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Sociologist Dane Archer cites Dr. Bell's deductive skill as an example of a subtle ability totally different from the verbal and mathematical capacities measured by standard IQ tests. He calls it social intelligence, or the knack of picking up nonverbal signals. In his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success...
...wants no part of it," says Admiral Robards of his mercenary friend). And David Selby is Dr. Seagram, a scientist who, somewhat inexplicably, learned enough at Cal Poly to both devise the laser shield and figure out how to find the Titanic. There is even a woman, Anne Archer, who plays a reporter for The Washington Star...
...Kane and Abel, Archer...
...Kane and Abel, Archer...
After playing a sweet young thing opposite Comedian John Ritter in this year's Hero at Large, sultry Anne Archer says she is sinking her teeth into a "character with bite." For Green Ice, a film about murder in the emerald trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look...