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...tests, agrees Charles O. Ruddy, associate superintendent of schools in Boston, give no clue to a student's "gumption quotient." Moreover, it is not uncommon to find an error of ten points or more in many IQ scores. For example, a child with 120 may not necessarily be brighter than one with 110 or dumber than one with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing: The Growing Unimportance of IQs | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

This week Yovicsin may still be worried, but prospects are considerably brighter at the weak positions. One reason is the long-predicted but only recent switch of sophomore quarterback Ric Zimmerman to cornerback...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: QB Zimmerman Shifted to Cornerback | 9/30/1965 | See Source »

...sized chair and walked away with it stuck to the seat of his pants, puffed madly at Dunn's butt-sized cigarettes, and generally behaved in outrageous taste. But somehow by the show's close, against the dull grey background of his colleagues, Moron Maxwell Smart seemed brighter than anybody. And funnier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Overstuffed Tube | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

Cynthia, a Sarah Lawrence College graduate, who with her composer husband will make $100,000 in royalties this year, contends that message songs have taken hold because "the kids are much brighter now, a little more In. They really want to rebel, and maybe we can help them as human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...Shastri gently chided the opposition for offering "routine" motions of censure - last week's was the third in 14 months. Shastri added, "We are passing through fire. I would only like to say this, that the government that is passing through fire will come out of it much brighter and much stronger. It is this government that will deliver the goods." When the vote was taken, the censure motion lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Passing Through Fire | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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