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...Paul Dietz, a slender youth in wire-rimmed glasses, loves war games of all kinds-from World War II platoon fights to dungeons and dragons. Says he: "I like to look at the mistakes commanders made in the past, as an intellectual exercise." Colin Camerer has a more direct interest in combat, since he lists as his main concerns "business and power." He adds: "Someone's going to be making decisions, and frankly I want to be there." Eugene Stark, by contrast, has a more modest policy: "I try to appear as normal as possible. If you go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smorgasbord for an IQ of 150 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...shown promise in math. He asked them to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test normally given to college-bound high school students. The result: a group of seven boys scored well over 700 (out of a possible 800), a feat matched by only 5% of 18-year-old males. Besides Dietz, Camerer and Stark, the test also identified two other youngsters who are graduating from Johns Hopkins this year-Michael Kotschenreuther, 18, and Robert Addison, 19-as mathematically gifted. Stanley also helped other youthful math wizards, whom his testing turned up, get into other colleges. Among them: Eric Jablow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smorgasbord for an IQ of 150 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...future, most of the Johns Hopkins prodigies envision high-powered research careers following Ph.D. studies at-variously-the University of Chicago, Cornell, M.I.T. and Princeton. Three-Dietz, Stark and Kotschenreuther-have received National Science Foundation fellowships, prestigious grants awarded each year for advanced research. And Stanley is willing to bet on them all-using probability theory, of course-for "original contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smorgasbord for an IQ of 150 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...Jack Dietz Sherman Oaks, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Jerry Dietz of the New York Athletic Club narrowly defeated Harvardian Greg Stone in the elite singles competition, an affair in which Stone's mentor, Coach Parker, also participated. Stone and Tom Wood earlier that day placed second ahead of Dietz and Larry Klecatsky, both leading American oarsman, in the double sculls, which was won by Riverside Boat Club...

Author: By James D. Auran, | Title: Head Provides Racers Pleasure and Competition | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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