Word: galton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe lightweight boat of Coxswain Barbara Galton, stroke Dottie Kent, Lia Lent, Roxanne Malenbaum, Janet Gilmore, Chanan Tang, Martha Tullis, Meredith Beck and Katie McIntyre lost to the B.U. lightweights by nearly a length...
Diane Hackett, a La Grange, Ill., housewife, recently bought a live lamb for $10 and last weekend was headed for a farm where she intended to purchase a cheap goat. Mrs. Hackett is not after pets for her eight children; she plans to barbecue the goat. Lydia Galton of New York City recently performed the bloody job of slicing 100 Ibs. of liver; it was her turn to serve as distributor for the food co-op she and her neighbors have organized. In Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hollon have taken to growing wheat in their front yard and vegetables...
There are striking parallels in history to this combination of oppressive policy and "science" to back it up. Several of Herrnstein's sources, Francis Galton and Lewis Terman, were in the 1920s eugenics movement, which led to 30 states passing laws against interracial marriage and for sterilization of 10,000 of the "defective" in 24 states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could...
Directed by SILVIO NARIZZANO Screenplay by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON