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Herschell Podge is a gifted child. He has an IQ of slightly more than 120, an enthusiasm for Shakespeare which survived high school senior English, and, if he's lucky, a handful of muddled aspirations--perhaps to go to college, perhaps, someday, to "change the world" in some small way...
Herschell, of course, is a stereotype, one of thousands of America's gifted children turned out of high school incubators with a diploma, a pat on the back, perhaps a tear or two, and three or four years of intellectual stasis behind him. His are the narrow shoulders upon which...
Herschell probably won't get to Harvard, but if he does, he won't be prepared for college work. It will take a composition course like Gen Ed Ahf to teach him how to express himself, and three full-year educational gargantuas--in the humanities and the social and natural...
Because Herschell doesn't believe that learning is very important. In high school he's discovered that it doesn't take much more than monthly midnight oil to make straight A's, that there would be nobody around to guide him if he decided to do more than the regulations...
¶ Stevenson last week completed seven canned five-minute TV spots for a series called The Man from Libertyville, which for three days turned his farm into a studio. When a 20-man film team arrived with a 3,000-lb. dolly, he complained: "That crew is much too large...