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...from the hitters, though, and left-fielder Mike Stenhouse leads that group. "Sten" ended up at .426 for the year, and .500 in league competition to win the Eastern batting title. Stenhouse, who went 23-for-42 at the end of the season, also had 36 RBIs and ten HRs, the latter tying Pete Varney's Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Starts Playoffs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Hitting stars for the Blue and Red included Eastern League home run leader Tom Olszack (five hrs), as well as offensive studs Dennis Carbach, Dave Miller, and Al Greenfield...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Hit Meat of League Schedule | 4/21/1978 | See Source »

Hrdy, who spent 1,500 hrs. observing langur behavior around India's Mount Abu from 1971 to 1975, documented the disappearances of 39 infants around the times of new male takeovers; she estimates that only half of all langurs survive infancy. While males shift constantly among groups, females usually spend a lifetime in one troop and cooperate in warding off danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animals That Kill Their Young | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...Cairo talks at a later stage. Instead, Vance found, the King was determined to remain an uncommitted moderating force, but would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view that Sadat's initiative would fail, that the Arabs were obliged to reject it on almost theological grounds, and that the "great wound" inflicted by Sadat's Jerusalem adventure would take time to heal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Menachem Begin's Big Blitz | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...close to 200 different tests are in use. They attempt primarily to gauge four abilities: verbal and numerical skills, spatial relations and reasoning. Of the four best-known tests (see chart), the Stanford-Binet is the closest to Binet's original; it takes as long as 1½ hrs., is administered to students individually, and results in a single IQ score. The Wechsler test, also given individually, reports an IQ score for both its verbal and nonverbal sections, as well as an overall figure. The Otis-Lennon, a group test, measures "general intelligence." (Sample question from the version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ever Became of Geniuses? | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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