Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Mike's IQ was too high to be tested meaningfully, he placed ninth among 3,400 M.S.U. students who took a comprehensive natural-science exam, was in the top 10% of doctoral candidates on a graduate-student screening test...
Most parents have the children's extra fingers amputated when they are a few months old. The children show no mental retardation or IQ loss. And they probably fare better in the closed Amish community than in the less tolerant world .outside...
...range to talk by staging mock employment interviews and playlets that become psychodramas of family problems. Then he makes them write, often by getting them to describe recorded music ranging from Aaron Copland to Jelly Roll Morton. One girl entering Holbrook's class with a reported IQ of 76 turned out a long, sophisticated lovers' dialogue that John O'Hara would have approved...
Despite his near-genius IQ of 142, gangling, bespectacled George John Gessner, 28, had never managed to leave much of a mark anywhere. Last week he finally succeeded, but the mark turned out to be black. In a Kansas City, Kans., federal district court, Gessner was found guilty of selling information on U.S. nuclear weapons to the Russians, thus became the first person convicted under the espionage provisions of the 1954 Atomic Energy...
Forger Turner, who used to be Clarence Gideon's neighbor at Florida's Raiford state prison, has been the brains (IQ 140) behind more than 100 would-be Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court...