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Word: iq (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military school. NBC's McKeever and the Colonel is about little boys in battle dress who wipe down their pack horses with windshield blades and sneak off to the movies during maneuvers. No one over ten with an IQ above 36 should care much for it, but it is good amusement for little boys and is on the air at 6:30 p.m. Also on NBC, Cartoonists Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera have now followed their prehistoric FHntstones with another family called The Jetsons, who live so far in the future that their school-aged kids learn terms like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Hunt, the producer-director team of Brothers Terry and Denis Sanders proves that a low budget is no bar to fine film-making if it is backed up with a high IQ, high art, and high purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The War Lover | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Dickens . . . He's Fenster), and Stanley Holloway as a British butler on the staff of an American family (Our Man Higgins). The producers of The Flintstones have a new family called The Jetsons, who live one century in the future. Mrs. Jetson has a high-IQ vacuum cleaner that can see, think and maneuver on its own. It dumps its load under the carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Coming Season | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...convicts were Frank Lee Morris, 35, and brothers John Anglin. 32, and Clarence Anglin, 31. With an IQ of 133,* ;Morris was undoubtedly the trio's mastermind-and to escape from Alcatraz he had need for real, if perverted, intelligence. The island got its name-Isla de los Alcatraces, meaning Isle of the Pelicans - from the 18th century Spaniards, and only pelicans have ever been free to come and go easily. At one time Alcatraz held military prisoners; later it became a domicile for such eminent civilians as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Many have tried to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: The Tablespoon Trio | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...turned to flatworms (Planaria), regarded as the most primitive creatures capable of true "learning." In 150 to 250 lessons, the worms learned that the flashing on of an electric light meant that they should contract and brace themselves for an electric shock. With this Pavlovian conditional reflex, high-IQ flatworms heeded the light warning and contracted 23 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Worms, Men & Memory | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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