Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong in science and math, is geared to the area's aviation-electronics complex (Ryan Aeronautical, General Dynamics). S. D. boasts 26 major labs, hopes to get a nuclear reactor. Last year it had half the physics majors in the state-college system. The average freshman IQ: 120-125. The faculty Ph.D. rate: 63%. By 1970 S.D. expects 25,000 students. Says President Malcolm Love, onetime boss of the University of Nevada: "Though we are called a college, we are in deed and in fact a university...
...township's youngsters are not without promise. Not long ago one of them turned up with an IQ of 140. But Carver School's Principal Adelaide Long has her troubles. A cinder-block monstrosity, the school bears knife scars from floors to ceilings. Insurance companies have given up on the windows: last year the kids broke $3,000 worth, and this year Principal Long is converting to plywood...
...Roberts fanned fast-talking admissions men throughout the Midwest and the East. He freely discounted freshman fees and even more freely solicited flunkees from other colleges. He welcomed high school graduates in the bottom half of their classes, and took some who stood dead last. Almost anyone with an IQ of 100 is now a shoo-in-and 90 will...
...sprawling, ten-wing stucco structure outside Vacaville in Central Valley houses the reception-guidance center where all male felons convicted in California's northern 47 counties are studied for six to ten weeks. No treatment is given here, but all the men get exhaustive testing (IQ, aptitude, personality, "violence potential"). Mainly on the psychologists' advice, the state Department of Corrections then decides what prison to send them to-a maximum-security pen or a relatively open...
Gentlemen, I love and like you, Caring little for your IQ...