Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT: Sir, I can't tell you how pleased I am. I mean, my high school average is 65, I got straight Ds in mathematics, confuse the Norman Conquest with Dday, have a sub-average IQ, and got turned down by every other college in America. Yet in spite of all of this, you've accepted...
...account, Bailey has an IQ of 170, though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and went into the Marine Corps as a jet fighter pilot did he find his vocation. Since lawyers are not required in most military trials, Bailey was able to become legal officer for 2,000 Marines at Cherry Point, N.C., and he tried more than 200 cases. With credit for his time in service...
Tawdry Test. Last week the New York Court of Appeals faced all those possibilities in a significant decision rejecting retroactivity. Appellant Charlie Mae McQueen, 50, a domestic with an estimated IQ of 84, was arrested after a laborer was found stabbed to death in Hempstead, N.Y. Given a 20-year-to.-life sentence in 1964, Miss McQueen appealed on three grounds: >The police violated her right to counsel at the station house when they barred her daughter-her only "counsel." > The police coerced her confession by not telling her that her victim was dead -and falsely claiming that he would...
...schools and has newer textbooks but is less likely to have modern scientific equipment or competent teachers. The Negro needs good teachers even more than whites because of greater deprivation in his family background. Eighth-graders in Negro slum schools, for example, commonly read at sixth-grade levels. The IQ of the average Harlem pupil drops from 90.6 in the third grade to 87.7 in the eighth grade. An extraordinary 67.5% of all Negroes fail the armed forces' pre-induction mental tests (v. 18.8% of the whites...
...education writer for the Birmingham News was not far off when he wrote recently of a mythical district whose 1965 desegregation plan "would admit a Negro child to a white school in 1975, providing that the child brushed its teeth immediately before coming to school every day, had an IQ of 185 and was examined thoroughly each morning by the school nurse to determine if it had contracted venereal disease during the night...