Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian IQ...
...blabbering about the so-called Mafia, you do not explain that it could only exist either because the Italians have an above-average IQ or because the American authorities are very corruptible. Or for both reasons...
Renaissance. While imprisoned, Smith transformed himself from an unknown condemned man into a national figure. The onetime dropout honed his extremely high intelligence (IQ: 154) on college correspondence courses, legal texts and a renaissance sampling of books and periodicals. He also struck up a correspondence with Columnist William F. Buckley, who championed his cause in magazine and newspaper articles. Said Buckley of Smith last week: "His harrowing experience has made him wiser, and also a lot of others wiser-certainly myself...
...deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith, now 36, has fully employed his genius-level IQ (154). He has read scores of books, rushed through college correspondence courses and written two published books, one a novel (A Reasonable Doubt) and the other a blast at U.S. justice (Brief Against Death). Still proclaiming his innocence, he has also become a first-rate jailhouse lawyer, personally filing appeals...
...amalgam of drive and IQ earned her another scholarship?to Wellesley. The gangly figure ungangled and the crooked teeth began to straighten. The boys started turning around when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders...