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...equally noteworthy positive assets, which are not always realized. It is virtually the only game that is just as stimulating when played without money stakes as with them. It is truly egalitarian in that social status or wealth or brawn can confer no advantage. Neither can a high IQ. In fact, a New Jersey psychiatrist-chess player, Dr. Henry A. Davidson, has applied the theory of the idiot savant to chess and concludes that it would be possible for a blockhead to excel in the game, but adds tersely: "He usually doesn...
...common for school systems to administer IQ tests and then confine the low scorers to "special" classes for the mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed. In San Diego, attorneys representing 20 black and Mexican-American student plaintiffs argued that the city's Unified School System had no right to make such placements on the basis of standard IQ tests designed for white middle-class students. Retesting by an outside psychologist indicated that all but two of the children were actually of at least average intelligence and the exceptions were borderline cases. The school district did not admit fault...
...Posts and Telecommunications, his first Cabinet job. Soon after his appointment, he consented during a radio interview to demonstrate his throaty singing style by crooning a ballad in praise of gambling, which is outlawed in Japan. The party's old guard gasped, the newspapers dubbed Tanaka "Minister Without IQ," but the performance drew high ratings from the general public...
This is a unique institution called the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest 16-to 18-year-old male science students (average IQ: 130-plus) gather for a free three weeks of serious talk and relaxation. West Virginia originally founded the camp in the Monongahela National Forest, about 50 miles from the nearest sizable town, partly to enhance the state's backward image (annual cost: $80,000). After ten summers, the 15-acre camp has become a nationally respected meeting ground for young talent. IBM lends computer equipment; the nearby National Radio Astronomy...
This ability to merchandise his misery provided Allen's escape from the ghetto. His IQ may have been astronomical, but the figures on his exams at Midwood High School bottomed out below C level. "It was a school for emotionally disturbed teachers," he says. "I failed to make the chess team because of my height." Lines like that fractured Allen Konigsberg's fellow juniors. For laughs-and a few bread crumbs-the class clown sent them on to columnists under an assumed name...