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...focuses on is Cotter Williams, 15, who hated the "Whips" (white power structure); when the $16 a month he made from his paper route was deducted from his mother's relief check, Cotter simply dropped the route. His half-sister Baby Doe, 16, was a swinging streetwalker whose IQ (according to welfare and school records) had fallen from 117 to 82 since the third grade. Warner O'Seyre, a Negro schoolteacher who knew many of the ghetto kids, tried to cool the riot once it broke; yet to the raging Negroes of the ghetto, he seemed half Whitey...
...scheduled programs are still as vapid as ever. Mindless game shows and cheery-teary soapers dominate daytime television. Prime-time TV (7:30-11 p.m.) is hardly more satisfactory. The top-rated Nielsen shows for 1966-67 are either tired adventure series such as Bonanza and Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms on the order of Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched. The only steady programs that offer the hope of entertainment are Old Standbys Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice in the schedules...
...Irving' Ruark, and that woman, 'Irving' Rand." His own work, he adds, without false modesty, is demanding enough. Anyone else could do it, provided, of course, "that all your life you have read at least two or three good books a week, that you have an IQ of 125-plus, that you are in good enough health to endure at least 10,000 sedentary hours, that your opinions are not rehashed fragments of what you have read and listened to, and that you are mare intent on telling' it true than selling it once...
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...