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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...
Soupy Scenario. The season's action series are ticketed for anyone from nine to 90-IQ, that is. The Green Hornet (ABC), concocted by the man behind Batman, is played straight. Only changes from the 1936-52 radio version are James Bond-type hardware and a bigger-beat theme song, blown by Al Hirt. There is nothing wrong with the show that cannot be cured by turning off the set. Tarzan (NBC) has a vaster menagerie than last season's high-rated jungle epic, Daktari, and just as soupy a scenario. Ron Ely is mesomorphic enough as Tarzan...
...Higher IQ. Such achievement is explained in part by evidence that Catholic students rank above the average on IQ tests. The median for 26,000 Catholic elementary-school students was 109, compared with a normal 100 for the general population. This, in turn, reflects the fact that Catholic schools, despite a 129% growth in enrollment in the 17 years before the study started in 1962, are still selective in their admissions policies. Less than one-half of eligible Catholic children attend parochial schools. Moreover, because few Catholic schools offer much in the way of vocational training, they appeal primarily...