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...esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter-day commonplaces, such as 1) under equal environmental advantages, Negroes stack up well with whites in IQ tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern Greek is to an ancient Greek, 4) all blood is red, and it is uniform except...
...Storz in six years has run a $20,000 investment of his own, plus $30,000 from his father, into a $2,500,000 network. Last week, in his biggest deal to date, he paid $850,000 for Miami's WQAM and prepared to test Florida's IQ...
...living in or around New Haven. The youngsters, no delinquents, came from average middle-class or professional homes, were subject to no extraordinary pressures or handicaps beyond those involved in just growing up. In the institute's two rambling buildings, the Gesell staff gave them a battery of IQ, aptitude, physical and psychological tests. But Gesell relied mostly on interviews, not only with the children but with their parents, probed into everything-from the way a child might wriggle to his attitude towards God. The result: a readable and useful chronicle of the normal growing pains of what...
...Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average is somewhere around 140." (A classification amounting to "very superior.") To single out the elite of this exceptional group, M.I.T. and Caltech are looking for something beyond pure IQ. They want, said M.I.T. Vice President Jtflius Stratton, "boys with the passionate interest...
...riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ. Only when she learns that he is dying will she agree to marry him, and then only on condition that she become the beneficiary of Bruce's insurance policy. As the catcher's insurance agent as well as his friend (Wiggen's off-season job is selling policies...