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...Irwin I. Shapiro Cambridge, Mass...
Until now Henry Irwin, 62, a West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen...
From the day he entered first grade, blue-eyed Tommy Irwin was called a "behavior problem"-a disobedient pupil who did shoddy work. But after his third-grade teacher told the Irwins that their son had a "learning disability," they hired an educational psychologist who tested Tommy. The conclusion: Tommy was not too slow but too quick for the classroom routine. His IQ was a very elevated 169. "He was frustrated and bored to tears," observes his father, Attorney Ronald Irwin. Now the Irwins are suing Illinois' McHenry County School District for damages of $1 million, seeking a legal...
...child to educate its 220,000 handicapped, but only $40 per child for its approximately 70,000 gifted students. The disparity is largely due to the notion that the gifted will flourish on their own. But increasingly that view is being challenged by cases like that of Tommy Irwin...
...rejection was what led the Irwins to file suit. "It's sad that it had to come to this," says Ronald Irwin, "but years were going by and nothing was happening. For Tommy, it is already late." Indeed the Irwins soon received a supporting phone call from a teacher, herself the mother of a gifted child, who warned, "There is serious danger that such children can be permanently damaged by the time they are eight...