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Meanwhile, Princeton psychologist Leon Kamin, inspired by the vehemence of the opposition to Jensen and Herrnstein, thoroughly reexamined all the data and studies on which the hereditarians had based their I.Q. evaluations. He discovered that the lynchpin of the Jensen-Herrnstein argument, the studies of identical twins reared apart, was utterly worthless. Absence of appropriate controls meant that the correlations could just as easily be attributed to environmental as to hereditary influences. The only study of identical twins which claimed to have controlled for environmental factors, that of English psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, proved to be a classic scientific fraud...
Lowest Point. Schultze will need his rapport to maintain a grip on policy. Over the years, the CEA's power has fluctuated wildly according to the performance of its chief and his relationship with the President. Chairman Leon Keyserling so angered Congress by his partisan support of Truman Administration policies that President Eisenhower let Congress put the council out of business briefly in 1953. Walter Heller played a dominant role in shaping the economic policies of the Kennedy and early Johnson Administrations, but President Nixon listened far more to his Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than...
Incidentally, the Yale-Dartmouth game made it into your living room only because St. Lawrence coach Leon Abbott did not want his "overmatched" Larries to be seen on TV against powerhouse BU. The natural result of that move was a big upset of one of the nation's top ten teams...
...poetic meters, hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per hour in a 50 kilometer-per-hour zone will probably help drivers adjust to the new system. And a few changes will be happy ones. Leon Jaroff, editor of the Science and Medicine sections, reminds us that "if your weight is 166 lbs., the scale will read only 76 kilograms. That somehow makes it less disturbing...
...role was unpopular in the South. His aim in advising Vandiver, he said, was to keep the public schools open, rather than abandoned ("Open on a segregated basis," scoffed the N.A.A.C.P.'S Clarence Mitchell). Bell won a resounding endorsement as being professionally qualified from former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Some Southern blacks also came to his defense...