Word: mcvickers
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Jensen's more thoughtful critics concede some validity to this point. "Our educational systems," writes Geneticist Lederberg, "often neglect a child's strongest capabilities, and hold him back while focusing on his weaknesses." J. McVicker Hunt, a psychologist at the University of Illinois, agrees with Jensen that the child's first exposure to formal education is confining when it should be expanding. Says Hunt: "I am among those few who are inclined to believe that mankind has not yet developed and deployed a form of early childhood education (from birth to age five) which permits...
...answer was obvious. When water was pumped deep into the Pre-Cambrian rock around the bottom of the well, he said, it lubricated the surfaces of vertical fractures, allowing the rock faces to slide against each other, causing recurring tremors. The theory sounded good enough for Colorado Congressman Roy McVicker, who called for a full-scale scientific investigation. Beginning in December, the U.S. Geological Survey and four Colorado colleges and universities set up seismographs on the arsenal grounds; they recorded quakes while Army technicians systematically reduced both the volume and pressure of waste water entering the well, finally shutting...
...started out by whipping up divinity fudge on his mother-in-law's stove, got the idea of producing pastries in easy-to-heat foil pans; this year his Aunt Fanny's Baking Co. will sell $6,000,000 worth of sweet rolls. Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 35, who took a lump of wallpaper cleaner and made it into one of the nation's most popular toys, Play-Doh, is a millionaire. Recently he sold out his business and started a second career by entering the Harvard Divinity School...
...stove; with his profits, he branched into baking, saw the potential of marketing sweet rolls in easy-to-heat foil pans, this year will sell $6,000,000 worth of "Aunt Fanny's" sweet rolls to supermarkets, airlines and other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound for children. Although the toymakers told him it would never sell, he has built a $4,000,000-a-year business from his "Play-Doh." Says McVicker: "I guess I wasn't bright enough...