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...member of Mensa, a group of 33,000 people who have IQ scores in the top 2%, Graham first revealed his project last summer in an interview published in the Mensa Bulletin. He was seeking to place his Nobel sperm with bright women who were healthy, under 35 and preferably married to a sterile man. Two dozen wom en applied, and those who were chosen received physical descriptions of the anonymous Nobel donors-plus Graham's own assessments. "A very famous scientist," he wrote on the description of one of the five available mail-order fathers (to whom...
...only point on which educators generally agree is that IQ tests do seem to be fairly reliable forecasters of future academic success. As for Reggie Jackson and other proud bearers of high IQs, they can still seek gratification in several exclusive societies. The international Mensa society accepts only applicants who can prove they scored in the top 2% on any standard IQ test (among its 32,000 fellows: Isaac Asimov and F. Lee Bailey). The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry is even more select: its members, who now number more than 100, must rank in the 99.9 percentile...
...miscellaneous jottings and parodies are as hilarious as Love and Death. Allen offers a menagerie of mythical beasts: the Great Roe has "the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...
...meeting's three main speakers spoke of the Negro leader in glowing terms. Dr. Kweku Mensa Akude of the Ghanaian mission to the U.N. called DuBois "one of the giants of this century...
Applicants must score about 150 on the self-administered Cattell Intelligence Test to be admitted into Mensa. For $3 the Selection Committee sends the result of the test, whether...