Word: platt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genetic consequence, reports Physicist John R. Platt in the University of Chicago magazine Context, is a zooming output of high-IQ children. "These marriages are now producing five or ten times the total number of 150s, for example, that we would get from perfectly random marriages in the normal population," where IQ averages...
With its dozen divisions and subsidiaries, including Brooklyn's New York Dock Railway and the Platt & Munk children's-book publishing house, Askanase's Dunhill now has sales of about $25 million. But the firm is much bigger than that; it is the largest stockholder (46%) in the money-manufacturing American Bank Note Co., also owns 54% of A. G. Spalding, which sold $58.5 million worth of sporting goods last year...
During that interview Asseyev, who had been studying in the Social Relations department since September, reportedly said he had jumped head first from a window in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Platt at 369 Harvard...
...cluttered with the no doubt essential references to Kennedy family gags and Soviet impulses to claim all inventions as their own. So they often do. Carter Wilson, who wrote the book, wants to make an invariably temperate and reasonable liberal under fire sound exciting, a difficult job, and Geoffrey Platt struggles hard to spread his unruly paste of comedian's chatter far enough to fill out a major role. Platt is clever...
...good crop of freshmen coming up completes the cross country team's rather auspicious picture for next fall's campaign. Yardling captain Eddie Meehan won a good percentage of his races this year including the freshman Big Three--in this case by almost 200 yards. Mike Platt took a third in the same race, edging out fourth-place teammate Jeff Peck. All three will be strong contenders for positions among the top twelve next year...