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...might decide that making exactly the same score is not important for all races and religions and come up with an Ethnic Success Quotient for tests based on validation studies of all the hyphenated groups we are going to study. Under such a system a Richmond-born-Episcopalian of English stock from a family with an income of $12,000 would be declared below average if his Binet score was below 120. A score of 100 would relegate him to success quotient oblivion as a low normal...
...Beaufort County, S. C. black children with worms might have a success quotient of 90 based on performance of adults from this sort of situation who somehow scrambled up the ladder. A black 100 score in this county would indicate a ESQ of potential genius...
Legman analyzes jokes in the light of their fear quotient. The fear buried in jokes about adultery, he contends, is that of homosexuality. There is an understood linkage between the cuckolded husband and his wife's traducer in the familiar story about the wife who admits to adultery while her husband was out of town. Husband: "Who was it, Finkelstein?" Wife: "No." "Cohen?" "No." "Shapiro?" "No." "What's the matter-none of my friends are good enough for you?" Concludes Legman: "In the relationship with the other man that is crucial to adultery, it is the triumph over...
Mashed potatoes (whiter than Snow White claims to be) in a rosebud border, green (with envy because they never get top billing) sugar peas plus a fat and sassy mushroom or two, French fried onion rings that speak for themselves, and a chopped green salad for your vitamin quotient...
Abortive Appearance. This season Meredith and Starr have had more than their share of companions in pain. Indeed, the outcome of the 1968 pro football season seems to be predicated on the survival quotient of quarterbacks. As of last week, no fewer than 16 signal callers in the two leagues have been sidelined with injuries for one or more games. Many of the injuries, like Starr's, could hardly have been prevented. Pete Beathard of the Houston Oilers (record: 3-5-0) was rushed to the hospital last month for an emergency appendectomy, while winless Philadelphia's Norm...