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Higher IQ. Such achievement is explained in part by evidence that Catholic students rank above the average on IQ tests. The median for 26,000 Catholic elementary-school students was 109, compared with a normal 100 for the general population. This, in turn, reflects the fact that Catholic schools, despite a 129% growth in enrollment in the 17 years before the study started in 1962, are still selective in their admissions policies. Less than one-half of eligible Catholic children attend parochial schools. Moreover, because few Catholic schools offer much in the way of vocational training, they appeal primarily...
...reader must wade through yards and yards of such silly stuff to find anything really worth rereading: a devastatingly unchivalrous-and perceptive-examination of Mary McCarthy's The Group, an equally perceptive report on the 1964 Republican National Convention, a quick survey of contemporary fiction that should rank Mailer among the better critics today...
...Army put her in the Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section. She has a chestful of medals and citations, and she insists on being called colonel-the highest rank a woman can reach. Says she: "I've earned...
...health and welfare plans, provides the union with what the airlines fought longest and hardest to avoid: an automatic further pay increase of up to 60 an hour if the cost of living keeps rising at about its present pace. With that, the mechanics will not only keep their rank as the nation's top-paid industrial production workers (runners-up: oil workers, at $3.37 an hour), but will also collect more than civilian pilot instructors at U.S. Air Force bases, who average $3.60 an hour...
...Guide to the Orchestra, a kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...