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From first grade to college, and in industry and the military as well, the intelligence quotient is the chief U.S. measuring rod for separating the bright from the dull. But to a growing body of angry critics. I.Q. tests are unfair. They argue that too many teachers peg children by one I.Q. test. Yet many of the challenges -typically, picture puzzles, number games or scrambled sentences-do not measure native intelligence so much as cultural advantages such as familiarity with vocabulary and material objects. Thus I.Q.s. instead of being fixed for life, can be raised by training. Then...
Early penicillins were active mainly against the berry-shaped microbes or cocci, such as streptococci, staphylococci and pneumococci. But they were ineffective against most rod-shaped bacteria. And most of them had two other draw backs: they were so quickly destroyed by digestive acids that they had to be injected directly into the bloodstream, and they were destroyed by the enzyme penicillinase. which is produced by resistant strains of staphylococci...
...McKinley was not yet ready for Australia's canny, flame-haired Rod ("The Rocket") Laver, 22, seeded second. Laver was in danger of becoming Wimbledon's perennial bridesmaid: two years ago he lost the final to Peru's flashy Alex Olmedo, now a pro; last year Fraser beat him. This time Laver made it, and in only 55 minutes. With the score tied 3-3 in the first set, Laver broke through McKinley's service, won nine out of the next ten games for a commanding 6-3, 6-1 lead. He let up briefly...
...Writer Rod Serling recalls: "Zugsmith called me into his office once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors...
...tall, active man as heavy with honors as with years (82) lolled in a wrought-iron chair on the breezeway of an apartment in Naples, Fla. last week and fiddled with a 10½-ft. cane fishing rod. Peering through the thick glasses he has needed since an operation last year for cataracts, he fussed with the black and yellow flies' that he had tied himself. He ruminated for a moment, then said: "I'm glad I won't be there. It would be embarrassing...