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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed it had. In a week of increasing violence, four more British soldiers and one policeman were killed by gunmen. Protestant youths hurled fire bombs into a bus carrying handicapped Catholic schoolchildren, three of whom were hospitalized with burns. Another crowd set fire to a Catholic school, and a Catholic mob exploded a bomb outside a Protestant youth club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: A Massive Wedge | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Herrnstein believes that a high I.Q., while not sufficient, is very definitely necessary for success in society. He cites the results of a massive 40-year test conducted by Lewis M. Terman, a Stanford psychologist. Terman tested over 1600 California schoolchildren between the ages of eight and twelve with I.Q.'s of 150 or over and kept track of their lives for 40 years...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/24/1971 | See Source »

Herrnstein believes that a high I.Q., while not sufficient, is very definitely necessary for success in society. He cites the results of a massive 40-year test conducted by Lewis M. Terman, a Stanford psychologist. Terman test over 1600 California schoolchildren between the ages of eight and twelve with I.Q.'s of 150 or over and kept track of their lives for 40 years...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

INMINES, ORE., the freeze has forced an end to the hot-lunch program for schoolchildren. To make up for higher food costs, Hines School District Principal Jim Red planned to raise lunch prices from 25? to 40?. Now that he cannot, the 298 kids in the district have to bring sandwiches from home, or else go hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Squeeze Of the Freeze | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Public health officials have concentrated their efforts on immunizing schoolchildren, who often transmit the rubella virus to pregnant women. Now the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is urging local authorities to turn their attention to the women themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Attack on Rubella | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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