Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perception of ABC's coverage of the story, which while not as dramatic, powerful, extensive or impactful as CBS's, was earlier and in our opinion certainly as decisive in bringing about the meetings. I willingly credited Walter Cronkite with a fantastic presentation and his usual high standard of journalism. I at no time accused him of trying to take credit. I said it was uncharacteristic of CBS News to project itself into a story by claiming credit for not only the interviews but also for bringing the historic meeting about...
...Elmer Davis and Edward R. Murrow, and wonders why radio seems to permit freer comment than television. But were the old ones really bolder? Salant doubts it. Murrow, he says, insisted on a fairness and objectivity clause in his contract; he departed only once from this self-imposed standard, when he persuaded CBS's top brass to let him make his famous televised attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...score of 100 is still the norm in today's tests, although none of them use Binet's quotient formula. Instead, since scores were found to distribute themselves along a bell curve-centered at 100-individual IQs are now measured in standard deviations along such a curve. In the tests, about 68% score between 85 and 115; less than 3% score below 70-or above 130. Because scores fluctuate widely in the high IQ range, researchers have scrapped the designation genius (once defined as 140 level or above). Now they prefer more subtle terms like superior and very...
...seem to be fairly reliable forecasters of future academic success. As for Reggie Jackson and other proud bearers of high IQs, they can still seek gratification in several exclusive societies. The international Mensa society accepts only applicants who can prove they scored in the top 2% on any standard IQ test (among its 32,000 fellows: Isaac Asimov and F. Lee Bailey). The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry is even more select: its members, who now number more than 100, must rank in the 99.9 percentile...
...automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development is quite useless...