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...standard IQ tests, agrees Charles O. Ruddy, associate superintendent of schools in Boston, give no clue to a student's "gumption quotient." Moreover, it is not uncommon to find an error of ten points or more in many IQ scores. For example, a child with 120 may not necessarily be brighter than one with 110 or dumber than one with...
Willing to Compete. The strongest stand against De Gaulle's uncommon policy comes from those who have most to gain from European union: France's farmers. Though De Gaulle purports to be pressuring the Market for a better deal for his farmers, many French agricultural leaders suspect that he is just using that as an excuse to curb the supranational features of the Common Market. The Market's Eurocrats last June offered to adopt a policy worth billions of dollars to French farmers, providing that De Gaulle acquiesced in greater powers for the Eurocrats, but he turned...
...task of covering the new war in Asia has, for U.S. publications, an uncommon advantage: it is possible to cover both sides. Yet that advantage carries with it a particular problem-melding the reports into a clear story that gives the whole picture. It is for just such a situation that TIME'S way of handling the news is particularly suited...
Tweaking Noses. Bennington's 360 students-all girls except for a few men, mostly in dance and drama-enjoy uncommon freedom (at a cost of $3,450 a year) on their airy 381 acres of rolling greenery. They are not formally graded. No specific courses or credits are required. With the guidance of a faculty counselor they can map their own path toward a degree. They have social freedom as well: they can leave their white clapboard houses any evening, stay out overnight, keep liquor in their cabinets, have men in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekends...
...stock worth well over $1,000,000. They, of course, showed fine timing and an expert instinct for opportunity. Through the careers of all the young millionaires runs a golden thread: they determined early in life to devote themselves to accumulating great wealth, and they pursued that goal with uncommon passion...