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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, close to 200 different tests are in use. They attempt primarily to gauge four abilities: verbal and numerical skills, spatial relations and reasoning. Of the four best-known tests (see chart), the Stanford-Binet is the closest to Binet's original; it takes as long as 1½ hrs., is administered to students individually, and results in a single IQ score. The Wechsler test, also given individually, reports an IQ score for both its verbal and nonverbal sections, as well as an overall figure. The Otis-Lennon, a group test, measures "general intelligence." (Sample question from the version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ever Became of Geniuses? | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Instead of a win-loss box score, however, the 1977 Crimson cross-country story should read like an injury chart, tallying Stein Rafto's never-ceasing knee troubles, and pointing out that Thad McNulty lost his hamstring, Noel Scid-more came down with pneumonia and Mark Meyer sprained his ankle...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: That Forgettable Season | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

...future years, but the House hiked them much higher and much faster. Someone earning $10,000 a year who now pays $585 for Social Security would pay $710 by 1987; someone making $42,600 and paying $965 today would be shelling out $3,024.60 by that same year (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Social Security: Up, Up and Away! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Anthropologists now believe that man's family tree (see chart) goes back to a primate called Dryopithecus, a true ape that appeared some 20 million years ago. Much later?by 14 million years ago?the Dryopithecus line had split into three branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

That is not reorganization; that is shirking our responsibilities. I do not think that is justified by having a clean organization chart...

Author: By Matthew D. Slater, | Title: Protecting the Poor: The Fight for the Senate Nutrition Committee | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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