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While this lapse--and others--results either from myopia, misinformation, or verbal hysteria, the handling of the actual events of the assassination and the assassin is more disturbing. The author's explanation is smug. The Warren Commission's most controversial theory--that one bullet hit both Kennedy and Gov. Connally--is not challenged. Despite Connally's recollection that the first shot did not hit him, Manchester writes "it had passed through...Connally's back, chest, right wrist, and left thigh, although the Governor, suffering a delayed reaction, was not yet aware of it." Certainly Connally may be wrong and Manchester...
...median College Board Scores for the class are 680 in verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...
...correlation between intelligence and emotional illness, Dr. Nicholai used predicted rank list (prl) as his measure of intelligence. (The Admissions Office figures a prl for each entering student, taking into consideration his secondary school rank in class, the average of his College Board achievement scores, and his College Board verbal aptitude score...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...
...gauges of intelligence produced the same results, however. The higher the prl or the verbal aptitude, the higher was the incidence of dropping out for psychiatric reasons, he found. (About 35 per cent of the dropouts in the sample were diagnosed at UHS as having a specific psychiatric problem...