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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...advantaged" families. In affluent suburbs, 25% of all youngsters score 125 or above on IQ tests. In poor neighborhoods, only 6% do so. The reason is partly that IQ tests, though aimed at measuring intelligence rather than learning, necessarily reflect "normal" exposure to books, conversation and even material gadgets. Without such riches, the bright slum kid seems to get dumber as he grows older. Schools treat him accordingly. With a dwindling sense of worth, he accepts the verdict and quits school...
...Monroe affair with Co-Star Yves Montand. Purring that he was "amazed and flattered," and full of assurance that he would never toss his eleven-year marriage to Actress Simone Signoret "overboard for one performance," Montand did make one Gallically candid revelation: "Marilyn is a simple girl, without any guile," he said. "I once thought she was sophisticated, like some of the other ladies I have known. Had Marilyn been sophisticated, none of this ever would have happened...
...search of his star, Director Malle interviewed hundreds before settling on Catherine Demongeot, now 10, a Parisian house painter's daughter who, as film legend naturally had it, was the only applicant to come without her mother and by subway. Somehow, she learned her scatological dialogue and emerged from the unusually rich experience unscathed-except for the fact that she fell in love with her director...
Author Koestler, born a Jew but now a "seeker after truth" without religious affiliation, reports: "I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European." He descended from his plane into the fetid air of Bombay-"I had the sensation that a wet, smelly diaper was being wrapped around my head"-and picked his way through a series of visits with what he calls "contemporary saints." There was white-bearded Vinoba Bhave, marching through India in tennis shoes, seven days a week, year after year, persuading the rich to give their land...
...required by Soviet protocol, the first scientist Gushchev and Vasiliev interviewed was Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (TIME cover, June 2 1958) "We must learn to dream," he said. "We do not always care to dream, nor are we always capable of dreaming, but without dreams, prospects do not exist and without dreams man, the scientist included, is halted in his progress...