In Argentina last week scientists had discovered a new child prodigy, a nine-year-old chemical wizard named Jorge Fernández.
Son of a cunning and ambitious onetime ironworker, Jorge swept like a whirlwind through the first two grades of school in one month at Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fé, where he was born. Then his father took him out of school, bought textbooks, let Jorge go his own way. Three years ago the boy began to scribble strange, cabalistic signs. Father Santiago Fernández thought he had suffered a nervous breakdown from too much study. But a local doctor told him his son...
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