Education: A Challenge for Larry

The lean youngster has been in trouble before. But only since last fall has eleven-year-old Larry McMahon really been a storm center in school. He runs through corridors, gets in fights, has flatly refused to obey Principal George E. Goodwin of his school in Freeport, Me. What's more, his marks are below class average. The startling basis of Larry's troubles: an IQ of 172, a score made by only about three children in 10,000.

Out of school, Larry skis, plays softball and basketball, devours science fiction, plays a canny game of chess. But in...

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