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Chezzie Jordan, 16, and Michael Clepper, 18, Farragut Outpost...
Ball on a Toothpick. Chezzie and Michael were nearly dropouts from Farragut High School. But then they enrolled at Farragut Outpost, a school for potential dropouts run by the Better Boys Foundation, a kind of settlement house on the West Side. Says Chezzie: "At Farragut, you ain't learning nothing. You go out and walk around the hallways, and they catch you and bar you from school. Up here at Outpost, you come here because you want to learn. Instead of failing you, if you do work and it's not passing, you do it again until...
...promulgated" Elbert Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia" to the crew, instituted daily inspections, held a series of "all hands aft" services, where he quoted from Admiral Farragut and Stonewall Jackson. Since the Vance would be involved in Operation Market Time, the Navy's screening of Vietnamese coastal junk and sampan traffic for Viet Cong infiltrators, Arnheiter also insisted on a refresher course in small arms, ordered the purchase of a $950 speedboat from the ship's recreation fund. Though the 20-knot boat was supposedly to be used primarily for off-duty water skiing and swimming...
WORLD BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Actor Jimmy Stewart, who holds scouting's highest award of the Silver Buffalo among his many accomplishments, narrates the 12th International Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho. This special focuses on six scouts, representative of the 13,000 boys from nearly 100 countries who journeyed to the camp...
...says something about the national character that Americans have always had only tempered admiration for the men of strictly military exploits. John Paul Jones and Farragut rise from the history books as authors of heroic slogans, but hardly as full-fledged heroes. Besides, there is a strong prejudice in favor of the gallant loser and the persistent defender of a lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American...