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...SCOUT HANDBOOK...
This month the leaders of BSA plan to change that with a new-look campaign aimed at enlisting at least one out of every three American boys in scouting. The push begins with the publication-on recycled paper-of the completely revised eighth edition of the official Boy Scout Handbook. Two changes are immediately apparent to the eye of an old Scout. Gone are advertisements for bicycles, fishing gear, .22 rifles and the first athletic supporter...
More surprising, the word Boy is missing from the title of the new book. "Frankly," says a Scout spokesman, "our surveys indicate that the word 'Boy' has almost gone into disrepute." The favored word among today's boys is "Man." So, getting with it, the Scout Handbook proclaims in its opening pages: "Man, Scouting is a ball!" Then, in a simple, caption-block text that meanders through idealized and racially integrated illustrations, the book goes on to demonstrate that Scouting has become a serious and complex business...
Died. Paul Goodman, 60, maverick social theorist whose bestselling Growing Up Absurd attacked societal foundations and became a handbook for the alienated young (see EDUCATION...
...Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors...