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...nation's poor knew little of the Boy Scouts; often they had never even heard of the organization. Among Negroes, the percentage was 64%. "What we have to do," says National Council (and IBM) President Thomas J. Watson Jr., "is adjust without changing fundamental Scouting aims." To Pittsburgh-bred Joseph A. Brunton Jr., 63, chief Scout executive for six years, this means developing "skills and muscle" necessary for expanding into untapped neighborhoods...
...course, Schwarz probably would not bat an eye if Martinez spent $5,000 of the Giants' money. In addition to Marichal, he has supplied the National League with such stars as Atlanta's Felipe Alou, first in hits (67), second in doubles (11), third in runs (30); Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (Felipe's brother), the league leader in triples (7), and Manny Mota, who last week was leading the league in batting (.361). It is a tribute to Horacio's loyalty that all three were originally the property of the San Francisco Giants...
Spanish Not Allowed. It was no fluke, either-as Marichal proved by winning his next two starts, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 and the Milwaukee Braves 3-2. By the end of that first, abbreviated big-league season, his record was 6-2. The boy from Laguna Verde obviously knew how to pitch in the big time: now all he had to do was learn how to live there...
There are some surprises in the full list of departmental ratings. Arizona's little-known anthropology faculty ranks high (twelfth), ahead of Minnesota and Washington; Pittsburgh's philosophy faculty ranks eighth, ahead of Chicago and Stanford; Delaware's chemical-engineering program ranks fifth, ahead of M.I.T. and Caltech. Yet no university in the South or Rocky Mountain states has even one "distinguished" department; the Southwest and Plains states have only two: Texas in German and Minnesota in chemical engineering...
...Tennessee Plowboy" would have been run out of most Northern cities. But now, in an age of shifting population, country music has penetrated the metropolis in a big way, and no one has helped the cause or stands to profit more than Arnold. His recent appearances in Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Chicago have drawn big crowds, and his records are selling better than ever. For Arnold, that's saying something: with sales of 46 million records, he is one of the top ten bestselling recording performers of all time. And, as they still say down in Nashville ("Music...