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...power through terrorism, could not have hoped to achieve otherwise. American Jewish leaders lamented Israel's role, however indirect, in the killings. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had the same sardonic, if inaccurate, comment on the situation: "Begin makes Arafat look like a Boy Scout...
Like its namesake, the bald eagle, the Eagle Scout is something of an endangered species. Only an exiguous 2.5% of all Boy Scouts become Eagles, and the number of Scouts as a whole has dwindled. Yet be prepared for this statistic: the 1 millionth Eagle Scout, Alexander Holsinger, 13, made the grade last week. And it seemed perfectly fitting that he hailed from Normal, Ill. Even Normal Scouts, though, are rather more cosmopolitan than their earliest predecessors were in 1912. In addition to old standbys like rubbing two sticks together, today's Scouts must study things like the fine...
...wife, a couple of old Crimson teammates, and a professional scout who encouraged Pellegrini to give the pros a shot. "I had always thought about it, but after the layoff, I had my doubts," he said. The Jets were one of three teams willing to give him a chance, and he reported to their training camp last summer...
...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
...argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...