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...Scout Handbook of the counterculture movement was The Last Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...appreciation showered down on all those he touched. "Thank you very much" was his standard line, and when he was particularly stimulated he said, "Thank you very, very much." He was a Rotarian without a red neck, and he was an Eagle Scout without self-righteousness. He was something new from the U.S. on the international scene...
...That Holt is some quarterback," observed the Yale scout in the press box. "He can do everything and he's not afraid to gamble. Right now he's the best quarterback in the Ivies...
...Haldeman tentatively tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and protégé, John Ehrlichman, into position as chief domestic-affairs adviser, the die was cast...
...organize his Administration before taking office. Thus strong criticism of Ford's style seems premature. The real test will be the substance of his decisions as his presidency unfolds. Former Presidential Press Secretary J.F. terHorst, now a columnist for the Detroit News, describes Ford as "a Boy Scout in the White House" and "a man with a nice-guy reputation." The President is also a man who, right now, is still understandably struggling to get a total feel for his office...