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Jonathan occasionally sounds like a Boy Scout leader, a jet-fighter pilot and St. Paul, but, at least in Part 1, he is really just the gull next door. He yearns to learn to fly better and faster than any other gull. His mother urges him to act like the other gulls and eat better ("Son, you're bone and feathers!"). His father tells him that life is hard. Jonathan can't help himself. He keeps practicing highspeed dives but fails to pull out properly because of his long wings. Temporarily, he gives up: "I am a seagull...
...weekly deadlines and Spivak's indefatigable dedication to the program. "He wakes up with his motors racing," says Spivak's key aide, Associate Producer Betty Dukert. "When he takes a vacation," observes a friend, "it's likely to be a Governors' Conference, so he can scout the crop while he 'relaxes...
...Europe, 32,000, a full third of them made by European firms using their own technology. The "brain drain" appears to have been plugged, and there have even been signs of a reversal. Unemployment among U.S. engineering specialists in the past few years has prompted many to scout for jobs abroad...
Lobbyists labor under a presumption by the public that their craft generally thrives on the concealed mulch of bribes, kickbacks, favors and deals. Harvard, however, seems to have avoided such activities, and enjoyed almost a Boy Scout reputation among the Congressmen, lobbyists, and reporters contracted by The Crimson. Those asked whether Daly could be considered a lobbyist--of the clean sort, included under the 1946 umbrella definition as a person who accepts compensation which has the "purpose or intent to influence passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States"--answered as follows...
...first-aid skills have been dropped or oversimplified. Instead, the accent is on generalizations about leadership training, participatory democracy, and something called "personal communications skills." Fortunately, all the old down-to-earth lore can still be found in the Merit Badge pamphlets and, for $1.95, in the Boy scout Fieldbook. It is "the best value around," says none other than The Whole Earth Catalogue. ∎R.Z. Sheppard