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...this mass of Black people began to move out the park and down the hill. On the sidewalk to the left, a Boy Scout troop--little white boys--marched up the hill. Standing over the whole scene, on the wall surrounding the park, a seven-year-old Black manchild raises his small bony fist as high...
...actual landscape. The West was not only a place but a state of imagination, which could invest almost any tract of virgin country between the Appalachians and the Rockies with a kind of epic innocence: nature unspoiled, inhabited by prelapsarian man. One itinerant painter, Worthington Wittredge, met the legendary scout Kit Carson in Santa Fe in 1866. "Nature had made a deep impression on this man's mind," Wittredge observed, "and I could not but think of him standing alone on top of a great mountain far away from all human contact, worshiping in his way a grand effect...
...Yale scout once wrote in his report: 'Harvard is a team that can be depended upon to play the percentages.' Now his critics said: Well, he's too aloof; he doesn't get close enough to the players. He wins because he has good material...
...Scout's Honor...
...Washington, public and Government relations staffers-including Dita Beard-gather news and help make it. For example, a former foreign service officer combs the State Department for information, and several former members of congressional staff committees scout out newsy morsels on legislation. Says News Director Horner, who spent 30 years in journalism, much of it with the Washington Star: "We provide an early warning system for anything that the corporation or its subsidiaries might be interested in." Vice President William R. Merriam, member of an old, socially prominent Washington family, gives ITT what all its money could...