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...formidable roll call notwithstanding, Scouting today suffers from an ill image. The very name-Boy Scout-is practically a synonym for sissy, goody-goody, square. "Be Prepared" has degenerated to a Tom Lehrer double-entendre; the descendants of Lord Baden-Powell are dimly imagined by contemporary cynics to be a rustic army of bug-eyed idealists. Scripture that commanded pious respect when the Boy Scouts were chartered by Congress 50 years ago now seems laughably quaint. "If you notice a Scout badge on a boy's coat lapel," the Boy Scout Handbook still bugles, "give him the Scout salute...
Still, he must go. Like most young men in his situation, Gary Wilson faces the Army at a time when he is still suspended somewhere between the campus and full manhood (in his room at home, his Eagle Scout badges are hung on a wall not far from his plastic-encased draft notice). One moment he will shrug boyishly about his draft call, expected in July, as a "necessary evil." Then he will turn studiedly philosophical, frowning heavily and puffing on a Raleigh cigarette as he says: "Most students I know are more worried about actually going into the military...
...Several times we asked when the announcement would come. A Buddhist Boy Scout told us in broken English to wait another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...Fleming told a group of labor editors, the President tiptoed into the kitchen late one night to raid the icebox. Just as he was digging into some tapioca pudding, the scraping of his metal spoon against the pan aroused Lady Bird, who must have the ears of an Apache scout. She chewed him out. Unrepentant, the President studied the problem for a while and then gave Fleming a short order: "Get me a wooden spoon...
What was afoot, it turned out, was a TIME cover, but there was much homework to be done. Writer Magnuson monitored more college classes in the East and Middle West, and early in the year the news bureaus were asked to scout the campuses in their areas and search out top teachers. In what is probably a journalistic exercise without precedent, scores of TIME reporters went back to school...