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Marks's final decision-to hold the hearing anyway-is no great surprise. What is refreshing is Author Mandel's subtly shaded exploration of questions so often answered in Boy Scout black and white: Can anyone be responsible to himself and to an organization at the same time? If a choice is forced, is it more important to help individuals or to see that society works properly...
When spacecraft are fired from Cape Canaveral, recovery of the segment that returns to earth often becomes a full-dress Navy spectacular. Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments. But such shows are so costly that they are attempted only when the cargo that comes back from space is especially important. Most of the Cape's missiles and satellites deliver all their information by radio and are abandoned when they...
Last week Kerner chose the unusual forum of a Boy Scout executives' meeting (a retired major general in the National Guard. Kerner is also a Boy Scout supporter, recently hiked 22 miles to open a Scout trail) to announce his boldest decision so far: he wants to slash state welfare spending, possibly by as much as 35%. to get by until the legislature meets in January. Welfare costs absorb one-fifth of the general fund, have been running some $4,000,000 a month above their allotment. Kerner wryly concedes that this cut maybe "politically unpopular." "Indefensible...
...through the microphones. Apparently the porpoises located the barrier and did not like it. While still 400 yds. away from it, they moved over into shallow water and gathered in a tight little school. Then one of them separated from the group and cruised along the buoys. When the scout returned, a burst of whistling came through the microphones. Then another porpoise swam out to examine the barrier and returned for a session of whistling. At last the group left shallow water, passed cautiously through the barrier and disappeared up the channel. What the porpoises said to each other...
...obvious remedial approach is to provide a substitute adult medal with whom boys with unacceptable fathers son identity--a Boy Scout leader, Big Brother, athletic director, a man interested in various hobbies who in addition has the gift of understanding and love of human beings. But such a person would be in a better position to deal effectively with a boy if he know something of his traits and their orientation...