Word: troop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guts. Indeed, the Hemingway-Ruark axis of hairy-chested literary Tarzans may be somewhat miffed at the casual kiss-off Tiny Cloete gives their favorite outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain that she is out to slay the myth of the strong, infallible White Hunter...
...secret, high-priority order winging to one of his subordinates. It concerned a dwindling garrison at Gibraltar. Legend has long held that when the last of the famed Barbary apes leave Gibraltar, the British will soon follow. With the pack reduced to seven, Churchill was taking no chances. A troop transport was dispatched to North Africa to get more apes...
...Algeria itself, the month's casualties were the highest yet. Premier Faure promised Governor Soustelle a 60,000-troop reinforcement. Rebels now had control of thousands of square miles, including a 50-mile strip of coastline. Out of fear of the rebels, or in support of them, the Moslem municipal councilors in the cities of Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Philippeville and Bone resigned, setting off a mass flight from office among 5,000 Moslem officials in Algeria...
Tailored Program. The Lubbock troop was organized in 1953, after the mother of a 13-year-old retarded boy went to the local Boy Scout office with the suggestion that scouting instruction might give her son and others like him the sense of belonging that they so desperately needed. A group of Texas Tech students who were members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity of former Boy Scouts, agreed to take over the instruction of a group of handicapped youngsters. Lucian Thomas, a local jeweler who had been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years, sponsored the troop...
Earned Advancement. The instruction takes longer than it would with non-handicapped boys. In the two years since the troop was founded, all the boys have earned Tenderfoot ratings. A few are Second Class Scouts. The most significant thing about their accomplishment, Scoutmaster Alan Conley believes, is that all of them have genuinely earned their advancement: the program has been modified, but not simplified, for their benefit. "We have learned," says Conley, "that these boys crave responsibility. Before, they were always treated like babies. No one gave them responsibility because it was felt they did not want it. Now they...