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...SCOUT HANDBOOK...
...toasted marshmallows have gone over the dam since the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910. Like many other institutions that have served the nation with pride and distinction during a simpler era, the Boy Scouts have an image problem. By some granny knot of fate, the inner city has come to challenge the resourcefulness of democratic frontier ideals. But the phrase "Boy Scout" still evokes vignettes of white suburban striplings rubbing sticks together in church basements...
...named Abel Tiffauges. He is one of those tiresome people who see mysterious significance in every little occurrence. He is variously a Parisian auto mechanic, a keeper of military carrier pigeons, a P.O.W. assistant to the chief forester at Hermann Goring's hunting preserve, and a youth scout for a Nazi eugenics program. Each of these jobs gives Tiffauges a chance to spread his mythic wings. As Abel, he recalls...
Many of the other men who once dominated the game make Bobby Fischer look like an Eagle Scout. Arrogance? World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1927-35, 1937-46), a Soviet expatriate renowned for his slashing attacks, was a Nazi collaborator who wrote a series of articles claiming that Jews spoiled the purity of chess. Once he appeared at the Polish border and declared: "I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. I have a cat named Chess...
...under a spreading shade tree, stuck up a crayoned POT PEOPLE'S PARTY sign, and soon found that they had the largest group in the park. Exclaimed one young Democratic worker who had spent months planning for the expected crunch of street people: "It looks like a Boy Scout jamboree...