Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...west bank of the Wisconsin River and began to warm up an old-fashioned Ukrainian songfest. All of them (aged 7 to 20) were the sons and daughters of Ukrainian refugees living around Chicago. As dedicated members of a patriotic American-Ukrainian group called the Ukrainian Boy and Girl Scouts (no kin to the National Boy and Girl Scouts), they had looked forward all through the city's hard winter to the annual scout camp near Mauston...
Back at the camp, whistles suddenly skirled. The exercise was on. When the "rescue" party reached the designated ford and found no sign of George, the scout commanders assumed he had al ready reached the island and was waiting for help. Group Commander Rostyslaw Boykowycz, 20, halted his scouts and asked nonswimmers to raise their hands...
...nearest kitchen or Scout knife has saved many a life when used in emergencies to open the chest for massage of a stopped heart. But the method is risky. This week Johns Hopkins University researchers reported success in 50 cases with a faster and safer technique, suitable for use by laymen after a little training. The principle: closed-chest massage...
...length in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Syracuse. ¶ After his talent-loaded San Francisco Giants had lost three straight to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates and dropped four games behind, Owner Horace Stoneham fired long-suffering Bill Rigney as manager, brought in Tom Sheehan, 66, chief scout and onetime minor-league manager, with the cold promise that the job was his as long as the Giants...
...Scout's Honor. In Milwaukee, after receiving complaints of nondelivery from office colleagues to whom he had sold 48 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, Richard Polcyn checked with his daughter. Naomi, 12, was told: "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I quit the Scouts...