Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...blind. At age 14, he enters a schoolboy contest, and, while officials look on in disbelief, he flips a football 63 yds. He soon becomes a star high school quarterback, rushing from practice each day to work long hours as a gas-station attendant and grocery-store clerk. A scout from a big college watches the hero passing and shouts: "Lookit the ball! Lookit where the ball is! Right on the chest every time!" The hero wins a scholarship to a big college and, overcoming injuries and a serious operation, wins a starting assignment. A crisis arises when pro scouts...
...Jive. With this goal in mind, the national Scout organization has been working hard to make its troops more pertinent in the wilderness of the inner cities. Instead of learning how to map the countryside, city Scouts map out their subway and bus systems. Last year, in recognition of the often matriarchal nature of inner-city black society, Scouting executives broke a 59-year tradition by recruiting women as Scoutmasters and older girls as Scout leaders...
...B.S.A. has also faced up to the drug problem: last May, after Scouts at a conference in Denver admitted having experimented with drugs, a new pledge was devised in which Scouts forswear the use of drugs and promise to try to get non-Scout friends to make the same commitment...
Whether anyone in Scout headquarters envisioned troops such as the Brooklyn Stoners is another matter. Certainly their chant would startle some suburban Scoutmasters. "Stoners, Stoners, hard as we can be. Stoners, Stoners, for real. Dig on me. Never victims of a needle high. Hard work, cleaning up dirt and a forward strive, no jive. That's cur high...
...Scout brass have taken a pragmatic line. "The boy in the ghetto had no real basis for many of the things we talked about," says national Chief Scout Executive Alden Barber, "so we had to make the program acceptable...