ORGANIZATIONS: Bobby-Sox Convention

American girls start smoking when they are too young and use too much makeup. They also dress "kinda sloppy." These are the opinions of 13-year-old Barbara May, convening with 250 other teen-age girls from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Kansas last week in Denver.

The conventioneers were Senior Girl Scouts. They listened earnestly to talks which covered world peace, juvenile delinquency, table manners and sex. They decided that the country's 1,000,000 Girl Scouts could raise $250,000 for foreign relief next year by giving up "a couple of candy bars." Barbara, one of the youngest...

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