In a school classroom in Lubbock, Texas one afternoon this month, 17 teenagers gravely went through a ritual familiar to Boy Scouts the world over. After chorusing the Scout oath (". . . I will do my best ... to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight"), they settled down to an afternoon of studying the silent signals used on hikes. What distinguished the meeting was the fact that few of the boys were likely to put into practice what they learned in the classroom: they were all members of a troop of physically and mentally handicapped Scouts.
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