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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1968
Page
2
After two months of screening and interviews the Scottsdale School Board selected Eugene G. Burnkrant as superintendent. The board lauds his broad education background and experience plus an inquisitive, practical approach and readiness to embrace new ideas.
New York report says Soviet Deputy Minister Nikai Bykov announced Moscow to New York air service could start next month. Pan Am would fly non stop in about nine hours and 15 minutes with a 707-320, while Aeroflot would continue Montreal stops until demand justifies nonstop Moscow NY flights. Prices listed include 548 excursion, 730 economy, 1109.50 first class. caviar and vodka offered.
The article notes rising defection and unrest in Warsaw Bucharest and Prague with Romania leaving a Budapest conference, Czechoslovakia toppling Novotny and allowing speech, and Warsaw protests signaling weaker Moscow dominance yet satellites remain within the Moscow orbit.
Rockefeller’s reentry as a presidential contender follows Johnson’s non candidacy pledge. Sen. Morton pushes Rockefeller’s bid, eyeing Kennedy as a potential Democratic nominee and Nixon as a possible Kennedy-Nixon rerun. Hughes joins as strategist, but his dovish Vietnam draft fuels GOP tensions and Rockefeller’s fragile revival hinges on polls and primaries.
The author argues naval supremacy by ships is outdated and airplanes and missiles dominate. Cites Mitchell’s 1921 Ostfriesland test and WWII air strikes on battleships, noting the 1960s shift away from battleships toward air power and missiles with risk to the New Jersey from potential Viet rockets and a 50-MIG strike.
Mrs Bruce A Sahlin of 8341 E Cheery Lynn Scottsdale commends an editorial proposing a STEP like committee to work with the school board. She argues for faster citizen involvement to raise teachers' morale and counter public apathy toward school problems, citing overcrowding and limited resources.
A Philadelphia Bulletin line quotes Type slips All city muses were ordered off the streets. Wexler argues restrains should apply to the press only when extensive coverage risks mocking justice or prejudicing a trial as reported in the Suffolk Sun.
N. D. wins best dressed title in Glamor contest and earns another badge. M. Vadim, seasoned in entertainment, once wed Brigitte Bardot and is now married to Miss Jane Fonda, per Idaho Falls Post-Register.
Among White House correspondents the first question was how firm the President was in his resolve not to be drafted according to the Dallas Times Herald.
Two brothers Karl Marx Jones and Mao Tse Jones lead rival revolutions in Apathea and Anathema. Karl gains little support and becomes suspicious and tyrannical, shooting dissenters, while Mao’s forces win with brutal methods, erupting in battles that kill many and cement power. Moral: revolutionaries often win or lose.
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