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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1968
Page
2
A provocative piece asks readers to examine personal ethics across nine scenarios including tax deductions police tickets cash handling speed and substance use. It challenges families and communities to confront observed wrongdoing and consider accountability.
Questions about dropping cigarette packs, teen behavior, and parental concerns raise worries about children’s influences. The dialogue asks who teaches teens and how to address smoking pot drinking and dress, hair, and listening to parents.
A Western reflection on Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, condemning Moscow’s use of military force to end Prague spring reforms. The piece argues the Kremlin seeks to crush democratization, dismantle NATO’s relevance, and uphold Soviet sphere control while exposing its deceitful peaceful coexistence pretense. It notes Yugoslavia and Romania siding with Prague and calls out Western misbelief in Soviet restraint.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Dahl Alene Dahl’s list of 25 marriage surprise ideas, praising the sentiment while questioning several suggestions. Practical tips like fresh flowers and love notes are seen as harmless, but gifts like dressing as a geisha or breakfast in bed risk awkward outcomes and tone.
Bob Considine notes presidents kept allies informed on Vietnam talks and global issues while rivals like George McGovern show little interest. He recalls Dewey refusing to honor secret content limits during WWII and a 1944 Marshall letter about Pearl Harbor code breakthroughs.
A reader congratulates the paper for alerting Arizona citizens to the McCulloch empire land grab program. They say growth should be orderly and guided by the people and their elected spokesmen, not out of state corporate dictates. They urge continued vigilance.
The report recalls Radio Budapest going off air and Prague warning of a point of no return as Soviet tanks demonstrate force to maintain satellite lines. It notes Communist party positions in Italy and France backing Moscow, Pravda accusing Dubcek aides of treason, and past events in 1945 1956 and 1958 including Nagy’s fate. A Czech Russian-Come promise is reported today.
The Canadian agriculture department aims to alter tomatoes for tougher skin and a less squashlike shape to suit mechanical pickers. It notes hand-picking labor is scarce and cites examples of long words typed on top-row keys.
An observer Col Kis Ma Phut of South Vietnam visits Chicago for the Democratic convention. He questions election security and crowds while noting guards, checkpoints, and the imagined vote for Humphrey. He mentions Johnson’s birthday rally and predicts McCarthy second, then departs for Disneyland.
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