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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1970
Page
2
Editorial urges City Council action as Scottsdale Hospital faces looming winter capacity issues. It calls for Arizona Southern Baptist Convention to divest hospital control to a local non profit group to ensure timely admissions and avoid life threatening shortages.
A satirical tale contrasts fairy tale prosperity with real life inflation recession and a presidential speech. It follows Old Scrooge dictating price cuts and wage reductions to revive a market then celebrates a return to the Good Old Days. The piece notes stock market loss and cites Roger Bannister as a case in point.
In New York Pancho Gonzalez, at 42 a grand age for tennis, shows top form by defeating Rod Laver twice this year. A luncheon at 21 drew tennis luminaries, with Gonzalez sharing stories of beer, fitness, and a long career spanning three decades. The piece notes his height about 6-3 and a lean, wrinkled frame and mentions Postmaster General Blount at the event.
A Washington dinner tale features Churchill praising Clement Attlee and his wife. On the ride home with Mrs Blount, the Postmaster General asks how many great Americans exist. She replies one fewer than he thinks, delivering a witty punchline.
A letter argues the so called Silent Majority is not a uniform bloc. It notes internal disagreement among Americans and urges readers to think independently rather than follow leaders or overgeneralize shared beliefs. The writer signs from Atlanta.
The Senate narrowly approved a McClellan amendment to require the Civil Rights Commission to publish statements from those accused or criticized in its reports. Liberal senators led by Kennedy Hart and Tydings opposed the measure, arguing it could hinder civil rights progress. The vote was 44 to 40 with many liberals voting against and later offering no public statements. The move aimed to ensure fairness and allow defendants to present their side, but supporters warned of a Pandora’s box.
The author recalls childhood innocence in the 1930s and 40s amid poverty and global conflict. They describe adults sheltering children from sex and news, neighbors and shopkeepers filling gaps, and a generation exposed early to knowledge of evil while seeking simple joys like movies after dark.
Washington UPI humor piece envisions political watches as a fad with prototypes and fictional features. Describes Stassen watch with persistent running by whispering words, plus imagined models for Goldwater Wallace Humphrey Johnson Maddox Reagan Rockefeller.
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