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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1968
Page
2
Scottsdale welcomes the Chicago Cubs back for spring training as Leo Durocher leads the team. Fans recall last year’s surprise pennant chase and now hope for a division title, with exhibition tickets still on sale.
A flood washes away the old road leaving two cities split. County crews build a small bridge that serves cars briefly while the old road is repaired. When the road reopens the bridge seems wasted then floods return making the bridge necessary again.
The article analyzes the origins and growth of Soviet and Chinese power since 1947, arguing that power evolves in appearance but not reality. It notes Stalin's coercive posture, Mao's despotic rule, and China's nuclear capabilities, warning that U.S.–Soviet rapprochement must reflect shared needs without power surrender.
The piece discusses lawmakers pay and costs in Washington. It notes $30,000 salaries plus perks, calls out fund contributions to aid Percy, and questions the financial burdens on public servants including Nelson A. Rockefeller and Winthrop Rockefeller amid lavish independence. It mocks donor efforts and urges readers to support politicians.
Kozol recounts his 1964 substitute year in Boston schools reading Langston Hughes to pupils and facing dismissal. He exposes how children were bullied punished and devalued by biased policies while urging justice and soul searching among educators and officials.
Vaclav Mericka’s Orders and Decorations receives praise as a valuable reference with history and color photographs. Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz’s The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking offers 340 recipes and ingredient guides with store lists for U S purchases. Also listed are several novels and works including The Gabriel Hounds and Rosemary’s Baby among others.
Evans and Novak report President Johnson grows aggressively martial over Vietnam. He praises troops, denounces war reporters, and signals possible broader war powers, while distancing pacification rhetoric and alarming insiders.
Evelyn Crane argues that both Lincoln and Nixon faced repeated defeats and hardship shaping their character. She cites Lincoln’s five defeats and Nixon’s one clear loss, notes shared traits from poverty to constitutional reverence, and invokes Roosevelt and Hugo to frame adversity as a seminar for public service. She ends with a jab about convention politics and embassy protests.
A brief note from Atlanta notes that penalties for violating proposed act provisions could be felonies. The other fragment recalls a family's settlement in Flatbush Brooklyn with four children, tying to the Los Angeles Herald Exarbiner mention.
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