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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1970
Page
2
A columnist argues Chief Justice Warren Burger should tour a state prison to grasp jail realities. The piece contends prisons fail to cut crime, promote rehabilitation, and that judges and legislators must study inmate needs to develop effective, self paying programs.
Public health officials note seven million unprotected children nationwide with Arizona well behind other states. In 1969 Arizona measles rate stood at 32.9 per thousand, higher than regional and national peers, urging an organized, state led immunization push to eradicate the disease.
President Edward H. Levi of the University of Chicago asserts faculty control over tenure with no student veto. He warns that political pressures would trigger his resignation and notes campus discipline responses to radical protests, expulsions, and ongoing concerns about academic freedom amid student activism.
Irene Mary reviews Nerin E Gun's Hitler's Mistress, noting Eva Braun’s youth, convent upbringing, and devotion to a man who framed Germany’s fate. The critique acknowledges strong research but questions whether Braun reveals Hitler’s true character, ending with her emblematic role in a chaotic period.
The piece argues Congress wields budget power to curb space programs and dismiss experts, contrasting lawmakers’ grip with NASA’s aims. Krafft Ehricke, Convair, champions aggressive space expansion, warning that space exploration is driven by need and civilization’s growth, not mere curiosity.
A reader laments the medical shows clogging screens and causing psychosomatic symptoms in neighbors. He jokes that daily TV diagnoses replace real care, while viewers chase cures via Marcus Welby and other programs at home.
A Scottsdale voter comments on a candidate’s full page ad and its insinuations about gender and government service. The letter argues sex is irrelevant to qualifications, defends Billie Gentry’s candidacy, and urges voters to consider qualifications over gender or occupation. The writer supports three capable candidates and cautions against ad tactics.
A NCAA convention remark from a college athletic director highlights escalating expenses in track and field. He cites a $70 pole, $100 box, $10 bar, $400 standards, and a $2,400 portable pit as examples of modern gear costs.
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