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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1961
Page
4
Maj. Robert M. White, U.S. Air Force, flies the X-15 at 2905 miles per hour for two minutes six seconds, a speed four times the sound barrier. The feat defies ordinary travel time and time perception though only briefly sustained due to heat. White dismisses the record as routine.
The article notes the Kremlin had blueprints of Vermont defense tractors and explains how copying failed due to alloy differences. It warns despite copying, production will take time, with 45 Vermont machines soon joining U.S. defense work rather than aiding Khrushchev.
Marquis Childs surveys the nuclear test ban talks at Geneva set to resume March 21. He contrasts the White House negotiators John J. McCloy and Arthur Dean with the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, noting distrust, risk of failure, and the stakes of consent, inspection, and Senate ratification amid mounting Cold War pressure.
A narrator recalls visiting Dachau and the Eichmann trial in the 1960s remote tour through German camps. The piece contrasts horror with mercy, describing gas showers ovens and survivors memories alongside Marrion McGillicuddy’s mission to aid leprosy patients in Viet Nam with the Maryknoll Sisters.
Washington UPI columnist notes during Murrow confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the longtime journalist appeared unusually tense and cigarette free. The piece toys with Murrow’s public image, jokes about tobacco, pay cut, and the stress of testifying in this political spotlight.
The Los Angeles Daily Journal reports former Vice President Richard M. Nixon has joined the Los Angeles firm Adams Duque Hazeltine in its On the Move column. Ottawa House Speaker Flynn objects to a member calling another lawmaker a bloated toad. Herridge offers to replace with a toy balloon about to explode.
Fulton Lewis Jr reports that despite a $4 billion balance of payments gap the Defense Department and Veterans Administration buy foreign medical supplies. The U S government imported thousands of tetracycline bottles from Italy and Danish meprobamate, spurring claims of patent piracy and illegal dumping by Italian firms aided by weak patent enforcement.
Ralph McGill notes the Peace Corps concept as an ambitious mission to send trained volunteers to Latin America Africa and Asia to fill shortages in education agriculture health and administration. He warns of screening failures yet sees bold potential to share American talent while supplementing existing aid programs.
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