Week of April 8, 1970

Tampa - U.S. Dist. Judge Ben Krentzman fines Gov Claude Kirk Jr. guilty of civil

contempt for defying court school integration orders.

The Senate rebuffs President Nixon by vetoing his second successive Supreme

Court nomination - that of Harrold Carswell.

Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell hires a press secretary for his outspoken wife,

Martha, as an aftermath of her latest verbal foray into public print. She had asked

the Arkansas Gazette to “crucify” Sen. J.W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) for his vote against

confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nation’s jobless level reaches a 5-year high with a million more workers out

of jobs now than when President Nixon took office 15 months ago.

The South Vietnamese command has clamped down on news coverage of

border developments, barring newsmen from some areas along the Cambodian

frontier and refusing to let them go into the field with certain government forces.

a new income tax program to help meet a $1 billion

deficit, asks for two new taxes that would affect all city

motorists. The mayor requests permission to impose a

$10 annual fee on all motor vehicles that are owned or

maintained I the city.

After a three-hour deliberation, a grand jury

abandoned its day-old inquiry into the death of Mary

Jo Kopechne in a car driven by Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy. “The case is closed.”

President Nixon greets about 30 TV producers at a daylong White House

conference on drug abuse. He said television and radio have an enormous

impact on the younger generation. “The power in this room can make the

difference in the story of dope.” The President said he realizes there must be

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entertainment and there is competition I the industry, but he suggested there

could be programs which catch the interest of young people and at the same

time, get the message across.

Passing - Novelist John O’Hara. He was 65.

In Arkansas - David Eisenhower tells a Youth Council he wouldn’t discuss the

Carswell-Supreme Court controversy because anything he might say would only

be “a pale imitation of Martha Mitchell.” Ms. Mitchell had called an Arkansas

paper saying it was a “damn shame” that Sen. J.W. Fullbright (D-Ark.) had voted

against confirmation of Judge C. Harrold Carswell to the court.

With a substitute pilot - Apollo 13 makes a nice blast-off from Cape Kennedy.

Hours later, substitute command module pilot John Swigert docked the

spacecraft Odyssey with the landing vehicle Aquarius. Meanwhile, having been

exposed to the measles, Thomas Mattingly, who was supposed to be the pilot,

has been told by a doctor he’ll probably get the measles this week.

Spectators at Cape Kennedy -

Mrs. Marilyn Lovell, who has

watched her husband rocket into

space on four occasions, says the

Apollo 13 launch was the most

beautiful she has seen, but she

was glad it was Lovell’s last.

Best picture - “Midnight Cowboy”

Best actress - Maggie Smith - “The Prime of Miss Jean

Brodie”

Week of April 8, 1970

Best directing - John Schlesinger - “Midnight Cowboy”

Best song - “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” from Butch Cassidy. Music by

Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David.

at least until the weekend after he had an allergic reaction

to penicillin given him to combat an ear infection.

Sandy Koufax, the legendary southpaw and now a

sportscaster says he doesn’t understand the reasoning

behind the ruling handed down by commissioner Bowie

Kuhn in the Denny McLain case. Koufax, interviewed on

NBC radio’s “Monitor” weekend program, said the

suspension meted out to McLain until July 1 for betting on

basketball games and attempting to become a bookmaker

was “either too harsh or not enough.” “Either he’s guilty or

not guilty. It’s sort of like saying half-pregnant. All the years I played, gambling

was the prime sin. Ever since the Black sox scandal that was the one thing you

didn’t even talk about as far as baseball was concerned.”

Radio news -

on XERB (1090 AM) - a Tijuana station beaming to all of

Southern California and beyond at night. The Wolfman does a

lot of concerts under the Promotion Associates banner. “Take

a town like Modesto. We rent a facility like the fairgrounds for

$600 and we make two or three thousand, understand what I

mean?” says the Wolfman. The station plays r&b, but

Wolfman says that hop people of all colors comprise his audience. “Record

promoters don’t seem to understand that black people like the same hits that

whites do. If the Beatles have a big record out, it’s No. 1 with the blacks too. I

found this out when I took the first survey of all record stores.”

and withdraws from the group to concentrate on his solo

career. He made official what had been increasingly

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apparent in recent months: close as brothers when they were struggling in small

nightclubs, the foursome had acquired too many other interests along with wealth

and world acclaim. His solo album, “McCartney,” is to be released this week

(Friday).

More music news -

Sammy Davis Jr. and Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. announce the

formation of a new music industry complex - Ecology Records

and involved are music publishing and record companies with

future planning to include pictures and television. Davis

assumes the top creative post in the alignment. He is also the

first artist to sign an exclusive deal with Ecology. First album -

“Sammy Davis Jr. at Carnegie Hall - Live.” (editor’s note) - this

didn’t go anywhere as only one other record - a single would be

released under this label - by Sammy Davis Jr.

Hot hits this week in 1970 -

Let It Be - The Beatles

ABC - Jackson 5

Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Grows) - Edison Lighthouse

Easy Come, Easy Go - Bobby Sherman

The Rapper - Jaggerz

Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkle

Instant Karma - John Lennon

House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink

Come and Get It - Badfinger

Vehicle - Ides of March

Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens

Love or Let Me Be Lonely - Friends of Distinction

Something’s Burning - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection

Playing in Las Vegas -

Connie Stevens, John Rowles - Flamingo

Robert Goulet - Frontier

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Tiny Tim - Fremont

Gene Kelly - International

Danny Thomas - Sands

Don Rickles - Sahara

Entertainment news -

ready to race professionally. His first professional race is

this week at Riverside International Raceway in the 14-

race Continental Grand Prix series (formula cars).

Television news -

Sesame Street, the educational television series for

preschool children, will return for a second season in

October in at least 200 cities.

Returns to TV - Dinah Shore will return as the hostess of

Dinah’s Place.

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Hee Haw, Beverly Hillbillies, Medical Center, Hawaii Five-O, Merv Griffin

NBC - The Virginian, Kraft Music Hall, then Came Bronson, Tonight

ABC - Nanny and the Professor, Courtship of Eddie’s father, Room 222, Johnny

Cash Show, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dick Cavett

Educational - Book Beat , International Magazine

Tammy Wynette guest.

Courtship of Eddie’s Father - Tom Corbitt

tries a computer dating service, but finds his

“match’ enjoys the things he doesn’t.

Johnny Cash - Patti Page, Sony James and

Toni Jo White.

Week of April 8, 1970