Week of April 23, 1971
The Soviet Union sends a spaceship with three men aboard into orbit to conduct
“joint experiments” with a space station launched four days earlier.
Chase Manhattan raises its prime rate, the rate is charges its best customers to
5.5% - up a quarter-point.
Almost 600 Vietnam veterans return their Indochina war medals and papers to
the U.S. government. They hurled them over a wooden and wire barricade onto
the Capitol grounds in protest against the war in which they had fought and many
had been wounded.
More than 175,000 Americans turn
Pennsylvania Ave. into a giant protest
against the Vietnam War. The
demonstration comes less than a month
after President Nixon announced a new
troop withdrawal from Vietnam of
100,000 Americans to be completed by
December 1 in continuation of his
Vietnamization program.
More than a thousand protesters
returning from an antiwar rally in Washington, block the New Jersey Turnpike
near Swedesboro, NJ for four hours, forcing police to close 35 miles of the main
highway. The protest began when the occupants of about 20 cars parked on the
road’s shoulders and sat down on the both sides of the four-lane turnpike.
It’s said that “fragging” - Americans
turning their weapons on each other in
moments of blinding hate - are on the
increase.
A special House subcommittee reports
that up to 60% of all U.S. servicemen
have tried drugs and that in Vietnam,
where drugs are “more plentiful than
cigarettes or chewing gum,” a heroin
addict can support his habit for only $10
a day.
Week of April 23, 1971
The government announces the arrest of a California woman - Leslie Bacon
(19), as a material witness in the March 1 bombing of the U.S. Capitol.
Chevrolet pays two salvage dealers $20,000 for boxes of microfilm, containing
letters from the years 1964 and 1965 complaining about the Corvair and other
Chevrolet products. The dealers said a GM executive was “really in a panic” to
get the letters back, rather than let them fall into the hands of auto critic Ralph
Nader. The microfilmed letters had vanished from the Chevrolet customer
relations department after 1965 and turned up in a Detroit warehouse, purchased
by the salvage partners.
Medical trend - more and more non-emergency cases are being treated in
hospital emergency rooms as more and more patients are turning to emergency
medicine for their primary care.
Sports - Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain pulls out of a July 26 boxing bout with
Muhammad Ali after demanding a tax-free guarantee of $500,000. It would have
been his first bout. Promoters are still hoping it will happen. The fight was
supposed to be at the Houston Astrodome.
Curt Flood - the Washington Senators’ $105,000
center fielder, quits baseball, saying he has “very
serious” personal problems mounting every day.
Actress Jean Seberg and her ex-husband novelist
Romain Gary are suing Newsweek magazine
because of an article, which said a black activist
from California got Ms. Seberg pregnant in 1970.
The U.S. Office of Education says it plans to
finance adult version of the successful children’s
series “Sesame Street” for instruction in such
things as reading and vocational education.
Television news -
Reunited again - Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden will
team again as a married couple in a TV movie, “A
Howling in the Woods” made by Universal for NBC-TV.
Actress-singer-comedienne Nancy Dussault joins the
cast of the New Dick Van Dyke Show - an upcoming
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CBS series also starring Hope Lange, Marty Brill and Fanny Flagg.
Frank Gifford , formerly with the NY Giants and CBS sports
commentator will join ABC in May. He’s also signed to do the
play-by-play on ABC’s Monday night pro football broadcasts.
Hugh Downs announces he is leaving the Today Show to
pursue other interests. Downs has hosted the morning program
for nine years. He’ll leave October 11 when his current three-
year contract with NBC expires. Frank McGee will leave the NBC Nightly News to
become the program’s new host.
TV ratings. Top 5 are NBC-TV shows :
Flip Wilson - 29.0
Bonanza - 27.5
Ironside - 27.3
Movie-Jane Eyre - 27.3
Winnie the Pooh - 27.2
Osmond Brothers Special - 25.4
Marcus Welby - 25.1
Charlie Brown Special - 24.9
ABC Movie of the Week - 24.7
Here’s Lucy - 24.4
Partridge Family - 24.4
Wednesday night television -
CBS Evening News with Walter
Cronkite, Men at Law, To Rome
With Love, Medical Center, Hawaii
Five-O, Merv Griffin
NBC - Men From Shiloh, Kraft
Music Hall, McCloud, Tonight Show
ABC - Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Room 222, Smith Family, Johnny Cash,
Young Lawyers, Dick Cavett
PBS - French Chief, Trial, Masterpiece Theater
Courtship of Eddie’s Father - Mrs. Livingston gets upset because Eddie’s father
has punished him - and he can’t go with her to the Japanese Fair.
To Rome With Love - Penny tries to get her father to adopt a homeless Italian
boy.
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Kraft Music Hall - Lena Horne, Charles Nelson Reilly, Stiller and Meara join host
Alan King.
Young Lawyers - Aaron Silverman returns to his old neighborhood to try to
prevent a landlord from evicting his tenants. Stars Lee J. Cobb, Zalman King,
Judy Pace.
Tonight Show - Johnny Carson welcomes Don
Rickles, Melba Moore , Louise Lasser, Bob Klein.
Radio news -
KHJ Los Angeles presses a special album for
Vietnam servicemen titled 93/KHJ V-disc ’71.” The
LP contains an hour of “The Real Don Steele”
show.”
Bob Dorian is the new program director of WLIX, Islip. He had been at WALK
and WBAB.
Bill Beamish has an opening for a DJ at WAVZ, New Haven.
Frankie Crocker is now the program director at WLIB-FM. He had been with
WMCA and WWRL. Alex Bennett - once of WMCA is now with the new WPLJ as
the station shifts call letters from WABC-FM
Music - “ The Larry Kane Show ” long a
teen stable in Houston, is now seen in 65
markets. It’s syndicated by Bing Crosby
Productions.
Lulu - the hefty performer on CBS-TV’s
“Hee Haw” is indicted by the Dallas
County grand jury n a charge of
possession of narcotics.
It’s announced that Diana Ross will star as Billie Holiday in a film based upon
“Lady Sings The Blues,” Holiday’s autobiography.
“The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley” a song expressing the sentiment that Lt. William
Calley was doing his duty at My Lai, tops the million sales mark. One store in
Week of April 23, 1971
Dallas sold 1,000 copies in one day after erecting a mannequin dressed as a
soldier.
Top Soul -
Soul Power - James Brown
Baby Let Me Kiss You - King Floyd
What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
Just My Imagination (Running Away With
Me) - Temptations
Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
If It’s Real What I Feel - Jerry Butler
Do Me Right - Detroit Emeralds
We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
Top Country -
We Sure Can Love Each other - Tammy
Wynette
Empty Arms - Sonny James
Knock Three Times - Billy Crash Craddock
Always Remember - Bill Anderson
How Much More Can She Stand - Conway Twitty
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
Better Movie it On Home - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
L.A. International Airport - Susan Raye
I’d Rather Love You - Charley Pride
Top hits in Britain -
Hot Love - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Bridget the Midget - Ray Stevens
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
Jack In The Box - Clodagh Rodgers
Another Day - Paul McCartney
There Goes My Everything - Elvis Presley
Walking - C.C.S
Power To The People - John Lennon &The Plastic
Ono Band
It’s Impossible - Perry Como
Top albums this week in 1971 -
Pearl - Janis Joplin
Love Story - Andy Williams
Jesus Christ Superstar - various artists
Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix
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Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Love Story - soundtrack
Up to Date - Partridge Family
Chicago III - Chicago
Close To You - Carpenters
Golden Bisquits - Three Dog Night
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David
Crosby
Woodstock - soundtrack
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Stoney End - Barbara Streisand
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
This Is A Recording - Lily Tomlin
Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Love’s Lines, Angles & Rhymes - Fifth Dimension
Elton John
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
Music news - For now, Peter, Paul & Mary have dissolved and Mary is going at it
solo. She has a new album “Mary” and is now touring.
At the movies -
Tora! Tora! Tora !
Song of Norway
Andromedia Strain
Ryan’s Daughter
Patton - George C. Scott
Waterloo - Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
There’s A Girl In My Soup - Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn
The House That Dripped Blood - Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn
Porter, Denholm Elliott
Claire’s Knee - Jean-Claude Brialy
Investigation of a Citizen
Week of April 23, 1971
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