Week of December 1, 1970

The 1970 census counts 204,763,770 Americans and elevates California as the

most populous state at 19,959,134.

Robert Maples (22) - an ex-machine gunner

testifies at the court-martial of 1 st lt. William

Calley Jr. that he saw Calley and a GI fire into a

ditch where they had “gathered up” defenseless

men, woman and children. He also said that

Calley, as his platoon leader, ordered him to

join in the firing but “I refused.”

French Canadian terrorists surrender

kidnapped British envoy James Cross to a

Cuban delegation in Montreal after holding him

captive 60 days in exchange, Canada flies

three terrorists and four of their relatives in asylum in Havana aboard a military

plane.

Farm union leader Caesar Chevez is jailed for the first time. A Monterey County

Superior Judge sentenced Chavez to jail until he calls off a lettuce boycott and

strike prohibited by a previous court order.

He’s gone! - Las Vegas sheriff’s officers conduct a midnight raid on the Desert

Inn penthouse, claiming they believed Howard Hughes had been kidnapped. The

raid was a move influenced by Robert Maheu, fighting to remain as head of

Hughes’ Las Vegas operations against the challenge of long-time officials of the

Hughes Tool Co. - the Houston firm that is the keystone of Hughes’ empire.

Maheu is mounting a campaign to try to establish that Hughes may no longer by

physically or mentally capable of making decisions.

Leaving Las Vegas - Howard Hughes takes over a

ninth-floor suite at the Britannia Beach Hotel on Paradise

Island in the Bahamas. Hughes, who will be 65 late this

month, is said to be in declining health.

The Transportation Department proposes that all

passenger cars - beginning with 1973 models - be

designed to operate no faster than 95 m.p.h. and to

sound horns and flash lights when 85 m.p.h. is reached.

Speedometers would not be permitted to show speeds

higher than 85 m.p.h. under the proposed safety

standard. The Safety Bureau said studies had indicated

Week of December 1, 1970

the fatality rate increases “markedly at speeds over 80 m.p.h., and that there is a

direct relationship between the severity of injury and vehicle speed.”

He’s king of custom cars - next time you go to Hollywood, check out George

Barris’ non-descript automobile showroom on Riverside Drive. He’s done them

all, including the Munster Mobile back in 1964.

Ryan O’Neal is the talk of Hollywood these days. He’s

starring in a movie from the best-selling book “Love

Story.” Ryan plays a wealthy social hockey player at

Harvard and had to learn how to skate for the movie.

O’Neal is currently shooting a new movie, “Wild

Rovers” with William Holden.

Some best-selling books:

Love Story - Erich Segal

Islands in the Stream - Ernest

Hemingway

The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart

Rich Man, Poor Man - Irwin Shaw

Child From The Sea - Elizabeth Goudge

God Is An Englishman - R.F. Delderfield

Secret Woman - Victoria Holt

The Sensuous Woman - “J”

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex - David r.

Reuben

Future Shock - Alvin Tofler

Body Language - Julius Fast

Papillon - Henri Charriere

Inside The Third Reich: Memoirs - Albert Speer

New from Tom Wolfe - Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Cathers.

“Tom Wolfe introduces a new phrase to the language to describe one of the

intriguing phenomena of our times: the courting of romantic radicals - Black

Panthers, striking grape workers, Young Lords - by New York’s socially elite. He

focuses particularly on one symbolic event: the gathering of the radically chick at

Leonard Bernstein’s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of

the Black Panther Party, to hear them out, and talk over ways of aiding their

cause. The Beautiful People will ever be the same again.”

Week of December 1, 1970

Sports - Just beginning what may be a brilliant pro career, O.J.

Simpson is lost to the Buffalo Bills for the rest of the season.

Simpson suffered a slight tear of the capsule behind the left knee”

when he was tackled while returning a kickoff during a game with

Cincinnati.

The Harlem Globetrotters will make the

first of several annual appearances on

NBC beginning January 12. Joe Garagiola will host the

special, which will feature a segment in which the

Globetrotters will play the Jersey City Reds.

Music news - Roy Clark checks out of St. Thomas

Hospital in Nashville where he was recovering from a

heart problem. He’ll return to work on a limited basis on

CBS-TV’s “Hee Haw.”

Johnny Mathis who has not appeared in Vegas in more than four years, opens a

one-week engagement this week at Caesars Palace.

Television news - Mickey Mantle is set to appear on CBS-TV’s “Hee Haw” on

December 29.

Jack Barry Productions and ABC-TV join forces for a new game show pilot “The

Reel Game” which utilizes headlines of the past and present.

ABC’s “Dating Game” will celebrate its sixth anniversary

with alums Nipsey Russell , Angela Cartwright, Dave

Madden and Agnes Moorehead.

President Nixon sends congratulations to Captain

Kangaroo for providing wholesome television

entertainment for children for 15 years. Nixon’s letter

said Captain kangaroo was not only a favorite of the

nation’s children but also of “all discriminating parents

concerned with the quality of shows their children

watch.”

Week of December 1, 1970

Airport - Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage - Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Ryan’s Daughter - Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones

Dirty Dingus Magee - Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy

Monte Walsh - Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance

Dick Carson, brother of Johnny Carson, will direct 13 weeks of the Merv Griffin

Show on rival CBS-TV. He once directed “The Tonight Show.”

This week’s TV Guide

Week of December 1, 1970

Rick Ely of ABC-TV’s “Young Rebels”

guests on Dick Clark’s American

Bandstand this Saturday, where he’ll

sing his new single “Circle Game.”

Sunday Night Television -

CBS - Night Before Christmas,

Lassie, Hogan’s Heroes, Ed Sullivan

Show, Glen Campbell, Tim Conway

Show

NBC - Wild Kingdom, Special-Kraft

Hall of Fame, Special-Dick Van Dyke

Meets Bill Cosby, The Bold Ones

ABC - Young Rebels, The FBI, ABC

Sunday Night Movie

Young Rebels - Henry is arrested after

his cousin wages an indiscriminate

campaign of terror against the British.

Rick Ely, Lou Gossett and Alex

Henteloff star.

Kraft Hall of Fame - Reprise of “The

Littlest Angel” starring Fred Gwynne,

Johnnie Whitaker.

Ed Sullivan - Joey Heatherton, Peter

Genaro, Scoey Mitchell, Pat Cooper,

Three Degrees, Veterans acrobats, National Football League’s “Holiday

Halftime.”

Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour - With Walter

Brennan, Larry Storch, Thelma Houston .

Tim Conway - With Mickey Rooney, Dorothy

Lamour. Music guest Bobby Bloom sings

“Montego Bay.”

Week of December 1, 1970

The Bold Ones - An ex-Army medic is charged

with murder when an auto accident victim he administered to dies. Stars Joseph

Campanella and Burl Ives. Guest stars Monte Markham, Ramon Bieri, Jon

Lormer.

Pop Music this week in 1970…

I THINK I LOVE YOU - Partridge

Family

THE TEARS OF A CLOWN -

Smokey Robinson & Miracles

GYPSY WOMAN - Brian Hyland

I’LL BE THERE - Jackson 5

SHARE THE LAND - Guess Who

MONTEGO BAY - Bobby Bloom

5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love) -

Presidents

SEE ME, FEEL ME - The Who

HEAVEN HELP US ALL - Stevie

Wonder

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU

LOVE ME - Elvis Presley

MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison

DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? - Chicago

ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER - 5th Dimension

STONED LOVE - Supremes

YELLOW RIVER - Christie

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN - Santana

FIRE AND RAIN - James Taylor

BE MY BABY - Andy Kim

AFTER MIDNIGHT - Eric Clapton

NO MATTER WHAT - Badfinger

SOMEBODY’S BEEN SLEEPING - 100 Proof

Aged In Soul

HE AIN’T HEAVY...HE’S MY BROTHER - Neil

Diamond

HEED THE CALL - Kenny Rogers & First Edition

ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART - Neil

Young

I’M NOT MY BROTHER’S KEEPER - Flaming Ember