Week of February 22, 1970

Five leading European airlines, including BOAC, cancel passenger or freight

service to Israel following explosions that sent a Tel Aviv-bound Swissair jet into

a fatal crash and forced an Austrian airliner into an emergency landing.

and terrorist groups that Israel will retaliate against them if

there is any further sabotage of Israeli planes or air

routes. The Prime Minister spoke after bombs killed 47

persons on a Swissair plane bound for Tel-Aviv and

damaged an Austrian airliner carrying mail for Israel.

Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia called a Negro

congressman a baboon and an ass when the lawmaker

threatened to throw him out of the House restaurant in

Washington, for giving away souvenir ax handles. Maddox and Rep. Charles

Diggs (D-Mich) - one of the House’s nine black members, engaged in a shouting

match that some feared would result in blows. It is said that the ax handles recall

Maddox’s days as an Atlanta restaurant owner when he used ax and pick

handles to bar Negroes.

Sports - Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, the Hall of Fame pitcher, is one of five co-

conspirators named in a federal indictment charging 10 other men with gambling

conspiracy. It all has to do with an alleged sports betting ring in Detroit.

He’s Your Dog Charlie Brown, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, NBC Saturday movie,

Mayberry RFD, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Family Affair, Here’s Lucy, Red

Skelton, Ed Sullivan, National Geographic Special, CBS Friday Night Movie, CBs

Thursday night movie, Jim Nabors, Ironside, Ice Capades special, Hawaii Five-O,

Mod Squad, The FBI, Doris Day Show.

Television news -

Paramount Pictures reach an out-of-court settlement of

a dual breach of contract suit pending between them.

Paramount filed suit against the actress last June,

charging that she had failed to fulfill her contract

commitments in the CBS series. Subsequently, she filed

a counter suit against the studio.

Week of February 22, 1970

It’s announced that Don Knotts will host a new comedy-variety hour on NBC-TV

next fall.

Dwayne Hickman, who portrayed Dobie in the Dobie Gillis series a few years

back, is leaving Los Angeles “to escape air pollution.”

Friday Night Television -

CBS - CBS Evening News with Walter

Cronkite, Get Smart, Tim Conway Show,

Merv Griffin

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley Report, High

Chaparral, Name of the Game, Bracken’s

World, The Tonight Show

ABC - ABC News with Frank Reynolds and

Howard K. Smith, Flying Nun, Brady Bunch,

Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Here Come the Brides. Love, American Style, Dick Cavett

Get Smart - Max and the Chief infiltrate a roman steam bath to check a top-

secret leak.

Flying Nun - Carlos learns the Korean orphan he’s been supporting for years is

now a beautiful 19-year-old woman.

Brady Bunch - Cindy accidentally gives away Marcia’s diary, which reveal her

feelings for Desi Arnez Jr.

Name of the Game - The police chief of an African nation asks Dan Farrell’s help

in investigating deaths caused by the illegal dilution of much needed medical

supplies.

Robert Stack stars.

misgivings about getting married after they meet a

cynical justice of the peace.

Merv Griffin - From Las Vegas - Cesar Romero,

Jackie Vernon, Fats Domino and Sammy Shore

Week of February 22, 1970

Johnny Carson - With Dennis Weaver and Billy De Wolfe

Paul McCartney joins neighbors in complaining about the girls who muster

outside his house at night. One London police inspector said, “Things reach a

head every weekend with dozens of teenagers, mainly girls, there in droves.”

“We can only move them on by threatening an obstruction charge. They stand

outside all night, sometimes in the bitter cold. I don’t understand it.”

Marilyn McCoo and The Fifth Dimension

appear on an episode of “It Takes A Thief” this

week. “Sing A Song of Murder” features the group

performing two songs - one is Burt Bacharach’s

“One Less Bell To Answer.”

Elvis Presley gives his first Houston concert

edition of “America’s Wildest Rodeo.”

Led Zeppelin are set for a new U.S. tour beginning March 23 -Portland, Oregon

with stops including Denver, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami Beach

and Memphis.

March 1 - The Ed Sullivan Show will be devoted exclusively to music composed

by the Beatles. Besides the Beatles (on film/tape), appearing will be Dionne

Warwick, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Peggy Lee and Duke Ellington, who

composed a new concerto based on Beatle songs.

United Airlines is using John Denver’s “Leaving On A Jet Plane” in its

commercials.

will stage Wintersend, a pop fest on

Easter Weekend, March 27-29 in South

Dade County Florida. Among the acts

signed are Canned Heat, Mountain,

Dead, Ritchie Havens, Sweetwater, Ike &

Tina Turner, Johnny Winter, Steve Miller,

Week of February 22, 1970

John Mayall, Little Richard, Ten Years After, B.B. King and Joe Cocker. Tickets

will be $20 for the entire festival.

Radio news -

ABC radio says it’s “Love” progressive rock format for FM stations will expand to

50 hours per week from 25. The package is now in 18 markets.

It’s announced that Jay Reynolds from WIFE Indianapolis is the new overnight

jock at WABC, New York.

Top Soul this week in 1970 -

Psychedelic Shack- Temptations

Thank You (Falettin me Be mice Elf Again) - Sly and the

Family Stone

Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time - Delfonics

Rainy Night in Georgia - Brook Benton

The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King

Oh What A Day - The Dells

Week of February 22, 1970

I Want You Back - Jackson 5

Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas

Love Bones - Johnny Taylor

Moon Walk Mart 1 - Joe Simon

If You’ve Got A Heart - Bobby Bland

I’m Just A Prisoner - Candi Staton

If Walls Could Talk - Little Milton

Love Grows - Edison Lighthouse

Leavin’ On A Jet Plane - Peter, Paul

& Mary

Come And Get It - Badfinger

Let’s Work Together - Canned Heat

Witch’s Promise - Jethro Tull

Reflections Of My Life - marmalade

Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris

Temma Harbour - Mary Hopkin

I’m A Man - Chicago

Friends - Arrival

Venus - Shocking Blue

Top albums this week in 1970 -

Led Zepplin II

Abbey Road - Beatles

Live In Las Vegas - Tom Jones

Willie and the Poorboys - Creedance

Clearwater Revival

Santana - Santana

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

Chicago - Chicago

Was Captured Live at the Forum -

Three Dog Night

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker

Week of February 22, 1970

To Our Children’s Children’s Children - Moody Blues

Englebert Humperdinck - Englebert Humperdinck

Grand Funk - Grand Funk Railroad

The Band - The Band

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head - BJ Thomas