Week of January 16, 1971

U.S. Steel, the nation’s biggest steel producer announces that it will raise the

price n three types of construction steel an average of 6.8%.

President Nixon sends uniformed White House guards into New York City to

protect foreign missions in the United Nations - as striking police patrolmen

refused all but emergency work for the third straight day.

The nation’s total output of goods and services showed its first yearly decline in

1970 since the 1958 recession as the auto strike took its toll in the fourth quarter.

The Congress convenes with Senate Democrats

with a Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

Vietnam - Enemy commandos attack the Phnom

Penh airport under cover of mortar fire early today and

spread death and devastation through the vital

complex in the heaviest blow at the capital since the

outbreak of the Cambodian war last March.

Interest rates on home mortgages, which reached as

high as 9.5% just 14 months ago, are dripping for the second time in a month,

this time to 7.5%.

Liberace, Julie Budd - Caesars Palace

Jimmy Durante, Abbe Lane - Frontier

Brenda Lee - Fremont

Ed Ames - International

Grand Ole Opry - Landmark

Woody Allen, Jane Morgan - Riviera

goes awry after someone threw water at the former

sock-it-to-me girl on laugh-in. Most in the room came

out wet.

Week of January 16, 1971

Some best-selling books -

Islands in the Stream - Ernest Hemingway

QB VII - Leon Uris

Love Story - Erich Segal

Passengers to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie

The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart

The Sensuous Woman - “J”

The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution

Is Trying To Make America Livable - Charles A.

Rich

Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs - Albert Speer

Civilization: a Personal View - Kenneith Clark

A White House Diary - Lady Bird Johnson

Don’t Fall Off The Mountain - Shirley MacLaine

Music news - Attorney David Hirst says the Beatles are a million dollars in the

red and their accounts were in such “lamentable shape,” that all four singers,

plus their company, might be unable to meet their tax commitments. Hirst

represents Beatle Paul McCartney (28).

“Pearl” - just released by Columbia

records was the album Janis Joplin was

working on last fall at the time of her

death.

Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough says he will

chuck his career to sail around the world,

and then open a school for

underprivileged children.

Burt Bacharach will headline his own

special featuring an all-star guest cast on

March 14 on CBS. On the show will be

Barbara Streisand, Tom Jones and ballet

star Rudolf Nureyev.

Week of January 16, 1971

Television news - ABC debuts “The

as Chad Smith. “Chad is a decent man

with a lively, lovely family. Their worries

are real. Their laughter is warm. And

together they share the uncertainty and

sometimes dangerous demands of his

profession. He’s a cop.”

CBS - CBS News with Walter Cronkite,

Family Affair, Jim Nabors, CBS Thursday

Night Movie

NBC - NBC News with David Brinkley, Flip Wilson Show, Ironside, Adam-12,

Dean Martin Show

ABC - Debut-Alias Smith and Jones, Bewitched, Danny Thomas, Dan August

NET - NET Playhouse, The Advocates

stay out of trouble for a year to earn amnesty from

the governor.

Jim Nabors - Roger Miller asks. Miller and Nabors

play pirates seeking treasure on a deserted island.

Bewitched - Mary the Good Fairy visits the

Stephenses the night Tabitha loses a tooth and

enjoys a wee bit too much of the brandy Darrin

offers her.

Dan August - Det. August investigates the slaying

of a woman last seen accepting a ride with several

teen-age boys. Stars Burt Reynolds, Norman Fell, Richard Anderson.

Dean Martin Show - Raymond Burr, Diahann Carroll, Pat Henry, Kay Medford

and Charles Nelson Reilly guest.

Week of January 16, 1971

At the movies -

Song of Norway

Christopher Jones

Anthony Perkins

Pop music this week in 1971 -

KNOCK THREE TIMES - Dawn

MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison

ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER - 5th Dimension

GROOVE ME - King Floyd

STONED LOVE - Supremes

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN - Santana

LONELY DAYS - Bee Gees

IMMIGRANT SONG - Led Zeppelin

YOUR SONG - Elton John

PAY TO THE PIPER - Chairmen Of

The Board

IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN - Gladys

Knight & Pips

ROSE GARDEN - Lynn Anderson

ONE MAN BAND - Three Dog Night

FOR THE GOOD TIMES - Ray Price

I THINK I LOVE YOU - Partridge

Family

DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW

WHAT TIME IT IS? - Chicago

STONEY END - Barbra Streisand

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE - Perry Como

LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH - Stephen Stills

BORN TO WANDER - Rare Earth

REMEMBER ME - Diana Ross

Week of January 16, 1971

DOMINO - Van Morrison

I REALLY DON’T WANT TO KNOW - Elvis Presley

STOP THE WAR NOW - Edwin Starr

GAMES - Redeye

Don’t Worry) IF THERE’S A HELL BELOW - WE’RE ALL GOING TO GO -

Curtis Mayfield

PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS - Jackie Moore

RIVER DEEP--MOUNTAIN HIGH - Supremes & Four Tops

I HEAR YOU KNOCKING - Dave Edmunds

SILVER MOON - Michael Nesmith & First National Band

SOMEBODY’S WATCHING YOU - Little Sister

WE GOTTA GET YOU A WOMAN - Runt

THE TEARS OF A CLOWN - Smokey Robinson & Miracles

MOTHER - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

WATCHING SCOTTY GROW - Bobby Goldsboro

MR. BOJANGLES - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

THEY CAN’T TAKE AWAY OUR MUSIC - Eric Burdon & War