Week of July 12, 1970

The House Ways and Means Committee agrees to a major trade bill that would

impose mandatory import quotas on shoes and textiles other than cotton. The bill

marks a sharp departure from the nation’s 37-year-old policy moving toward freer

After declining for six months, the nation’s GNP levels-out in the second quarter

of 1970, signaling the end of the recession.

welcomed at the White House. President Nixon told

them they should feel very much at home and get to

know this country from Congress to the local baseball

team.

year for cable service. Business Week magazine says

it’s a great business to get into - because operating

expenses of the average carrier are just $30 a

subscriber. Once known as “Community Antenna Television” - it was used in

mostly rural areas where a master antenna picked-up weak signals and

retransmitted them via cable into television homes. CATV is now just getting into

large cities and is growing at a rate of 20 go 25% a year. There are more than

2,500 systems now serving more than 4.5 million subscribers. Systems have

been sold at a pricing rate of 4200 to as high as $700 per home served Wall

Street now places a $400-$500 value to each home set. Most systems carry

about 12 channels, but coaxial cable,

some say, has the capacity to carry up

to 80 channels. The FCC, in a move to

foster added diversity, just ruled that by

next April 1, all CATV stations with

3,500 or more subscribers must

originate programming as well as pick it

up from over-the-air stations.

Manhattan Cable in New York is a

pioneer in original programming. It is

the only system in the country that

carries professional sports live and the

only one that sows movies entirely without commercials. The owners are thinking

of microwaving Madison Square Garden to other systems in other states.

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and data-processing machines, are

noisy enough to cause permanent

hearing damage to people who work in

them. Most of the noise comes from the

equipment used to cool the computers

and the machines that feed data into the

computers and receive the answers

from them. A typical center with one

computer and its data punching and

assorted equipment has noise levels

that rang from 89 to 94 decibels

throughout the day.

San Francisco - A head-on collision on a Golden Gate

Bridge approach ramp kills none and injures three

others. Officers say a southbound car veered over the

centerline into a northbound auto on the Doyle Drive

approach. The death toll so far is the highest on record

in San Francisco for a two-car collision.

arraigned on a grand jury indictment accusing her of

murder in the torture slaying of musician Gary

Hinman last summer.

In the latest edition of “Pageant” an article by Matin

Cohen telling of an epidemic of syphilis. Since 1957

there has been a 200% increase in syphilis among

teenagers alone.

Freak accident - Byron Arola, 14, picked up a bright

yellow rope that bell on a beach in Honolulu and

began wrapping it around his right arm. About 1,000

feet away, across the highway, a man had just towed a glider into the air, turned

his pickup truck around and drove back down the runway with the tow rope still

attached. The rope whipped the boy of his feet and dragged him 100 feet across

the beach into a chain-link fence. He later died.

Week of July 12, 1970

In sports - The National

League beats the American

League 5-4 in the all-star game

in Cincinnati. Among those in

the crowd in the new Riverfront

With two out in the bottom of

the 12th, Peter Rose singled.

Then Dodger infielder Billy

Grabarkewitz, hit a single

between third and short, moving

Rose to second, Jim Hickman

of the cubs then singled to

center, driving Rose home.

...Having just come off a narrow defeat in the Wimbledon

another knee operation “The pain is so bad that you

wonder whether you can walk again. But then, if there’s

one thing I really can’t stand, it’s losing. That kills me too.

She’ll undergo surgery to remove part of her right

kneecap - the same operation that was performed on her

left knee 22 months ago.

Gallup Poll - Sen. Edward Kennedy fails to regain the high level of popularity he

had enjoyed prior to his tragic car accident on Chappaquiddick Island a year ago.

This week - he’s at a 25% favorable rating, down from a 34% in January. Before

the accident - it was 49%.

Comedian Bill Cosby makes his debut as a jazz bandleader at Newport in Rhode

Island. Crosby’s crew consisted of a dozen LA and New York jazz and rock

musicians.

singer Frank Sinatra supports him in a race for reelection

against Democrat Jess Unruh. Says Sinatra - “I don’t

agree with everything Reagan does and I told him so. But

what do you do? It’s better than not voting, I told Reagan

that.’

Actor Dennis Hopper, referring to an article in an issue of

Life magazine, which said he used drugs, says he wants

Week of July 12, 1970

to appear on national television to refute the claim. “When they (young people)

read that Dennis Hopper can take heroin and still write, direct and act in movies,

they will get the mistaken impression that heroin is not bad. The article is not true

and most unfair. Man, the only thing I shoot up with is vitamin B12. My only habit-

forming vice is cigarettes.”

Promises” is set to make his motion picture debut in “A

Fan’s Notes” for Warner Brothers.

Television news -

Frank Sinatra will be Dinah Shore’s initial guest when

her daytime series “Dinah’s Place” debuts on NBC in

August. The show will be patterned as sort of a woman’s

magazine on the air.

Tuesday Night Television -

CBS - Movie, Governor and J.J., Special-Company C

NBC - Baseball

ABC - Mod Squad, Movie, Marcus Welby, MD

NET - NET Festival

Late night talk -

Richard

NBC - Johnny Carson - Charles Nelson Reilly, Phyllis

Newman

ABC - Dick Cavett - Alan Sues, George Rhodes

At the movies -

Fonda

Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine

Woodstock

Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers

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Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand

Donald Sutherland

Gloria Foster

Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law

Davison, Kim Darby

Sandy Dennis

Dolly Read, Cyntha Myers, Marcia Mc

Broom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett,

A Boy Named Charlie Brown