Week of July 25, 1981

Prince Charles (32) expects to cry at

his wedding while Lady Diana

Spencer (20) says they will not meet

the day before their wedding,

because “we might quarrel.” Prince

Charles said he picked most of the

wedding music - ranging from

Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and

Circumstance March No. 4” to the

hymn “Christ has the sure Foundation,” by the 17 th -Century master Henry

Purcell.

Arriving - First Lady Nancy Reagan, who said she would not curtsy to royalty,

greets Queen Elizabeth Ii with a handshake and a slight nod of her head. Mrs.

Reagan is President Reagan’s official representative to the wedding of Prince

Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. It caused a little stir in the British press when it

was found-out she wound not curtsy to the queen.

Reagan victory - The Democratic-controlled House votes to approve President

Regan’s 33-month, 25% across-the-board tax cut package.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana

Spencer are married in St. Paul’s

Cathedral in London as the Archbishop

of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie,

pronounced them “man and wife”

together. In his brief homily, Runcie

pronounced, “Here is the stuff of which

fairy tales are made.” It’s estimated that

some 750 million people worldwide

watched the ceremony on television.

Air traffic controllers reject a tentative contract by more than a 9-1 margin, raising

the threat of a strike that could ground half the nation’s commercial flights.

President Regan announces his immigration policy, which calls for a fine of $500

and $1,000 for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. The program also

includes a pilot “guest worker” program admitting up to 50,000 workers annually

from Mexico on a two-year trial basis.

Week of July 25, 1981

Murray Weidenbaum , chairman of the Council of

economic Advisers, tells President Reagan Americans

should not expect too much too soon from the

Administration’s budget and tax cuts.

Schlitz Brewing, the beer that made Milwaukee famous is

leaving town. The 6.8-million barrel malt beverage plant,

the least modern of the Schlitz facilities, has not been in

production since May 31 when employees went on strike

over a new contract. As a result, over 700 employees will

be laid off.

My-my - there’s a big firebug in the town of Muncy, PA. So far - 14 fires have

been lit by an arsonist during the past month. Most have been sheds and

garages. The only exception - the town’s library.

Jean Harris, serving 15 years to life for the murder of “Scarsdale Diet” author

Herman Ternower, was punched in the face in a brief scuffle with another inmate

and confined to her cell. Both women suffered bruises and scratches and were

treated at the prison hospital.

Medical - doctors attempting to correct a birth defect in a 9-year-old boy’s leg

performed surgery on the wrong leg and now the boy wears two casts.

First artificial heart transplant - test case? - A 36-year-old man is being kept alive

with an artificial heart, placed in his chest by Houston surgeons, without

permission from the FDA. The surgery was performed at the Texas Heart

Institute. It’s the first use of an artificial heart in the United States. The

announcement came at a surprise to a group of researchers at the University of

Utah, which has had a similar mechanical heart ready for use. They felt that it

could not use the device in a patient without the approval of the FDA, which in

March, decided to delay granting permission for human use. The Houston

researchers are headed by heart surgeon Dr. Denton Coley. He says they

decided to implant the device without FDA approval because they say that such

approval is unnecessary in an emergency when an untested device is the only

way to save a patient’s life.

Passing - Robert Moses , the “master builder” who

changed the face of New York City during a half-century of

power. He was 92. He built virtually every major artery and

many bridges and parks in the New York area. That

included Shea Stadium, The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,

the United Nations plaza and Lincoln Center.

Week of July 25, 1981

Sports - The baseball strike gets settled and it looks like major league baseball

will be back on August 10.

CBS is shaking up its football announcer pairings. Pat Summerall and Tom

Brookshier will be splitting up, as will Vin Scully and George Allen. Summerall

and Scully - #1 and #2 announces for football, will have new partners. Hank

Stram for Summerall and John Madden for Scully. Out completely is Curt Cowdy.

Tom Brookshier will be doing some sort of play-by-play. Gowdy says he wants to

concentrate on outside interests such as the “American Sportsman” weekend

show.

Music news - Tom Petty is a guest on Tom Snyder’s “Tomorrow” show.

Rick James says it’s hard as a black, to break

into rock… “There are too many barriers that keep

blacks out of rock. It’s hard to pinpoint them

because they’re very subtle and insidious. Let’s

face it. Rock is white music. The fans are mostly

white. It’s so tough for blacks to break into this

white domain that most of us don’t even bother.”

Entertainment -

Passing - William Wyler - Academy-award

winning director with a 50 career in movies. He

was 79.

Passing - Max Liebmann - best known as producer-director of the 1950’s hit TV

show - “Your Show of Shows.’

Television news -

Not certain: Lynn Redgrave ’s status on the sitcom “House

Calls” due to a dispute over breast feeding her baby at work.

In her negotiations with Universal, she’s asking for a nurse to

care for her new baby and assurances she would have time to

breast feed the child during the day.

Friday night television -

CBS - Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas

NBC - Harper Valley PTA, Comedy Theater, Robert Klein

Show, Steve Allen Comedy Hour, Tonight, SCTV Network 90

ABC - Benson, Dr. Seuss’ Pontoffel Pack, Movie, Nightline, Fridays

PBS - Washington Week, Wall Street Week