Week of May 8, 1972

Getting tough - President Nixon announces that North Vietnam is being cut off

from the sea and rail supplies - its harbors mined and blockaded to deprive it any

weapons of war.

More Vietnam - 8 MIG’s are shot down in heaviest U.S. raids on North Vietnam

in 4 years.

A presidential panel’s study reports that 46% of all unmarried American females

have had sexual intercourse by age 19.

A bomb wrecks a Belfast bar crowded with Roman Catholics and hidden gunmen

snips at people who gathered outside, killing a British soldier and tree civilians.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s wife, Joan will discuss her experiences in

psychotherapy in a magazine article by an author who was written her husband’s

biography and is now working on hers.

100,000 protesters in the streets of Miami

Beach for the 1972 political conventions, but

promised, “It won’t be another Chicago.”

Sports -

Lakers defeat the Knicks - After 12 years,

the Los Angeles Lakers become the National

Basket Assn. champs. Seen celebrating -

Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West. Final was

114-100.

Music news -

A British record firm is

considering whether to release a song called “The Pope Smokes

Dope” by John Lennon and his wife Yoko. A spokesman for EMI

says the song is one of an album of 12, all dealing with drugs, sex

and violence. The record is subtitled “Record Lies on the streets of

the Vatican.” The record was given to 300 American radio stations

- all but 2 have rejected it.

Week of May 8, 1972

Melanie, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, the Beach Boys

and Sha Na Na will headline “Good Vibrations ’72.

Talk show host Dick Cavet tells a deportation hearing

that Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, are

“an example to young people of what they should do

with their lives.” Another witness, Lennon’s business

manager Allen Klein said Lennon’s business interests

and holdings amounted to 450 million and said that up to 150 families depend of

the Lennon for their livelihood.

Television news -

David Frost and Westinghouse Broadcasting enter into an agreement whereby

Frost will drop his syndicated nightly program after the current run. Instead, Frost

will be featured in six worldwide public affair shows.

Passing - Dan Blocker - beloved actor known

as “Hoss” on Bonanza. He was 43. Death was

attributed to a blood clot in the lung.

With the shift of “The Tonight Show” to Burbank,

orchestra leader Doc Severinson is working with

a whole different bunch of musicians. “I’ll miss

those guys. Just a week before the program left

New York, we gave what turned out to be our

farewell concert at Philharmonic Hall.”

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Carol Burnett Show, Medical Center,

Mannix, Movie

NBC - Adam 12, McCloud, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Tonight

ABC - Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Smith Family,

Marty Feldman

Night Gallery - After she takes a new position in a rural

area, a schoolteacher begins seeing visions of a small

boy. Stars Elizabeth Hartman.

Week of May 8, 1972

Tonight Show - Kenny Rogers, Jim Fowler and Karen Valentine join Johnny.

Thursday night television -

CBS - Basketball

NBC - Flip Wilson, Ironside, Dean Martin, Tonight

ABC - Alias Smith and Jones, Longstreet, Owen Marshall, Dick Cavett

Curry help two nuns whose wagon has

broken down and their act of kindness

leads to trouble. Stars Pete Duel and

Ben Murphy. Guest stars - Jane Wyatt,

Jane Morrow, J.D. Cannon.

Longstreet - Mike acts as a go-between

when a thoroughbred racehorse is stolen for $100,000 ransom.