Week of May 15, 1971

The signalmen’s union calls a nationwide rail strike after last-minute efforts by the

Labor department to bring agreement fell through.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat charges that opposition leaders had planned a

coup, bugged his offices and tried to disrupt the orderly process of government.

President Nixon signs an emergency law ordering an end of a two-day

nationwide railroad strike that stranded trainloads of commuters and cargo and

was beginning to cripple much of the American industry. He acted within hours

after Congress sent him the hastily enacted measure giving 13,000 striking

railroad signalmen a 13.5% wage hike and ordering a halt to the walkout at least

until Oct. 1.

Former Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo wins in Philadelphia Democratic

mayoral primary - beating two contenders.

President Nixon formally dedicates the new Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in

Austin amid ceremonies attended by Mr. Johnson and 3,000 of his best friends.

defense whose cry a few months ago was

“Dump the church!” says now he wants to be

part of it. He said the party had been “arrogant”

toward the church and the black community

and mistaken in confrontations with police. “All

we got was a war and a lot of bloodshed.”

Vietnam - An enemy rocket with a delayed fuse

burst inside a bunker near the DMZ, killing or

wounding nearly all the American soldiers

inside.

French President Georges Pompidou tells the

British people that France is prepared to help

Britain enter the European Common Market.

Paulette Marie Desell (17) becomes the first congressional girl page in history as

the 182-year-old congressional tradition of male pages tumbles into history.

Wes Storer - a 22-year-old Maine ski instructor says he took his soldier brother’s

place in South Vietnam and the switch went undetected for a week.

Week of May 15, 1971

San Francisco - Three men grabbed a young women, doused her with

flammable liquid and set her a flame. Luckily, police were nearby. One of the

men, with his arm afire, was grabbed by a patrolman - while the other patrolman

put out put out the girl’s fire with dirt. She’s in serious condition.

Passing - Humorist Ogden Nash. He was 68.

Passing - Donald Duncan - the man who gave us the Yo-Yo and parking meter.

He was 71.

Walter Cronkite says "that many of us see a clear indication on the part of this

Administration of a grand conspiracy to destroy the credibility of the press.” He

cited V/P Agnew as the head of the campaign.

Playing in Las Vegas -

Johnny Mathis - Caesars Palace

Juliet Prowse - Desert Inn

Sandler and Young - Flamingo

Wayne Newton - Frontier

Glen Campbell - International

Mitzi Gaynor - Riviera

Don Rickles - Sahara

Danny Thomas - Sands

Radio news -

Humble Harve Miller of KHJ/Los Angeles

sought for two weeks for the slaying of

his wife, surrenders. His dark hair was

dyed red and bushy beard gone.

Music news -

Sugarloaf.

On NBC Saturday Afternoon - “Album of the Month”

and this week - Steppenwolf performs songs from

Steppenwolf 7.

Week of May 15, 1971

Friday night television -

CBS - The Interns, The New Andy Griffith Show, Movie, Merv Griffin

NBC - High Chaparral, Name of the game, Venice Be Damned! Johnny Carson

ABC - Brady Bunch, Nanny and the Professor, Partridge Family, The Girl, Odd

Couple, Love, American Style, Dick Cavett

Brady Bunch - Jan tries to change her appearance by applying a brunette wig.

New Andy Griffith Show - Mayor

Sawyer’s city council honors the town’s

(Greenwood)’s millionth visitor who turns

out to be a bum.

Odd Couple - Oscar begins to have

ulcers and blames Felix because of the

bad food he’s had to put up with.

Saturday night television -

CBS - Mission: Impossible, My Three

Sons, Arnie, Mary Tyler Moore, Mannix

NBC - Andy Williams Show, Movie

ABC - Lawrence Welk, Tom Jones and Friends

Rolf Harris and the Grass Roots.

Tom Jones and Friends - Frank Gorshin, Dusty

Springfield and Paul Anka.

At the movies -

MASH

Song of Norway

2001: A Space Odyssey

Bananas

Dr. Phibes

Little Big Man

THX 1138

Patton

Ryan’s Daughter

Anna Christie

Wild Riders

Summer of ‘42

MASH

Week of May 15, 1971

Week of May 15, 1971