Week of May 15, 1973

NASA engineers work to save the crippled space station Skylab, which is

plagued with growing problems including temperatures up to 110 degrees in its

workshop.

Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev will come to the U.S. June 18

for summit talks with President Nixon.

Stock market prices plunge to a 15-month low as jittery investors showed

growing concern over the soaring price of gold and the impact of Watergate. The

Dow Jones average dropped 18.20 to close at 909.69.

Betty Kidder - the wife of a San Francisco school board member says she is a

strong believer in the women’s lib movement and is leaving her husband and

infant daughter to “pursue my own fulfillment and identity.” She told an interview

she would “rather be presenting a case to a jury than be home changing diapers

or taking a child to the nursery.” Too bad her mom didn’t do the same thing.

Communist gunners for the first time since the cease-fire used Soviet-made 180-

mm cannons to bombard

South Vietnamese positions

within eight miles of Hue.

Watergate -

Sen. Barry Goldwater said that

Americans are losing

confidence in their

government because of the

burgeoning Watergate scandal

and urged President Nixon to

reassert himself as the

nation’s leader.

Evidence that a Watergate

cover-up began immediately

after the break-in last June is

presented to a special senate

committee on its first day of

hearings into the scandal.

Week of May 15, 1973

President Nixon personally authorized FBI wiretaps on telephones of ore than a

dozen members of his National Security Council staff in 1969 in an effort to track

down news leaks, so says the White House.

The Watergate case finally broke into the soviet Press but the expurgated

version gave little hint of how Watergate has affected the Nixon Administration.

Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox says the Administration had given

him all the power he needed to wage an independent investigation of the scandal

and he pledges to pursue the inquiry even if it led all the way to President Nixon.

The Watergate bugging scandal and its related developments claim its 12 th victim

when G. Bradford Cook resigns as head of the Securities and Exchange

Commission.

G. Bradford Cook - new chairman of the SEC

resigns after being implicated in last week’s grand

jury indictment of John N. Mitchell and Maurice

H. Stans.

The White House turns aside questions about

whether President Nixon was aware of public

comments regarding the possibility of his

resignation and said the President had “a lot to

accomplish in the second term and he fully intends

to do that.”

President Nixon is pictured as relying on staff-prepared summaries of televised

senate hearings on the Watergate scandal, leaving TV watching to others. He

ordered the special summaries prepared for him regularly under the direction of

Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., his interim staff chief.

Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, says he’s fed-up with all the Watergate talk

and he will refuse to make any more comment on it.

Sports - The Kansas City Royals 33-game hitting streak comes to a complete

stop when Nolan Ryan’s first no-hitter stopped them cold as the California Angels

win - 3-0.

Hank Aaron, the Atlanta Braves hitting champ who is fast approaching Babe

Ruth’s 714 career home run record, says he’s getting hate mail because he his a

black man approaching a white man’s record. “If I were a white an, all America

Week of May 15, 1973

would be proud of me. But I’m black. You have to be black in America to know

how sick some people are. I’ve always thought racism a problem, even with as

much progress as America has made… I’d say the ratio is 60-40, that 60% of it is

of a racist nature.” BTW - Aaron blasts his 684 th homer this week!

Bobby Riggs and Chris Everet agree to meet in a

$50,000 winner-take-all tennis match in Ft. Lauderdale

in September. Said Riggs, “It’ll be the beauty and the

beast.”

Hollywood news - Liza Minnelli says that her

engagement to Desi Arnaz Jr., six years her junior, is

over and she’s in love with comedian Peter Sellers,

who is 20-years older than her.

Music news -

Paul McCartney says that the Beatles might play together again, but there was

no chance of their performing on a permanent basis.

Passing - Vaughn Monroe (62) - bandleader and

singer of the 1940’s.

Television news - Emmy Awards given this week:

Best comedy - All In The Family

Best drama - The Waltons

Best music/variety series - Julie Andrews

Best actor drama - Richard Thomas/Waltons

Best actress drama - Michael Learned/Waltons

Best actress comedy - Mary Tyler Moore/Mary Tyler

Moore show

Best supporting actress comedy - Valerie Harper/Mary

Tyler Moore show

Howard Cosell gets roasted - Just taped this week in Beverly

Hills. On the dais - David Steinberg, Don Adams, Don Rickles,

Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Don Meredith, Redd Foxx, Slappy

White, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Steve Allen, Alex Karras and Merlin

Olson. Steinberg remembered Cosell as “the first man to

broadcast roller Derby to Radio Free Europe.”

Week of May

15,1973

Top TV - Kung Fu tops the

ratings for the first time!

King Fu - 24.3 rating

Mary Tyler Moore

Hawaii Five-0

Bob Newhart

All in the Family

Medical Center

Sanford and Son

Carol Burnett

Cannon

Sonny & Cher

Tuesday night television -

CBS - Maude, Hawaii 5-0, Made

for TV movie

NBC - Movie, NBC Reports,

Johnny Carson

ABC - Made for TV Movie, Marcus

Welby, Dick Cavett

PBS - Black Journal

ABC Made for TV Movie - “The

Family Rico,” Ben Gazzara, James

Farentino, Sal Mineo, Jo Van Fleet.

Underworld pressures of a crime

figure chief.

Black Journal - Features 13

prominent black leaders who

discuss current aims and directions.

Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan,

Haywood Burns, Stokely

Carmichael.

Johnny Carson - Myron Cohen,

Michele Lee, Tommy Tune, Robert

Blake.

Debbie Drake - The exercise queen has a new book out!

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, Medical Center, Cannon

NBC - Adam 12, Cool Million, Search, Johnny Carson

Week of May 15, 1973

ABC - Movie, Dick Cavett

Sonny and Cher - Joe Namath and the 12

Playboy Playmates of 1972.

Cool Million - Stars James Farentino as

Jefferson Keyes, international investigtor.

Search - Agent Bianco learns that an

international assassin’s target is a U.S.

ambassador. Stars James Gregory,

Edward Mulhare, Mary Frann and Edward

Bell.

Saturday night television -

CBS - All In The Family, Bridget Loves

Bernie, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart,

Special-Miss U.S.A. Pageant

NBC - Emergency, NBC Saturday Night At

The Movies

ABC - Here We Go Again, A Touch of

Grace, The Strauss Family, Assignment

Vienna

All In The Family - The Stivic’s recall their

wedding during their second anniversary.

Here We Go Again - Trouble lurks for Judy

and Richard - they have tickets to a Lake’s

game and there’s a bone of contention.

Stars Larry Hagman, Diane Baker, Dick

Gautier, Nita Talbot

A Touch of Grace - Stars Shirley Booth, J.

Pat O’Malley

Mary Tyler Moore - Mary’s favorite couple

is separating.

Music news -

Elvis Presley presents a special Mother’s Day concert at the Sahara-Tahoe in

memory of his mother, Mrs Gladys Presley.

Week of May 15, 1973

Buck Owens just had his name added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in

association of this being Capitol Records “Buck Owens Month”

Richard Nader’s Rock and Roll Revival begins a six-week, 20-city tour of the U.S.

and Canada. The tour includes Bo Diddley, Bill Haley & His Comets, Little

Richard, Chubby Checker, the Shirelles, Coasters, Dion and the Belmonts,

Brenda Lee and others.

The British Government selects the Donovan movie “An Old Fashioned Picture

Book” as one of its two films to be entered in this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film was composed and sung by Donovan.

In England - Detectives arrest singer Dorothy

Squires and others following investigations

into an alleged money and sex “payola” racket

at the BBC. Papers allege that as well as cash

payments, call girls and paid holidays were

used as inducements to disc jockeys to

promote certain records. Ms Squires is the

former wife of 007 star Roger Moore . Her

housekeeper told the press that Ms. Squires

knew nothing whatsoever or what it was all

about.

Music news - Concert record broken . A seven-year record set by the Beatles in

1965 is shattered for drawing the largest crowd to a single concert performance

anywhere in the U.S. Led Zeppelin attracted close to 57,000 earlier this month

(May 5) at the second night concert of their current U.S. tour in Tampa. The

Beatles 1965 record was 55,000.

Lou Adler has turned down firm offers from all three television

networks for Carole King’s free concert in Central Park on

Saturday. Lou’s going to film the event himself then sell it back to

television. This will be the first television appearance for Carole

King.

The all-day Grateful Dead - Allman Brothers - Waylon Jennings

concert at the Ontario Motor Speedway (Southern California) is cancelled by Bill

Graham who says, “Trouble with several youngsters at an April 29 outdoor

concert at Stockton caused Ontario civic officials to take a hear, long look at the

May date.”

Week of May 15, 1973

Seals and Crofts will join Robert

Flack for her first television special:

“Roberta Flack… The First Time

Ever. Look for it June 19 on ABC-TV.

Radio news - (Chicago) It’s finally

happened. John Rook, who was

associated with WLS (AM) for years,

is now consulting rival WCFL and

according to him, WCFL is now

beating WLS. There’s clear evidence

of this as WLS Program Director Mike

McCormick is out. Way to go WCFL - finally!

Top hits in Britain -

Hell Raiser - Sweet

Tie A Yellow Ribbon - Dawn

See My Baby Jive - Wizard

Hello Hello I’m Back Again - Gary

Glitter

Brother Louie - Hot Chocolate

And I Love You So - Perry Como

Drive-In Saturday - David Bowie

Giving It All Away - Roger Daltrey

Top Country -

What’s Your Mama’s Name? -

Tanya Tucker

The Emptiest Arms In The World

- Merle haggard

Come Live With me - Roy Clark

Behind Closed Doors - Charlie

Rich

Baby’s Gone - Conway Twitty

Walking Piece of Heaven - Marty Robbins

Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett

You Always Come Back To Hurting Me - Johnny Rodriquez

Top Soul -

Week of May 15, 1973

Leaving Me - The Independents

Pillow Talk - Sylvia

I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little

More Baby - Barry White

Funky Worm - Ohio Players

I Can Understand it - New Birth

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life -

Stevie Wonder

Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation -

Stevie Wonder

Without You In My Life - Tyrone

Davis

Masterpiece - Temptations

One Of A Kind (Love Affair) -

Spinners

Top albums this week in 1973 -

House of the Holy - Led Zeppelin

1962-1966 - Beatles

1967-1970 - Beatles

Best of Bread

They Only Come Out At Night - Edgar Winter Group

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite - Elvis

Presley

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

Moving Waves - Focus

The World is a Ghetto - War

Neither One of Us - Gladys Knight & The

Pips

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert & Carmine Appice

Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player -

Elton John

Can’t Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan

Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts

Ooh La La - Faces

Spinners - Spinners

Alone Together - Donny Osmond

The Captain And Me - Doobie Brothers

At the movies -

Week of May 15, 1973

Billy Jack - Tom Laughlin , Delores

Taylor, Clark Howat

Slither - James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally

Kellerman, Louise Lasser

Soylent Green - Charlton Heston, Leigh

Taylor Young, Edward G. Robinson

Pete ‘N’ Tillie - Walter Matthau, Carol

Burnett

Shamus - Burt Reynolds

The Harrod Experiment - James

Whitmore, Tippi Hedren

Class of ’44 - Gary Grimes, Jerry

Houser, Oliver Conant

The Day of the Jackal - Alan Badel,

Tony Britton, Cyril Cusack

Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood

Klute - Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

More music/entertainment news -

Dick Clark will be marking the 20 th anniversary of “American Bandstand” with a

special 90-minute show on ABC-TV June 19. It’ll mark the evolution of pop music

through the decades of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s as spotlighted on the show.

Clark still heads “American Bandstand” among a myriad of other TV production

and concert activities.

Don Kirshner, executive producer of the “In-Concert” late-night pop-rock specials

on ABC-TV, acquires exclusive rights to the “In Concert” logo from ABC for use

in packaging of records and tapes.