Week of November 8, 1971

The House kills a proposed constitutional amendment to permit prayer in public

schools.

Servicemen, all federal employees and

workers who receive les than $1.60 an

hour are exempted from the post-freeze

wage controls by the cost of Living

Council.

Lewis Powell Jr. - a Supreme Court

nominee, says he could not dispose of

his major financial holdings without

taking a substantial tax loss, but would

disqualify himself on the Supreme Court

from considering cases involving

companies in which he had financial

interest.

Also, the price commission says some

small business will be allowed to

increase their prices to cover higher

costs when the wage-price freeze ends

Sunday of this week. Firms with sales of

$100 million a year or more would have

to get prior approval of price increases

during President Nixon’s long-term

economic controls.

Mariner 9 loops into orbit around Mars

some 75 million miles from earth.

Unfortunately, the first photos are hazy.

Another attempted hijacking as crewmen

on a commandeered Air Canada jetliner

won a desperate struggle to subdue the

plane’s shotgun-wielding hijacker -

knocking him out with a fire ax as he

reached for his pocket and cried, “I’ll

blow you all up.”

A 5-megaton atomic explosion is set off

by the U.S. beneath Amchitka Island -

Week of November 8, 1971

the largest man-made tremor ever produced by man.

President Nixon announces another 45,000 troops will be brought home from S.

Vietnam in December and January.

Aubran W. Martin is convicted on three cunts of first-degree murder in the

slayings almost two years ago of United Mine Workers insurgent official Joseph

A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter.

A researcher reports that the administration of LSD to persons dying of cancer

can produce more tolerance to pain and a calm acceptance of inevitable death.

Joy Piccolo - wife of the late Brian Piccolo, contributed to a new book about her

courageous husband.

Passing - Walter Clark, author of “The Ox Bow Incident.” He was 62.

Passing - Comedian Charlie Manna - who gained prominence in 1961 with a skit

about an astronaut who refused to go into space without his crayons. He was 51.

Sports - The NHL will add two new teams for the 1972-73 season and they will

be Long Island and Atlanta.

Joe Torre of the St. Louis Cardinals,

who led the major leagues in batting with

a .363 average and runs batted in with

137, is the National League’s MVP for

1971.

Music news -

On “American Bandstand” this week -

the 5 th Dimension.

Rock guitarist Roy Buchanan is featured

on a PBS special this week. Bill Graham

hosts the show.

Thursday night television -

CBS Bearcats, Movie

NBC - Flip Wilson, Nichols, Dean

Martin, Johnny Carson

ABC - Alias Smith & Jones, Longstreet, Owen Marshal, Dick Cavett

PBS - Washington Week, Hollywood TV Theater

Week of November 8, 1971

Flip Wilson - Dom DeLuise, the Muppets and Diahann Carroll

Alias Smith & Jones - Heyes and Curry help two nuns.

Dean Martin - Mike Connors, Ruth Buzzi, Dr.

Joyce Brothers and Bobbi Martin.

Johnny Carson - Rob Reiner, Kathy Rigby.

Friday night television -

CBS - Chicago Teddy Bears, O’Hara U.S.

Treasury, Movie

NBC - The D.A., Movie, Johnny Carson

ABC - Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room

222, Odd Couple, Love American Style, Dick

Cavett

Brady Bunch - Peter begins to eavesrdrop

with his dad’s tape recorder.

Partridge Family - Danny is raising hamsters - too many.

Dick Cavett - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

At the movies -

Play Misty for Me

Dagmar’s Hot Pants

The African elephant

The Trojan Women

It Only Happens to Others