Week of November 16, 1970

Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird warns of more bombing of North

Vietnamese antiaircraft installations if it is necessary to protect pilots of unarmed

U.S. reconnaissance planes now operating over enemy territory.

Charles Manson takes the witness stand in the

Tate-La Bianca murder trial, in a rambling

discourse lasting over an hour. He portrayed

himself as a universal victim, one of society’s

“garbage people” and denied killing or ordering

any deaths. “I have killed no one and I have

ordered no one to be killed. I may have implied

that I may have been Jesus Christ. But I haven’t

decided yet what I am and who I am.”

Roman Catholic bishops vote in favor of liberalized

rules that would allow Catholics to be married in non-Catholic ceremonies. From

now on, a bishop may give permission for a Catholic to marry a non-Catholic in a

Protestant or Jewish service or in a civil ceremony if there are “serious’ obstacles

to a Catholic wedding. The new rules require the Catholic partner to promise in

advance to do “all in my power” to have the children brought up as Catholics, but

no promise will be asked of the non-Catholic partner.

Ladies - tired of those expensive leather outfits? Sure, you

could go the blue jeans and knit sweater route, but how

about buying a kit for these items - you’ll save big bucks ...

Gaucho pants ($65)

Bolero ($40) and cap ($15)

poncho ($95) and skirt ($60)

Each kit includes precut solid leather, pieces for ponchos

and vests, complete with patterns and instructions.

Princess Grace of Monaco returns to show

business, albeit one night only - the first time

since she married Prince Rainier in 1956. She

starred with Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope in a

charity gala billed as “Night of Nights” in London.

She was a last-minute substitute for Sir Noel

Coward, who fell ill with pleurisy. Her job was to

introduce Hope and Sinatra - each of which held

the stage for an hour, interspersed with

appearances by Raquel Welch and interviewer

Week of November 16, 1970

David Frost.

Rock ‘n Roller Little Richard is arrested at a Miami Beach

hotel on charges of “larceny by trick.” He was booked under

his real name of Richard Penniman. The complaint was filed

on behalf of a self-help program for Negro youths. In the

complaint, Little Richard is accused of pocketing money

allegedly collected for the organization during the Rocker’s

appearance at another Miami hotel last April, when a

collection was taken after his performances. He was released

under bond of $1,500.

Just before he was discharged from the Army - Army disc jockey Steve

Oreskovich performs his last radio show for the American Forces Network in

Europe - but not to the Army’s liking. Every Friday night for a year, the disc

jockey did a show called “Underground” - which was broadcast all over Europe.

Perhaps knowing this would be his last show, Oreskovich went out with a bang

(shows are always taped). The last show contained a series of antiwar folk

songs, recorded speeches of Vice President Agnew criticizing persons with long

hair and readings which opposed the Vietnam War. About 20 minutes of the

hour-long show were aired. Oreskovich had already been discharged two days

earlier. In case you’re wondering, the tape had not been listened to before

airtime.

Bestsellers -

Love Story - Erich Segal

Islands In The Stream - Ernest Hemingway

Child From The Sea - Elizabeth Goudge

The Crystal Cove - Mary Stewart

Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell

God Is An Englishman - R.F. Delderfield

The Sensuous Woman - “J”

Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs - Albert Speer

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex ... - David R. Reuben

Papillion - Henri Charriere

Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

In sports -

(Detroit) Joe Frazier

floors Bob Foster twice and scores a

second-round KO, retaining his world

heavyweight championship.

Week of November 16, 1970

No sooner had Frazier knocked out Bob Foster - Mohammed Ali, seeing the fight

on a closed-circuit broadcast in Atlanta screams “I want Joe Frasier. I want Joe

Frazier.

I won’t have any trouble with Joe Frazier. I’ll show him who the heavyweight

champion of the world is. He never fought anybody. Bobby Foster is skinny and

can’t fight and Jimmy Ellis is skinny and that’s the kind of people he has been

fighting.”

RCA launches the age of

AccuColor. AccuColor -

RCA’s new system for color

television. Model for model,

dollar-for-dollar, the most

vivid, most lifelike, most

consistently accurate, most

dependable color in our

history. And our most

automatic. AccColor puts it all

together, combining the three

features you want most in one set consistently accurate color, fiddle-free tuning

and strong, dependable performance. Performance that’s backed in writing by

RCA’s new Purchaser Satisfaction program - “PS” for short - covering both parts

and labor.

“The first American Car To Meet The Imports Head-On - the American Motors

Gremlin - $1999.

Apple Co says that a triple album by Beatle George Harrison which includes two

numbers written by him and Bob Dylan, will be released November 27th. The

three-record set is entitled “All Things Must Pass” and Apple says it represents

Harrison’s first collection of original songs. Two records consist entirely of new

songs by Harrison and the two numbers he wrote with Dylan. The third disc is a

“bonus” jam session with artists who supported Harrison on the rest of the album.

Morley Safer , the first television newsman to report from

Communist China, is named to replace Harry Reasoner as co-

anchor of “60 Minutes.” He’ll join the program December 8th.

Reasoner departs to become New York anchorman of ABC

Week of November 16, 1970

Evening News.

Actor Martin Milner - who plays officer Malloy on “Adam-

12,” says the series makes neither emotional nor physical

demands on him as an actor, but it has its own satisfactions

for him and his way of life today. “We’re not doing a public

service show, but sometimes it feels like we are.”

Walter Matthau is set to star in the movie “Kotch” with Jack

Lemmon making his directorial debut.

Gene Hackman is signed to head the cast of “The French Connection.” It will be

produced for 20th-Century Fox by Philip d’Antoni and directed by William

Friedkin. Filming is scheduled for New York and France next month.

CBS announces mid-season program changes. Cancelled - “The Tim Conway

Show” and “The Governor and JJ.” “All In The Family” - a situation comedy series

starring Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton and Bob Reiner will debut in the

Tuesday, 9:30p (eastern/pacific) slot in January. “To Rome With Love” - now

airing in this spot, will move to Wednesdays at 8pm replacing the Governor and

J.J. also in January. A revamping of Andy Griffith’s “Headmaster” will find the

series being renamed to “The Andy Griffith Show” with Andy starring as the

mayor of a small town in North Carolina beginning early January at 8:30pm.

ABC cancels seven shows and adds

three. Cancelled from the network are

Matt Lincoln, The Immortal, The Young

Rebels, Barefoot in the Park, Silent

Force, the Most Deadly Game and the

Tom Jones Show. Jones will be back for

monthly specials. Added - the “Smith

Family” starring Henry Fonda and Janet

Blair, “Alias Smith and Jones” starring

Peter Duel and Ben Johnson. Pearl

Bailey will star in her own hour variety

program as well.

Wednesday Night Television -

CBS - Storefront Lawyers, Governor and JJ, Medical Center, Hawaii Five-O

NBC - Men From Shiloh, Kraft Music Hall, S.F. International Airport

ABC - Courtship Of Eddie Father, Make Room For Granddaddy, Room 222,

Johnny Cash, Dan August

Educational Television - French Chief, Civilization, Nader Report

Week of November 16, 1970

Men From Shiloh - The Virginian finds “lost” Shiloh cattle in the heard of a

strange and unfriendly commune.

Johnny Cash - Lorne Greene, Cass Elliot and Kris Kristofferson guest.

San Francisco International Airport - Conrad must

coordinate the emergency landing of a 727 with bad

nose gear. Lloyd Bridges, Clu Gulager and Barbara

Werle star.

Late Night talk -

Merv Griffin (CBS) - Jeannine Burnier, Buddy Ebsen,

Adela Rogers St Johns, Don Grady

Johnny Carson (NBC) - Kaye Ballard, Walter Matthau,

Norm Crosby, Billy De Wolfe

Dick Cavett (ABC) - Kaye Ballard, Peter Viertel, Father Hesbergh, Hal Linden

Pop Charts -

I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family

We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters

Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor

5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love) - The Presidents

It Don't Matter to Me - Bread

Lola - The Kinks

I'll Be There - The Jackson 5

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

- Elvis Presley

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom

Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf

Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond

Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland

Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops

Candida - Dawn

Cry Me A River - Joe Cocker

See Me, Feel Me - The Who

Super Bad, Part 1 & Part 2 - James

Brown

All Right Now - Free

Week of November 16, 1970

Look What They've Done to My Song Ma - The New Seekers

Heaven Help Us All - Stevie Wonder

El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel

Deeper & Deeper - Freda Payne

The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & the

Miracles

Share the Land - The Guess Who

Yellow River - Christie

Lucretia Mac evil - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Fresh Air - Quicksilver Messenger Service

No Matter What - Badfinger

Top Country Single -

I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride

Top Albums -

Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor

Third Album - The Jackson 5

Cosmo’s Factory - Creedence Clearwater revival

Abraxas - Santana

Woodstock - soundtrack/various artists

Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! - The Rolling Stones

Greatest Hits - Sly & The Family Stone

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

A Question Of Balance - The Moody Blues

Close to You - The Carpenters

At the movies -

The Owl and the

Pussycat - Barbra

Streisand, George Segal

Little Fauss and Big

Halsy - Robert

Redford, Michael

J. Pollard, Lauren

Hutton, Noah Berry,

Lucille Benson

Ryan’s Daughter -

Robert Mitchum, Trevor

Howard, Christopher

Jones, John Mills, Leo

Week of November 16, 1970

McKern, Sarah Miles

Dirty Dingus Magee - Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Ann Jackson, Lois

Nettleton, Jack Elam

Whirlpool - Karl Lanchbury, Vivian Neves

WUSA - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Michael

Anderson Jr., Bruce Cabot, Cloris Leachman, Moses Gunn

The Baby Maker - Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox Horne, Sam Groom, Scott

Glenn

MASH - Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert

Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug

Flap - Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Victor Jory, Shelly Winters

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob

Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson

Hotel - Rod

Taylor ,

Catherine

Spaak, Karl

Malden, Melvyn

Douglas, Richard

Conte, Michael

Rennie, Kevin

McCarthy, Merle

Oberon

Joe - Peter Boyle,

Dennis Patrick,

Audrey Caire, Susan

Sarandon

Walk The Line -

Gregory Peck,

Tuesday Weld, Estelle

Parsons, Ralph Meeker

Five Easy Pieces - Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach

Scrooge - Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Alec Guinness

Airport - Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset

Catch-22 - Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Arthur Garfunkel, Jack Gilford,

Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Martin Sheen, Jon

Voight, Orson Wells

Julius Caesar - Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard

Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg

The Twelve Chairs - Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

Darling Lili - Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival

Song of Norway - Toraly Maurstad, Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin,