Week of October 17, 1971
West German Chancellor
Willy Brandt
wins the
1971 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to improve
relations with the Soviet Union and the East
European Communist bloc.
Black militant H. Rap Brown - one of the nation’s
most wanted fugitives, is shot by police on the roof
of an apartment house in New York City after he
and three others held up a Manhattan bar. Brown
was once a principal spokesman of the ultra-militant
Black Power movement. He’s reported to be in fair
condition.
Soviet Premier Alexel Kosygin is attacked by a man
on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He was helped by
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who brought him back on his feet. The
attacker - who shouted, “Long live free Hungary” was taken into custody by
police.
Charles (Tex) Watson
is sentenced to die for the
seven Tate-Labianca murders in August of 1969.
Watson’s only defense was that Charles Manson,
leader of the cult - had stolen his mind by
brainwashing and selective administration of mind-
altering drugs.
Vietnam news - A U.S. Air Force plane, following
erroneous clearance orders, bombs a unit of South
Vietnamese troops defending an American artillery
base near the Cambodian border, killing 18 and
seriously wounding seven.
A man beat and robbed a hotel guest at the exclusive St Moritz Hotel in New
York. He planned on making his escape through a window, thinking there was a
ledge. There wasn’t and the robber plunged to his death. A passerby found a
blood-soaked roll of $100 bills and turned them over to police. The guest required
30 stitches after being hit with a lead pipe.
Week of October 17, 1971
Kenneth (Curly) Como - a member of the (Charles) Manson family, saws his way
out of his cell in downtown Los Angeles and lowers himself with a mattress cover
rope from a 173-foot-high window and escapes. He was picked-up on the street
in a van, driven by a friend. He is later captured after a house-to-house search in
West Hollywood.
In sports - The Supreme Court agrees to hear
baseball player
Curt Flood’s
argument that
professional baseball enslaves its players. Flood
began the suit when the St Louis Cardinals traded him
in 1969 for the Philadelphia Phillies. He never reported
to play ball with the Phillies - sitting out the 1970
season while two lower courts rejected his claim. At
issue is something called ‘the reserve system,” which
binds a player to the team that holds his contract.
Once a player signs with a team, he can play only for
that team unless it chooses to trade or sell him. An
unhappy player has the only option of quitting a team if he doesn’t like the
contract terms.
It’s estimated that “
Davey and Goliath
” -
usually seen Sunday mornings on
television stations coast to coast - has
1.7 million children tuning in each week,
according to the Lutheran Church, who
jointly produces the program with Clokey
Productions. Clokey is the only studio
continuously employing “stop-motion”
animation - a technique used
successfully in their “Gumby” series.
Bestsellers -
The Exorcist - William Blatty
The Day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth
The New Centurions - Joseph Wambaugh
Wheels - Arthur Hailey
The Other - Thomas Tryon
Message From The Malaga - Helen Macinnes
Any Woman Can - Dr David Reuben
Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich? - Charles Raw, Bruce Page, Godfrey
Hodgson
America Inc. - Morton Mintz, Jerry Cohen
Week of October 17, 1971
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Capone - John Kobler
Gift Horse - Hildegard Knef
Wednesday Night Television -
CBS - Carol Burnett, Medical Center, Mannix
NBC - Adam-12, McMillan and Wife, Rod
Serling’s Night Gallery
ABC - Bewitched, Courtship of Eddie’s Father,
Smith family, Shirley’s World, Man and the
City
PBS - French Chief w/Julia Child, Great
American Dream Machine, Soul
Carol Burnette - Peggy Lee and Dom DeLuise
guest
Bewitched - Samantha’s father is angered when he discovers Sam and Darrin
have been in Europe without seeing him. Maurice Evans guests.
Courtship of Eddie’s Father
- Eddie’s
bike is stolen through carelessness and
Tom rules that he can’t have a new one
until it’s found. Bill Bixby and Brandon
Cruz star.
Smith Family - Stars Henry Fonda,
Ronny Howard and Janet Blair
Shirley’s World - Shirley joins an ecological battle against an oil company and
local villagers supporting the construction of an oil refinery. Shirley MacLaine
stars.
Late night talk -
Merv Griffin (CBS) - Clint Eastwood and Joan Crawford
Johnny Carson (NBC) - Guest host Joey Bishop with guest Ginger Rogers
Dick Cavett - Woody Allen.
Week of October 17, 1971
Pop charts this week in 1971
-
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down -
Joan Baez
Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee
Michaels
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Superstar - The Carpenters
Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
I've Found Someone of My Own - The
Free Movement
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
Thin Line Between Love and Hate - The Persuaders
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
Imagine - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Two Divided By Love - The Grass Roots
Trapped By A Thing Called Love - Denise LaSalle
So Far Away - Carol King
The Story In Your Eyes - The Moody Blues
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Baby I'm-a Want You - Bread
Never My Love - The 5th Dimension
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin
Gaye
Birds Of A Feather - The Raiders
Rain Dance - The Guess Who
We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Everybody's Everything - Santana
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
I’m Coming Home - Tommy James
I’m A Man - Chicago
That’s The Way A Woman Is - The Messengers
Freedom Comes, Freedom Goes - The Fortunes
Only You Know And I Know - Delaney & Bonnie
Week of October 17, 1971
Midnight Man - James Gang
Top albums -
Imagine - John Lennon
Every Picture Tells A Story -
Rod Stewart
Santana - Santana
Tapestry - Carol King
Shaft Original soundtrack
featuring Isaac Hayes
Every Good Boy Deserves
Favor - The Moody Blues
Hark - Jefferson Airplane
Carpenters - Carpenters
Masters of Reality - Black
Sabbath
Who’s Next - The Who
Teaser and the Firecat - Cat
Stevens
Blessed Are - Joan Baez
Barbra Joan Streisand - Barbra
Streisand
Tea For The Tillerman - Cat
Stevens
Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson
Poems, Prayers and Promises - John Denver
Sound Magazine - The Partridge Family
Close to You - The Carpenters
5th - Lee Michaels
Golden Bisquits - 3 Dog Night
More albums -
Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix (original
motion picture soundtrack)
Silver Tongued Devil & 1 - Kris
Kirstofferson
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
After The Goldrush - Neil Young
Fireball - Deep Purple
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Paul - Paul Stookey
Summer of ‘42- soundtrack
Week of October 17, 1971
Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Mudslide Slim - James Taylor
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Surf’s Up - Beach Boys
First Edition’s Greatest Hits - Kenny
Rogers & The First Edition
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Live In Concert - James Gang
Revolution - El Chicano
We’re All Bozo’s On This Bus - Firesign
Theatre
What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
Hot Pants - James Brown
A Space In Time - Ten Years After
So Long Bannatyne - Guess Who
It Ain’t Easy - John Baldrey
Rock On - Humble Pie
Mary - Mary Travers
Songs For Beginners - Graham Nash
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
At the movies -
Carnal Knowledge
- Mike Nichols,
Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Arthur
Garfunkel, Ann-Margret
Play Misty For Me
- Clint Eastwood,
Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
The Telephone Book
- Roger C.
Carmel, Norman Rose, Barry Morse
Walt Disney’s The Aristocats
-
Chrome and Hot Leather
- William
Smith, Tony Young, Michael Haynes, Peter Brown, Marvin Gaye, Michael
Stearns
The Steagle -
Richard Benjamin, Cloris Leachman, Chill Wills
Billy Jack -
Tom Laughlin Delores Taylor
Born To Win
- George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black
T.R. Baskin
- Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, Marcia Rodd, James Caan
The Organization
- Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O’Loughlin
Friends
- music by Elton John, Bernie Taupin
Skin Game
- James Garner, Lou Gossett, Susan Clark
The Last Run -
George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
