Week of April 16, 1971

President Nixon defends J.

Edgar Hoover against what he

terms “unfair and malicious”

criticism saying he’s a victim of

a “bad rap.” The President also

rejected any suggestion that

surveillance activities by the FBI

or the Army have turned the

U.S. into a police state. The

President said that attacks on

Hoover would make him ‘dig in” rather than retire.

The Supreme Court upholds cross-town bussing and other steps to break down

school segregation. The rulings are he most significant in the desegregation area

since the court declared unconstitutional, separate public schools for whites and

blacks in 1954.

President Nixon urges Republican governors to help him reform a welfare system

under which he said a man “ca be rewarded for doing nothing.” He said there

was as much dignity in scrubbing floors or emptying bedpans as in any other

work, including being the President.

Consumer prices receded to the lowest rate in four years during the first three

months of 1971 - only 2.7% on a seasonally adjusted annual basis.

Hugh Hefner conducts a housewarming party for his new $1 million Playboy

Mansion West near Beverly Hills. Attending - such guests as Jon Voight, Peter

Lawford, Ryan O’Neal, Jim Brown and of course, Barbie Benton.

Marries - Dino

Martin - son of Dean

Martin to actress

Olivia Hussey.

Six members of the

U.S. table tennis

team, part of the first

American group of any

kid to visit Mainland

China since 1949,

arrive with praise for

premier Chou en-lai.

Week of April 16, 1971

The Vatican’s daily newspaper - L’Osservatore Romano said that an audience

Pope Paul VI gave to rock music groups including girls in hot pants did not mean

he condones ‘the lapses and errors and myths of a world in a shameful crisis.”

The late Lenny Bruce, a comedian with a penchant for four-letter words, will be

the subject of a Broadway play produced by Michael butler, producer of “Hair.”

Titled “Lenny” it will be based on the words and life of the comedian. It will open

May 24 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Cliff Gorman plays Lenny.

Sports -

George Sauer Jr. the premier wide receiver for the New York Jets, informs the

club he is retiring. “I am dissatisfied with football as it is being played now - to be

a player is to be treated like a child.”

Music news -

ABC broadcasts “Diana!”

with Diana Ross, the

Jackson 5, Bill Cosby and

Danny Thomas. It’s

produced by Motown

Productions. The original

TV soundtrack is now

available on Motown

Records and this is

Motown’s first self-

produced TV show. Diana

Ross is set to star in a $5

million budget production

of blues singer Billie

Holiday’s life and is clearly

being groomed as a

superstar. Says Berry

Gordie - “Diana has yet to

reach her potential. In the

television special, she

does Harpo Marx, Charlie

Chaplin, people like that. We didn’t know if se could do it when we started. But

she became Harpo Marx, she became Charlie Chaplin for that show. We

wouldn’t let her go to drama school we wanted her to be herself. But we didn’t

realize she cold be this versatile until this special. We never really knew the full

range of her talent.”

Week of April 16, 1971

More Motown - Besides “Diana” and the Billie Holiday film, Look for Motown to

produce some 90-minnute ABC-TV movies and an animated Jackson 5 television

series and a package of summer television variety specials in 1971.

The Carpenters will be hosts of a new summer series on NBC - “Make Your Own

Kind of Music.” The Doodletown Pipers and Mark Lindsay will be regulars on the

program. A top music star will be featured each week as well.

Art Garfunkle is teaching geometry at the Litchfield Preparatory School in

Connecticut. He is expected to continue through the end of the semester.

At the 43 rd Annual Academy Awards - some winners:

Best picture - “Patton.”

Best actor - George C. Scott -

“Patton”

Best actress - Glenda

Jackson - “ Women in Love”

Best director - Franklin J.

Schafner - “Patton.”

Best supporting actor - John

Mills - “Ryan’s Daughter”

Best supporting actress - Helen

Hayes - “Airport”

Best original song score -“Let It

Be” - The Beatles

Television news -

ABC’s “Wide World Of Sports” will be turning 10 years old next week and an

anniversary program will recap highlights. Jim McKay hosts.

Arte Johnson is leaving Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh-In.”

Hugh Downs - host of “Today” on NBC-TV will take leave

of the program in October. He’s been doing it for nine

years.

Tuesday night television -

CBS - Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Hee Haw, All in the Family, Special-

Justice in America, Merv Griffin

NBC - Julia, Don Knotts, NBC Tuesday night at the movies, Johnny Carson

ABC - Mod Squad, Movie, Marcus Welby, MD, Dick Cavett

Net - The Advocates

Week of April 16, 1971

Mod Squad - Sammy Davis Jr. guest stars about a ruthless movie star whose life

is threatened.

Don Knotts - Bill Cosby, Florence

Henderson and Glenn Ash guest.

Hee Haw - Tammy Wynette and Ed Bruce

guest.

All in the Family - Upon hearing Meathead

has written a letter to the President, Archie

writes an opposing letter.

Johnny Carson - Joey Bishop guest hosts. James Brown and Jackie Vernon are

guests.

At the movies -

Song of Norway

Love story

The Andromeda Strain

Woodstock

Airport

Ryan’s Daughter

They Might Be Giants

Tora! Tora! Tora!