Week of August 22, 1971

A Berlin agreement to end the 26-year harassment of West Berlin by the

Communist powers is completed by the ambassadors of the four powers of

World War II. Among the details - The Russians agreed to accept with the three

Western powers, responsibility to keep traffic flowing in and out of the city.

San Quentin prison break - three guards and three

convicts are killed during an attempted escape from

san Quentin State Prison. One of the prisoners was

Brothers.

Japan’s yen gains 5.19% in value in relation to the

dollars as the nation abandoned its fixed exchange

rate of 360 yen to the dollar for the first time in 22

years.

President Nixon approves the text of the four-power Berlin agreement and

predicts its final signing would be a “major step in relieving world tension.”

Administration officials tell Congress for the first time that they are considering

the establishment of wage-price review board when President Nixon’s temporary

wage-price-rent-freeze expires November 13.

Women’s liberationists disrupt trading at the American Stock exchange, tried to

sponsored the “Women’s Rights Day” events culminating with the march and a

mass rally in Central park to demand full equality.

The Cost of Living Council decides that automobile dealers could sell their 1972

models at the price for which 1971 models sold when they were first introduced.

Licenses delayed - The Nevada State gaming Commission votes against

licensing corporate changes for Howard Hughes, the absentee owner of seven

Week of August 22, 1971

casinos, unless and until Hughes himself communicates satisfactorily with the

commission.

Martin is called as a state witness in the trial of

Charles (Tex) Watson for the seven Tate-La

Bianca murders. She recalled that in July or

October 1968, she and Terry Melcher attended a

party at the home of Dennis Wilson, a drummer

with the Beach Boys. About dusk, she said, the

party moved to the home of Melcher, the same

residence, which, under lease to producer Roman

Polanski, was to be the setting for the slaying of

Polanski’s wife and others. Terry Melcher testified

he met Watson in December 1968 at Wilson’s

home a number of times. “He was a friend of

Wilson and Gregg Jakobson, who worked for me as a talent scout and he was

always tagging around with them when they came to see me” said Melcher.

Chicago - Cook County State’s Atty. Ed Hanrahan, a top assistant and 12 other

law officers are indicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with a

police raid in which two Black Panthers were killed. Slain were Panther leaders -

Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Four Panthers were wounded.

also appeared on “What’s My Line?” He was 73.

Passing - Ted Lewis (80) - last of the great vaudeville

performers.

Artist Peter Max has created a line of sneakers for Kinney’s

Shoes. They are called the Zapper, the Flasher, the

Grinner and the Smiler.

Week of August 22, 1971

Sports -

The New York Giants announce the will move across the Hudson River to New

Jersey no later than the 1975 football season and become the first major league

football team in the history of New Jersey.

World record holder Mark Spitz of the Arden Hills Swim Club wins a duel down

the stretch with Larry Heidenreich to take the men’s 200-meter free-style in

Houston.

Music news -

More than 1,000 persons crowd into St Peter’s Lutheran

attending - Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the Rev.

Jesse Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Mann. His real

name was Curtis Ousley.

Television news -

Beginning October 12, Dick Cavett will host a series of

one-guest programs on ABC-TV. Scheduled are Woody

Allen Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and others.

George Peppard is signed by Universal to star in “Banacek,” a World Premiere

TV movie for NBC. It could also be a TV series.

on “Perry Mason,” will be reunited with him in an upcoming

“Ironside” title “Murder Impromptu.”

Monday night television -

CBS - Gunsmoke, Lucy Show, Mayberry RFD, Doris Day,

Newcomers, Merv Griffin

NBC - Allan, Comedy Theater, Movie, Tonight

Week of August 22, 1971

ABC - Let’s Make a Deal, Newlywed Game, It Was A Very Good Year, Movie,

Dick Cavett

Educational TV - Evening at Pops

Pilot - Allan - Comedy abut a hardware dealer who runs into

problems with his son Allan, an anti-establishment college

Comedy Theater - Stars Robert Young and David Wayne as a

father-and-son team of private detectives in “Holloway’s

Daughters.”

At the movies -

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Billy Jack

The Touch - Elliot Gould, Bibi Anderson

Ryan’s daughter

Willard

Summer of ‘42