Week of July 16, 1971

Ernakulam, India - Since July 1,

more than 26,000 men were

sterilized by vasectomy in the first

half of a month-long family planning

festival - the largest ever held in

India. An official says they hope to

sterilize 50,000 men by the end of

the month. Ninety doctors working

in two shifts perform the

vasectomies in 50 operating cubicles set up on the floor of an auditorium.

Operations begin at 9am and continuing well into the night.

Britain’s Conservative government announces major cuts in sales taxes and lifts

all restrictions on installment buying in an effort to boost the country’s sagging

economy.

An editorial in the North Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan

says Hanoi will not accept any peace agreement for the Vietnam War that

President Nixon might work out with the Red Chinese during his visit to Peking.

“Nixon’s policy also consists of trying to achieve a compromise between the big

powers in an attempt to make smaller countries bow to their arrangements.”

Meanwhile, the South Vietnamese government proposes

Initial cease-fire and reunification of North and South Vietnam by means of

general elections. The White says that Nixon hopes to make his visit to Mainland

China well before the May deadline he set as he reveals the plan this week.

Hoax in the National Review ? Smiling - William F.

Buckley , Editor of the National Review said that

publication of so-called secret Vietnam documents

was a hoax. Buckley said the documents were

composed by editors of the magazine “ex nihilo” - out

of nothing. Buckley said the intended purpose of the

hoax, was to demonstrate in regard to the earlier

Pentagon papers “that the Pentagon and the CIA are

not composed of incompetents ... that forged

documents would be widely accepted as genuine

provided their content was inherently plausible ... that

the challenge in Southeast Asia was an aspect of the global challenge to the

West, not a local affair.”

Week of July 16, 1971

Broadway news - “ Fiddler

on the Roof ” becomes the

longest-running musical on

Broadway (so far). This week

passes the 2,845th time on

Broadway, one more than

“Hello Dolly.” “Life With Father” is the longest-running play on Broadway to date -

with 8, 224 performances.

Marry - Lucie Desiree Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and Phillip

Vandervort Menegaux on her 20th birthday.

Passing - “ Ukulele Ike ” (76) - Clifford

Edwards - voice of Jiminy Cricket. His

version of “When You Wish Upon A Star”

sold millions, but Edwards was penniless

on his deathbed. The song was heard

week in and week out on “Disney’s

Wonderful World of Color” on NBC-TV.

The song won an Academy award in

1940. All in all, he appeared in 106 other

movies and sold 74 million records. At

death, no one really knew who he was

and his body sat at the morgue. Hospital attendants said he had no visitors and

listed no next of kin. His name, Clifford Edwards, struck no memory chord.

Sports- Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants,

blasts his 13th grand slam to break a 4-4 tie in the ninth

inning in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. What a

game! Final score 8-4.

Best selling books -

The Exorcist - William Blatty

Passions of the Mind - Irving stone

The Other - Tom Tryon

Penmarric - Susan Howatch

Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The New Centurions - Joseph Wambaugh

The Drifters - James Michener

Sensuous Man - “M”

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Week of July 16, 1971

The Greening of America - Charles A Reich

Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45 - Barbara W. Tuchman

The Grandees - Stephen Birmingham

The Boss - Mike Royko

Myself Among Others - Ruth Gordon

Tarantula - Bob Dylan

At the bookstore - “ Grapefruit” by Yoko Ono . She

describes it her book as conveying her “instructions” to

others to help them help themselves. “It is instructions for

additional acts to make it easier to live. I find it difficult to

live, just ordinary living. At one point for instance, I had to

go to a party of artists. I didn’t want to but I had to. So I tied

one leg up, used a crutch and went as a cripple. Everybody

said ‘Hi, what happened to your leg?’ and talked about that

instead of about me.” She writes on the book jacket “burn

this book after you’ve read it.” The reason she says is

because by then, you should be working out your own

instructions to fit your needs.

Television rankings -

Marcus Welby, MD

Hawaii Five-O

All In The Family

ABC Sunday Movie - “Way Way Out”

NBC Monday Movie - “Banyon”

Medical Center

Love American Style

Mannix

Mod Squad

The Partridge Family

Bonanza

Doris Day

CBS Suspense Playhouse

ABC Movie - “Portrait of Jenny”

That Girl

Mary Tyler Moore

The FBI

The NBC Comedy Theater

Here’s Lucy

Adam-12

Week of July 16, 1971

Music news - Donovan moves to Warner

Brothers Records. He had been with Epic

since 1966 ... Rare Earth joins Sly & The

Family Stone at Madison Square Garden

in September...Sweathog joins the Black

Sabbath tour... The Bee Gees are set to

tour the United States beginning July 28.

First stop is Nashville’s Municipal

Auditorium, then on to Philadelphia,

Atlantic City and New York.

Pop music lesson - What we have been calling music videos since the 80’s are

called “featurettes” at this time in pop history. One company producing these

music videos (actually on film) is a company called the Film Factory out of

Hollywood. This week, Gene Weed from the Film Factory is producing a

featurette with the Motown group “Lodi” and their new single “Happiness.” Gene

Weed himself was a disc jockey on KFWB in Hollywood.

Pop Artists - Cat Stevens is unstoppable these days

- both in singles and albums. Did you know he

originally wrote the hit “Wild World” in the form of a

father warning his daughter about the dangers she

might face as she leaves home? In “Hard Headed

Woman” - he writes about the kind of slick polish

people in the record industry. Stevens (22) came to

pop fame early in England and says he wasn’t ready

for it. “I got into the environment too early. I lost sight

of what I really wanted. I think part of it was being

idolized by all the girls. I was smoking too much, drinking too much and

constantly worrying - that was one of the worst things - so I ended up in the

hospital (landing in a sanitarium for three months with tuberculosis).

Radio news - “American Top 40” with Casey Kasem is

seeing growth in stations, ratings and revenues. Produced

by Watermark in Hollywood, the show debuted a year ago

this month with seven stations. As of this week, some 140

stations carry the three-hour countdown show. The

program is offered on a cash basis to stations (depending

on their rate card) and is breaking even. The producers

believe it will be a cash cow soon.

Week of July 16, 1971

More radio news - Francis Gary Powers - famed U-2 spy

plane pilot shot down while flying over the Soviet Union in

1960 is hired by radio station KGIL (1260) near Hollywood

to become a pilot-traffic reporter.

For the first time - non-commercial television (PBS) will use

commercials on the three networks to promote its fall

season. Look for them on CBS, NBC and ABC. It’s also the

first time one network has accepted commercials

advertising programs on another network. The campaign calls for the expenditure

of $700,000 and will also include the placement of ads in newspapers of the 10

largest television markets.

Television news - The Lawrence Welk Show is leaving

ABC after 16 years on the network. But, the 68-year-old

bandleader is not quitting. He’s lined-up his own ad-hoc

network to syndicate the show, so it will still be produced.

Some say he’s keeping it for the love of the business and

he’s thinking about the welfare of those he and the show

employ. Even after he quits, he says he has good people

to take over things: “Many years ago, I decided I didn’t

want to hire stars. I wanted to build them. Today, I see a

tremendous amount of good in that concept. I truly believe that if I could put my

system, my training program that we have used in our orchestra, in practice

elsewhere, I could be of great help in saving our free enterprise system. This is

my motivation. I think our young people have been terribly misled. We have tried

to give them life, instead of letting them earn it. And it doesn’t work that way.”

TV host shot/guest slain - Merri Dee - host of her

own television show on WSNS (channel 44) in

Chicago and a guest she had on her show earlier,

are shot in her parked Lincoln, near the studio. He

was a salesman who professed skills at mind

reading and palmistry. Both were shot in the head.

He died later. (Merri Dee would later move to WGN).

Bill Moyers, until last year, publisher of Newsday

(Long Island) and a former presidential press

secretary, is set to anchor NET’s new weekly public

affairs series - “This Week.”

Week of July 16, 1971

Monday Night Television -

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

NBC - From a Birds-Eye View, Comedy Theater, Movie

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

NET - World Press, Realities, Current Levels

Comedy Theater - Nanette Fabray , Ricardo Montalban

and John Forsythe star in “In Any Language.

Mayberry RFD - Alice appears to be getting emotionally

involved with her harp teacher Ken Berry, Alice Ghostly

Pop music this week in 1971 -

IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King

INDIAN RESERVATION (The Lament Of The Cherokee) - Raiders

DON’T PULL YOUR LOVE - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

MR. BIG STUFF - Jean Knight

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND - James Taylor

TREAT HER LIKE A LADY -

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

DRAGGIN’ THE LINE - Tommy James

SHE’S NOT JUST ANOTHER WOMAN -

8th Day

THAT’S THE WAY I’VE ALWAYS

HEARD IT SHOULD BE - Carly Simon

WHEN YOU’RE HOT, YOU’RE HOT -

Jerry Reed

FUNKY NASSAU (pt. 1) - Beginning Of

The End

I DON’T WANT TO DO WRONG -

Gladys Knight & Pips

HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY

FEELING AGAIN - Fortunes

BRING THE BOYS HOME - Freda Payne

SOONER OR LATER - Grass Roots

HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - Bee Gees

RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS - John

Denver

WILD HORSES - Rolling Stones

SUMMER SAND - Dawn

MERCY MERCY ME (The Ecology) - Marvin

Gaye

Week of July 16, 1971

GET IT ON - Chase

SIGNS - Five Man Electrical Band

WANT ADS - Honey Cone

BEGINNINGS - Chicago

HOT PANTS (pt. 1) (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) -

James Brown

DON’T KNOCK MY LOVE (pt. 1) - Wilson Pickett

LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH - Isley Brothers

WALK AWAY - James Gang

NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

MAYBE TOMORROW - Jackson 5

CHICAGO - Graham Nash

RINGS - Cymarron

DOUBLE BARREL - Dave & Ansil Collins

RAINY JANE - Davy Jones

STOP, LOOK, LISTEN (To Your Heart) - Stylistics

WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW - Bob Dylan

MOON SHADOW - Cat Stevens

CHANGE PARTNERS - Stephen Stills

RESURRECTION SHUFFLE - Ashton, Gardner & Dyke

Playing on Soul stations -

Whatch See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics

Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin

Breakdown - Rufus Thomas

Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth

Hot Pants Pt 1 - James Brown

I Likes To Do It - People’s Choice

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin

Gaye

Maybe Tomorrow - Jackson 5

Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers

The Love We Had - The Dells

Tired Of Being Alone - Al Green

Stick Up - Honey Cone

K-Jee - The Nite-Liters

Love The One You’re With - The Isley Brothers

Playing on Country stations -

The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall

Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette

Wonder What She’ll Think About Me Leaving - Conway Twitty

Easy Loving - Freddie Hart

Week of July 16, 1971

Someday, We’ll Look Back - Merle Haggard & The Strangers

Quits - Bill Anderson

Good Enough To Be Your Wife - Jeannie C. Riley

I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

You’re Looking At Country - Loretta Lynn

Top Albums -

Tapestry - Carol King

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart

Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney

Who’s Next - The Who

Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon -

James Taylor

B S & T 4 - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Jesus Christ Superstar - Various artists

Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor -

Moody Blues

Stephen Stills II

What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye

Carpenters

Other Albums -

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Up to Date - The Partridge Family

One World - Rare Earth

The Silver Tongued Devil & I - Kris Kristofferson

4 Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

At Fillmore East - The Allmond Brothers Band

Poems, Prayers & Promises - John Denver

Shaft - Soundtrack

Survival - Grand Funk Railroad

Golden Bisquits - Three Dog Night

Live At Carnegie Hall/What You Hear Is What

You Get - Ike & Tina Turner

Homemade - The Osmonds

One World - Rare Earth

Best of the Guess Who

Chase

Week of July 16, 1971

Chicago Transit Authority

I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

At the movies -

Willard - Bruce Davison,

Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester,

Ernest Borgnine

Ryan’s Daughter - Robert

Mitchum, Trevor Howard,

Christopher Jones

Le Mans - Steve McQueen

Love Story - Ali MacGraw,

Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray

Milland

Little Big Man - Dustin

Hoffman

Red Sky In The Morning -

Richard Thomas, Catherine

Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr., Richard Crenna, Claire Bloom, Harry Guardino, Strother

Martin, John Colicos

The Beguiled - Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman

Klute - Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

Blue Water, White Death

Walt Disney’s $1,000,000 Duck - Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony

Roberts, James Gregory

Walt Disney’s The Barefoot Executive - Kurt Russell

The Grissom Gang - Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing,

Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens

The Anderson Tapes - Sean Connery

Murphy’s War - Peter O’Toole, Sian Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson

Death In Venice - Dirk Bogarde

Tora! Tora! Tora ! - Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall, James

Whitmore, Jason Robards

Vanishing Point - Barry Newman

Evel Knievel - George Hamilton ,

Sue Lyon, Bert Freed, Rod Cameron

Plaza Suite - Walter Matthau,

Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris,

Lee Grant

Shaft - Richard Roundtree

The Hunting Party - Oliver Reed,