Week of June 23, 1970

The National Commission on Product Safety urges President Nixon and

Congress to establish a permanent watchdog agency with broad investigative

standard-setting and enforcement powers to protect the public against

unreasonable hazards. “The most dangerous years are below age 5,” the

commission reports. “Approximately 7,000 children under 15 die each year in

home accidents - a death toll higher than that of cancer and heart disease

combined,” it said. “More than 2 million children every year are injured while

using bicycles or playground equipment.” Also, the report said, falls in the home

kill about 12,000 a year and injure 6.9 million from a variety of causes.

President Nixon signs legislation lowering the voting

age next year to 18, despite misgivings about its

constitutionality. He directed Atty Gen John N. Mitchell,

to help speed a court test to clear up “confusion and

uncertainty” surrounding the constitutional issue. The

President said 18-year-old should be given the vote by

constitutional amendment. He urged Congress to pass

an amendment now “because the likelihood that that the

18-year-old vote provision of this law will not survive its

court test.”

The Senate votes to repeal the 1961 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the original legal

underpinning for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Forty-four die in world cup celebrations in Rio - where Brazil won over Italy. Most

of the cases concerned burns by fireworks, falls, heart attacks and gunshots

along with a large number of traffic accidents.

The last of 31,000 American troops in Cambodia begin their pullback to Vietnam.

President Nixon has ordered a Tuesday pullout of all troops in the area

Mercury astronaut L. Gordon Cooper - one of America’s

first, says he is resigning from the space program on July

31, “to become a Washington business executive.”

Population expert Paul Ehrlich, writing in the current issue

of McCall’s magazine, says the federal government should

pay women each year between the ages of 15 and 28 in

which she does not bear children as a means of reversing

the U.S population boom and reducing environmental

pollution. He also warned mothers who have more than

Week of June 23, 1970

two children that “they are unknowingly contributing to the early death of those

children.” “We, along with the citizens of other overdeveloped countries are

engaged in a helter-skelter race to destroy the capacity of the Earth to support

human life.”

In a Gallup Poll - a majority of adults -

56% believe we made a mistake sending

troops to fight in Vietnam. In the previous

survey in April, the percent was 51%.

Last September - it was at 58%. In

August, one year after the bay of Tonkin

incident - 24% of all persons interviewed

said they believed it a mistake to have

become involved in the war. The

percentage climbed to 35% in 1966, 46%

in 1967, to 58% last September.

William Dyer (32), a Negro cab driver in Columbus, writes to 20th Century-Fox to

protest the casting of white actors to play members of the 761st Tank Battalion in

“Patton.” Dyer says the 761st was the first Negro tank battalion in Europe. “But in

the movie, the men are white. I admire the story and the way it portrayed Patton,

But it mentions this unit, says they marched over 100 miles to fight and win a

major battle, then lets the world believe it was white men.”

At the store for the ladies - long, clinging tank-tops. “Long, clinging but easy lines

... gleaming nylon and acetate jersey knits. In strips, florals and solids - 2 for $3.

Best selling books -

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles

Love Story - Erich Segal

Losing Battles - Eudora Welty

Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene

Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

A Beggar in Jerusalem - Elie Wiesel

Up The Organization - Robert Townsend

The Sensuous Woman - J

The New English Bible

Human Sexual Inadequacy - William

Masters/Virginia Johnson

Hard Times - Studs Terkel

Week of June 23, 1970

Memorial dedicated to JFK - In Dallas, A

concrete memorial “to the joy of one man’s life”

is dedicated to John F. Kennedy 200 yards

from the spot where he was assassinated. An

estimated 250 persons watched the dedication

of the three-story memorial. No Kennedy family

members were in attendance.

Television news - Fred Silverman (32) - steps-in as head of programming for

CBS-TV, replacing Michael Dann.

Cartoon producers Hanna-Barbera are making

another go at a prime-time cartoon series. This

summer, look for “ Where’s Huddles ?” It gets a

10-week tryout, replacing “Hee Haw” on CBS-TV.

Hanna-Barbera haven’t had a successful prime-

time cartoon series since “The Flintstones, which

ran for six years on ABC. Says Joe Barbera - “I

thought we had it with the Jetsons. We tested it six

times in one of those testing rooms where the

audience is hooked up with wires to record every

reaction - and all six times, the results were sensational. ABC put it on the air -

and nothing. Of the new cartoon series “Where’s Huddles? - Barbera says - “With

the Flintstones, we tried a lot of ideas before we made them cavemen and put

them in those skins. Here we tried to find a formula close to sports and we think

we have it with couple of families of pro football players. Ed Huddles is the

quarterback of a team called the Rhinos. Bubba McCoy, who lives next door, is a

bumbling center. On the other side of Huddles, lives a character named Pertwee

who hates football, calls these guys savages and tries to get them out of the

neighborhood. Paul Lynde does Pertwee’s voice.

Appearing at the Troubadour in Hollywood this week

- Linda Ronstadt and Kris Kristofferson, where he is

making his debut as a performer.

Movie news - Clint Eastwood will be everywhere -

Two studios - MGM and Universal, open two of his

films - “Kelly’s Heroes” and “Two Mules for Sister

Sara” on the same day.

Week of June 23, 1970

Dennis Hopper sues actor Peter Fonda and his

Pando Co. The suit is for an accounting and to

establish a third interest in the film “Easy Rider.”

Under an agreement originally made in 1968 and

amended twice later, the suite said it was stipulated

that Hopper would receive a third of the profit from

the film.

Appearing this Saturday on ABC-TV’s “American

Bandstand” - Trini Lopez.

Saturday night television -

CBS - The Jackie Gleason Show, My Three Sons, Green Acres, Petticoat

Junction, Mannix

NBC - Ray Stevens Show, Adam-12, NBC Saturday Night At The Movies

ABC - Coaches All-America Football, Lawrence Welk

My Three Sons - Katie panics when she detects a few gray hairs in her head and

it touches off a family crisis. Stars Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Beverly

Garland, Don Grady, Tina Cole

Green Acres - All Hooterville turns out for a

triumphant welcome home to Oliver, Lisa

and Arnold, now a millionaire pig.

Pop music this week in 1970 -

The Love You Save - The Jackson

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations

Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog

Night

Ride Captain Ride - The Blues Image

Which Way You Goin' Billy? - The Poppy

Family featuring Susan Jacks

Get Ready - Rare Earth

Hitchin' a Ride - Vanity Fare

O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps

The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

Lay Down (Candles In the Rain) - Melanie

with the Edwin Hawkins Singers

The Wonder of You - Elvis Presley

Week of June 23, 1970

Make It With You - Bread

My Baby Loves Lovin' - White Plains

United We Stand - The Brotherhood of Man

Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria) - Miguel Rios

Westbound #9 - Flaming Ember

Tighter, Tighter - Alive & Kicking

Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins

Teach Your Children - Crosby,

Stills, Nash & Young

Mississippi - John Phillips

Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash &

Young

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Sugar, Sugar - Wilson Pickett

(They Long to Be) Close to You -

The Carpenter

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm

Yours - Stevie Wonder

Question - Moody Blues

Summertime Blues - The Who

Some Albums -

Self Portrait - Bob Dylan

Let it Be - The Beatles

McCartney - Paul McCartney

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash &

Young

Music From Butch Cassidy - Burt

Bacharach

5th Dimension’s Greatest Hits

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again -

Dionne Warwick

Chicago - Chicago

It Ain’t Easy - Three Dog Night

Live at Leeds - The Who

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood,

Sweat & Tears

Hair - original cast

Rare Earth - Rare Earth

Poco - Poco

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Week of June 23, 1970

At the movies -

Patton - George C. Scott

Darling Lili - Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson

Watermelon Man - Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons

Myra Breckinridge - Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah

Fawcett, Roger Herren, Calvin Lockhart, John Carradine

Catch-22 - Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart,

Anthony Perkins

Let it Be - The Beatles

MASH - Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland

The Out-Of-Towners -

Jack Lemmon, Sandy

Denis

A Boy Named Charley

Brown

Marooned -

Beneath The Planet of the

Apes - James Franciscus,

Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans,

Linda Harrison, Paul

Richards, Victor Buono,

James Gregory, Jeff Corley, Charlton Heston

Beyond The Valley of the Dolls (Screenplay by Roger Ebert ) - Dolly Read,

Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett.

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City - Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors,

Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi

Getting Straight - Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen

The Cheyenne Social Club - James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue

Anne langdon

Airport - Burt Lancaster, Jean Seberg, Dean Martin