Week of March 8, 1970

The Supreme Court rules that Memphis TN must end school segregation which

the city claimed resulted from neighborhood housing patterns typical of many big

Northern cities.

President Nixon makes a surprise visit to a largely Negro vocational school and

drew both cheers and jeers from students. The President went to Washington

Technical Institute, a two-year school supported by federal funds. “This is all over

my head,” Mr. Nixon said to the computer students and to a coed after riffling

through her textbook, “Clinical Nursing.” As he was leaving, about 100 students

gathered, some cheering, but others shouting “Mr. President, withdraw Carswell”

and “Tricky Dicky.”

himself from a fellow GOP

member’s effort to bring

impeachment charges against

Supreme Court Justice William O.

Douglas, but said his own

investigation of Douglas was

continuing. Ford announced last

November he was investigating

impeachment procedures against

Douglas (71), who was named in a

1953 impeachment resolution that

never got past the House Judiciary

Committee.

President Nixon commits his Administration to a “Bold but balanced” long-term

space program that includes a manned flight to Mars and two unmanned “grand

tours” of the outer solar system.

Former President Lyndon Johnson orders his doctors to get “plenty of rest,”

ended a 12 day hospital stay for a heart ailment and went home to his ranch with

his wife.

Briefing - The Apollo 13 lunar mission next month will be a tad different than

Apollo 12 and will include a landing in a hilly, upland area and provisions to give

crewmen drinking water on moon walks. For the first time, it will slam the giant

third stage of the Saturn 5 launch rocket into the face of the moon with the force

Week of March 8, 1970

equivalent to 11 tons of TNT. Also, there will be a back-up B&W TV camera in

case the color one goes out - as it did with the Apollo 12 mission.

in the Pacific next month will send back the first live close-up television pictures

of the recovery of a team of U.S. astronauts. Previous live TV coverage of

astronaut rescue operations has consisted of transmission by satellite of the

action from the vantage point of the recovery ship.

about his reputation as the “secret swinger” at

the White House. Nixon and his young

assistants are amused that “Henry” frequently

is mentioned and pictured on the society pages.

Kissinger is a bachelor of course.

Five persons are held in New York and

California in connection with the manufacture

and widespread distribution of a new

hallucinogenic drug called PCP which is mixed

with parsley and smoked.

A study - made by Dr. Patricia

Schiller of Washington says that

unwed mothers who tune into

rock music say it turns them on to premarital sex. So do television

soap operas and shows featuring sexy singers such as Tom Jones.

The study was made of 400 pregnant teens and 91 non-pregnant

college girls. The girls studied - aged 12 to 21, said the insistent

beat and suggestive lyrics of some songs excited them to take part

in sex play and sometimes lovemaking. The doctor points out -

“Most of the singers are men and while the girl is sitting with he

boyfriend, the record seems to be saying the things he wants from

her but is too shy to request.” Also “The older girls have been

exposed to many stimuli and they know how to cope. But the music

can be disturbing to 12 and 13-year-olds who are just beginning to

be aroused and have trouble expressing their feelings,” says Dr Schiller, the

mother of two college students.

Charles Manson update - Manson lapsed into incoherence in court and his

newly appointed attorney said he would seek a psychiatric examination of him

because of his “bizarre and irrational” conduct.

Week of March 8, 1970

Susan Atkins fires her attorney and repudiates the story primarily responsible for

the indictment of Charles Manson and five others for the Tate-La Bianca

murders.

Manson girl Linda Kasabian gives birth to a boy. Her husband is Robert

Kasabian, a musician and last reported living near Taos, N.M. She is also the

mother of a two-year-old daughter. Authorities say - the son would almost

certainly be made ward of juvenile court. She’s one of six co-defendants in the

Tate and La Bianca murders.

Huge trend - there are more than 100,000 competitive riders are now in the

American Motorcycle Assn - a “sport” that’s getting bigger all the time. It’s huge

in Europe and seems to be catching on here.

American Motors Corp says it will price its basic model of its new subcompact

car, the Gremlin, at $1,879. The new car, which will go on sale April 1, is

intended to compete with leading imported cars.

Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sen. Jacob Javits of NY will cohost

the third in a series of private screenings of “King! A filmed Record….

Montgomery to Memphis” in Washington this week. The film is a two and a half

hour chronicle of the life of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and will be shown

to the public one night only - simultaneously in 1,000 theaters and 300 cities

across the country on March 24.

In the 15 years since it was founded by author Norma Mailer and a couple of

friends, “The Village Voice” weekly in Greenwich Village has grown from a

community newspaper to one with a national circulation of more than 140,000

almost a third of which is outside of New York! It was originally intended to air the

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leftist views of the rather Bohemian village. It now boasts some 80 ad pages and

is making a lot of money. Stories have a different vibe. Sever Lerner’s

Woodstock story last August lead off this way - “Stoned silly most of the time,

more than half a million freaks from all over the country made the painful

pilgrimage to Max Yusgar’s

600-acre farm to play in the

mud…”

Passing - Erle Stanley

Gardner, author of Perry

Mason. He was 80 and

lived in Temecula, CA.

Music news -

Joe Tex, The Beach Boys

and Evie Sands appear on

ABC-TV’s “Get It Together”

on Saturday morning.

Saturday night - NBC

Bobby Sherman, Jethro Tull

and Ray Charles (see ad).

Grammy Awards - some winners:

Song of the year - “Games People Play” -

Joe South

Best album - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Best new artist - Crosby, Stills, Nash

Best male vocalist - Harry Nilsson -

“Everybody’s Talkin’”

Best female vocalist - Peggy Lee - “Is That

All There Is?”

Best original score - Burt Bacharach -

“Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid”

Best R&B male - Joe Simon - “The Chokin’

Kind

Best R&B female - Aretha Franklin - “Share

Your Love With Me”

Week of March 8, 1970

Best R&B group - Isley Brothers - “It’s Your Thing”

Best R&B song - “Color Him Father” - The Winstons

Best Country male - Johnny Cash - “A Boy Named Sue”

Best Country female - Tammy Wynette - “Stand By Your Man”

Best Country group - Waylon Jennings and the Kimberleys “MacArthur Park”

Best County song - “A Boy Named Sue” - Johnny Cash

Best Instrumental - Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini

Television news -

CBS reruns “The Andy Griffith-Don Knotts-

Jim Nabors Special” Saturday night.

The Ford Foundation announces a grant of

$288,000 to National Educational Television

to enable the Children’s Television Workshop

to complete its first season of “Seseame

Street.” The grant will allow the educational

program, aimed at preschool children, to add

four weeks to its broadcast season,

extending it through May 29. A grant of

$175,000 went to station WNDT (New York

Channel 13), to cover the costs of producing

20 one-hour segments of “Soul, a new series

designed primarily for black audiences.

John Chancellor and Frank McGee will

replace retiring Chet Huntley as the New

York anchormen on NBC’s early evening

news program. The program, now titled the

“Huntley-Brinkley Report” will be renamed

“NBC Evening News” after Huntley leaves

July 31.

Week of March 8, 1970

Don’t Miss “The Young Americans” Special On ABC-TV Thursday With

Lorne Greene and Tiny Tim and “The Committee” Satirical Comedy.