Week of November 22, 1970

The Senate upholds President Nixon’s veto of the bill to limit television and radio

spending in political campaigns.

President Nixon fires Interior Secretary Walter Hickel because of a lack of

“mutual confidence.”

The White House says that the enemy was preparing a major military blow early

next year - probably in Cambodia - and that was the reason for the heavy

bombing of North Vietnam over the weekend.

President Sekou Toure of Guinea says Portuguese forces invaded his Marxist-

oriented nation and appeals to the United Nations for troops.

he would recommend a full-scale resumption

of bombing of the North Vietnamese moved

large forces across the dmz.

A DC-8 jetliner carrying 229 passengers -

most of them military personnel bound for

Vietnam, crashes and explodes during takeoff

at Anchorage. 45 are dead.

An American fighter-bomber strikes a radar-

controlled antiaircraft position 5 ½ miles inside

North Vietnam near the Laotian border. It’s

believed to be part of a larger mission aimed

at a Red supply route through Laos.

President Nixon’s Thanksgiving day

appearance in a double-breasted blue striped

suit with a somewhat wide tie stirred talk that

he was going “mod.”

A man dressed as a priest and identified as a Bolivian freelance artist, attempts

to kill Pope Paul VI with a 6-inch knife in Manila, as the Pontiff arrived on the first

day of his Asian and Pacific tour.

President Salvador Allende is telling 9 million Chileans to kill 10 flies every day.

“If every Chilean did the tiny task of killing 10 flies a day, this country in a very

short time would be a country without flies, said the new leader, a Marxist

Socialist and a physician.

Week of November 22, 1970

President Nixon says he would “use any means possible” to get American

prisoners released from north Vietnam, and these means might include “the

possibility of more raids” or possible prisoner exchanges.

The U.S. commando team that raided the Son Tay prisoner of war compound

north of Hanoi Nov. 21 captured “a few” North Vietnamese and brought them out

as prisoners and they are being questioned.

A civil complaint is filed in Federal court charging the General Motors Corporation

with dumping paint-spray residues into the Hudson River from its assembly plant

at N. Tarrytown, NY. The complaint, filed by the United States Attorney’s office

said GM “knowingly, continuously and unlawfully”

discharged industrial waste into the river in

violation of the Federal Refuse Act of 1899.

I n the latest Gallup Poll - 57% approve of the

job President Nixon is doing.

A 1,800-acre game preserve is being set up 25

miles northeast of downtown san Diego, where

visitors will view wildlife in its natural environment

while riding in electric trains.

Medical -

Physicists and eye doctors have joined in using a

laser beam to correct eye disease. A disease

known as diabetic retinopathy, one of the primary

causes of blindness in the U.S. results in

hemorrhaging blood vessels on the surface of the

retina. Scar tissue leads to blindness. Since the

retina is inside the eye it cannot be treated by

conventional surgical techniques. But a light

beam can reach it.

Sports -

pulls a hat trick in his NHL career - leading the

Chicago Black Hawks to a 9-0 victory over the California Golden Seals.

Stanford’s Jim Plunkett gets the Heisman Trophy. He beat Joe Theismann of

Notre Dame and Archie Manning of Mississippi.

Week of November 22, 1970

Music news -

Cat Stevens at the Village Gaslight on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.

Milt Kamen and Don McLean at the Bitter end. Roland Kirk is at the Village

Vanguard.

no longer have to carry anti-smoking messages once

the ban on cigarette commercials begins Jan. 2 - the

FCC rules. Congress voted last year to ban all

broadcast cigarette commercials after New Year’s

Day, when the football bowl games are played. Since

1968, any of the 7,500 broadcasters carrying

cigarette commercials had been required to grant

free time for anti-smoking messages under the

FCC’s “fairness doctrine.” After Jan. 1 - the FCC

says it will be up to the individual broadcast to run

such messages.

Actor Brian Kelly - best known as Ranger Porter in

“Flipper” remains unconscious following a motorcycle

accident in the Benedict Canyon area of Beverly

Hills.

Dr. Peter Goldmark, president of the CBS

laboratories develops a home color-TV recorder

called E.V.R. It represents the latest development in

the competition of various tapes of video cassettes

and cartridges designed to be used in conjunction

with color TV sets. With a camera - the system can

take 12,000 still photos or make a half-hour moving

picture in one loading.

Monday night football is a hit - Since its Sept. 21

debut - the telecast has had an 18.5 rating and

average audience share of 31. It was the brainchild

of ABC’s Roone Arledge and the NFL’s Pete Rozelle.

It was a way to put ABC on a sports parity with CBS

and NBC and it adds $8.5 million a year from ABC to

the $40 million being paid by CBS and NBC for

football rights. Professional football became prime

time big business in less than a year. Most observers

call the turning point January 12, 1969, when the

New York Jets and Joe Namath upset the Baltimore

Week of November 22, 1970

Colts in the third Super Bowl. Commercials sold for $135,000 a minute. This year

- NBC will get $200,000 for a one-minute commercial in the Super Bowl.

“Wall Street Week” makes its debut over the

Eastern Educational Network, extending from

Washington to the Canadian border - including

WNET New York. The show is produced from tiny

WMPB-TV (channel 67) - in Owings Mills Md. The

moderator is Louis Rukeyser - regular economics

reporter for ABC and the network sees no conflict

here. Mr. Rukeyser will be commuting to Baltimore

from NY as he does both jobs. On the first program

- the cautious consensus of the participants was

that Chase Manhattan’s lowering its prime interest

rate to 7% might brighten Wall Street’s ticker tape.

First guests - B. Carter Randall - a v/p of the

equitable Trust Company of Baltimore; Frank

Cappiello Jr. - W. James Price and Dennis O’Brien.

Saturday night television -

CBS - Mission: Impossible, My Three Sons, Arnie, Mary Tyler Moore, Mannix

NBC - Andy Williams, Adam 12, NBC Saturday night at the Movies

ABC - Newlywed Game, Lawrence Welk, Most Deadly Game

Andy Williams - Jimmy Durante, Mike Douglas, Rick Nelson, Linda Ronstadt.

At the movies -

Five Easy Pieces

Hello Dolly

Walt Disney’s Son of Flubber

The McKenzie Break - Brian Keith

Dirty Dingus Magee - Frank Sinatra

The Vampire Lovers - Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Peter Cushing

Week of November 22, 1970