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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1973
Page
4
Hollywood notes recall early TV drama boldness in the 1950s as producers tackled subjects movies later dared. The piece traces the push and pull between cinema and television, noting Westerns and family dramas shaping careers and budgets, with later shifts toward subtler storytelling.
Mumbled OCR text shows partial phrases about news, weather, and a TV lineup with mentions of CBS movies and a house scene, but core details are unreadable.
The Senate confirmed Elliot Richardson as President Nixon's defense secretary by a large margin. One dissenting vote came from Sen. James Abourek who protested presidential influence over Congress. Sen. Harold Hughes supported the nomination but lamented the war policy and urged forthright testimony on conduct in Southeast Asia. Committee Chair John Stennis urged stricter discipline for the armed forces to tighten military posture.
Stokely Carmichael says the New Orleans sniper attack by Mark Essex was retaliation for the November killings of two Southern University students. He cites Essex's actions as a strategic, if violent, response in the Black freedom struggle.
Civilian prisoners of war from North Vietnam will enter Operation Homecoming for medical and psychological care or may opt out to meet reporters. A state department spokesman said reporters can offer press conferences only if the POW consents and remains in the Homecoming program.
A 93 year old south Decorah brick house on East Pleasant Street owned by attorney Carroll Cutting was destroyed by a fire that began in the attic shortly before noon Monday. Cutting, 68, and his daughter Indy, 31, escaped uninjured as Decorah firefighters brought the blaze under control. The cause remains undetermined.
Twenty years ago the federal court of appeals denied a new trial for Alger Hiss, former state department official serving a five year sentence for perjury after denying he was a member of a communist spying ring.
Newly released Pentagon documents claim Britain sought a high visibility role in Vietnam peace efforts, sometimes embarrassing the United States. The Sunflower talks influenced Johnson’s 1967 bombing pause and exposed Anglo American friction over negotiation tactics and timing.
A U.S. district court jury convicted three election judges of forged ballots in the March 1972 primary in Chicago. Two Democrats and one Republican faced guilty verdicts while two other election judges were acquitted.
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