Roots dominates summer ratings despite NBC and CBS premieres
ABC’s Roots rerun claims five of the week’s top six spots in Nielsen prime time. The conclusion draws 26.2 rating and 19.1 million homes, with Miss America Pageant at No. 2 and other Roots episodes in the top five. The week ends September 10 amid fall-season launches by CBS NBC.
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Bridge Winners Highlight Marion-Cedar Rapids Competition
Howell movement at Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church produced first place duo Lorraine Golembiewski and Ruth Helm. Several second-place ties and multiple flight winners across 18 and 9 hole events as well as women’s club and guest divisions.
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Friday Television Lineup Highlights Classic Sitcoms And Movies
Prime time features include Bonkers Hee Haw Muppets Newlywed Game Cross-Wits and Hollywood Square. Evening offers Incredible Hulk Starship Invasion Wall Street Week Quincy Fire lines and Dick Cavett plus Tonight Show and Late News.
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Gas price compromise teeters as filibuster ends
Opponents yield filibuster and back rival plan while Sen. Henry Jackson predicts added undecided senators will tip the White House over the top. A Senate timetable sets a 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday vote on returning the gas pricing bill to a conference committee with a possible final vote September 27. The plan would end price controls on most natural gas in 1985 and permit price increases until then. On this date in 1938 Chamberlain traveled to Germany to mediate the German Czechoslovak dispute.
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