New York viewers endure football marathon on New Year's Day
An AP report recalls a television dominated New Year's Day, with four football games and bowl parades shaping audience habits. CBS NBC and ABC split broadcasts of the Sugar Cotton Rose and Orange Bowls as viewers balance parades with nonstop game action and waning interest in comedy shows.
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NEW York
CBS
NBC
ABC
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Notre Dame
University of Southern California
Michigan
Penn State
Missouri
Jim Nabors
Television Highlights Evening Schedule
TV listings for 7:30 to 10 include High Chaparral Get Smart The Good Guys Name of the Game Hogan's Heroes Bracken's World Man of a Thousand Faces The Law and Jake Wade NBA Basketball Cincinnati Royals vs Baltimore Bullets. The programs span Ch 2 5 7 9 and 19 26 with a mix of Western adventure comedy drama and sports.
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Max
Kaos
Rufus
Howard
James Cagney
Lon Chaney
The
Law
Jake Wade
Robert Taylor
NBA
Cincinnati Royals
Baltimore Bullets
Gone With The Wind Japanese Style Opens In Tokyo
Tokyo opened a Japanese musical version of Gone With The Wind with a black tie kimono audience. Director Joe Layton barred foreign critics fearing roughness but the show impressed with dance music and acting for a possible Broadway transfer after a three month Tokyo run.
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John Roderick
Tokyo
Scarlett
Joe Layton
Layton
Broadway
Margaret Mitchell
Vietnam
Harold Rome
Toho
Kazuo Kikuta
the Imperial
Rome
Rhett Butler
Kinya Kitaoji
Rhett
Sakura Kinguji
Bow To Bravest TV Weathermen In TV News
New York AP profile honors television weather men Dr Frank Fields of NBC and F Gordon Barnes of CBS. It notes their training and careers, demanding hours, and the challenge of predicting sun or rain on camera. Fields calls forecasting not a pure science, citing intuition and experience.
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NEW York
Weathermen
Weather Bureau
Frank Fields
NBC
Johnny Carson
College of Optometry
Air Force
U.S. Weather Bureau
F. Gordon Barnes
CBS
National. Weather Center
Network
Florida
Theu.s. Weather Bureau
Fields
Missing British wife of executive threat letter surfaces
Muriel McKay 55 wife of Alex McKay, missing from their North London home since Monday, was the target of an anonymous ransom demand. A letter delivered to a suburban newspaper office claimed she would be killed unless the News of the World and Sun stop printing “filth.” Scotland Yard questions ransom kidnapping theory as appeals for concrete demands go unanswered.
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London
Today
Muriel McKay
Alex McKay
Scotland Yard
McKay
News of the World
Sun
Pope Paul Eyes Peace Role In 1970
Pope Paul VI signals continued active peace diplomacy in 1970. A possible peace trip to Hiroshima and renewed outreach to Nigerians and Biafrans highlight his personal efforts, while Caritas expanded aid to war zones. He urged global leaders to work for conciliation and prayed for an end to war.
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Dennis Redmont
Vatican City
Paul
Hiroshima
Japan
Vietnam
Middle East
Vatican
Caritas
Pope Paul
Africa
Uganda
Thieves Active In New Year Robberies Hit Bralove Home and Shoreham Hotel
Bernard Bralove reported New Year thefts totaling 4100 from his home between 9 and 11 PM and about 7200 from the Shoreham Hotel that he owns, occurring within hours of 1960 turning to 1970. No arrests announced.
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Washington
Bernard IR. Bralove
Shoreham Hotel
Bralove
Navy Abandons Salvage of Flaming Cargo Ship Badger State
In the Pacific 1 500 miles northwest of Hawaii the merchant ship Badger State carrying bombs and rockets to Vietnam drifts after its crew abandoned ship. The Navy says salvage is unwarranted due to risk. the vessel may self ignite and the company owner, States Marine Lines, has yet to decide on action.
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Honolulu
Badger
Navy
Pacific
Hawaii
Vietnam
Abnaki
Badger State
States Marine Lines, Inc
Hughes Buys 85 Mining Claims Near Ely Nevada
Howard Hughes expands holdings with 85 unpatented claims in the Red Hills Eagle District about 30 miles northeast of Ely. Existing filings show Hughes purchases in the state rising to 1,740 claims. past buys include 1,178 claims near Austin valued at about 2.9 million dollars.
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Ely
Nev
Howard Hughes
Hughes Tool Co
Red Hills Eagle District
Here
James Mahoney
White Pine
Hughes
Austin
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