News & Economy
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew
Population: 211,908,788
Life expectancy: 71.4 years
Dow-Jones High: 1051
Dow-Jones Low: 788
Cost of a new home: $35,500.00
Cost of a new car: $--
Median Household Income: $10,512.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.08
Cost of a gallon of gas: $0.39
 Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.78
Cost of a gallon of milk: $1.31
News Headlines
US Suspends All Activity Over Vietnam
First Vietnam POW's Released At Clark Field- Philippines
Letter From John McCord To Judge Sirica Implicates Re-election Committee
Senate Committee Begins Watergate Hearings
Presidential Counsel John Dean Implicates President
Archiabald Cox Is appointed Special Watergate Prosecutor
Judge Sirica Orders Tapes Released - Nixon Refuses
OPEC Emposes Oil Embargo
Last US combat troops leave Vietnam
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Music
Billboard Top 10
1. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
3. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight/Pips
4. Brother Louie - Stories
5. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
6. Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston
7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
8. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
9. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers
10. Love Train - The O'Jays
Top Albums
• Brothers and Sisters - Allman Brothers
• Chicago VI - Chicago
• Goat's Head Soup - Rolling Stones
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
• Living in the Material World - George Harrison
• No Secrets - Carly Simon
Grammy Awards
Album of the Year:
Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
Best New Artist: Bette Midler
Best Pop Duo or Group:
“Neither One of Us”, Gladys Knight and the Pips
Best Pop Female Vocal:
“Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Roberta Flack
Best Pop Male Vocal:
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” Stevie Wonder
Record of the Year:
“Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Roberta Flack
Song of the Year:
Killing Me Softly With His Song”
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Movies
Top 5 Movie Money Makers
The Exorcist -$165,000,000
The Sting -$159,616,327
American Graffiti -$115,000,000
Papillon - $53,267,000
Live and Let Die - $35,400,000
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon: Save the Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson: A Touch of Class
Best Director: George Roy Hill: The Sting
Best Picture: The Sting
Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman: The Paper Chase
Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O'Neal: Paper Moon
Television
Americas Top 10 TV Favorites
1. All in the Family
2. The Waltons
3. Sanford and Son
4. M*A*S*H
5. Hawaii Five-O
6. Maude
7. Kojak
8. The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
9. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
10. Cannon
Emmy Awards
Drama...
Best Drama - Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
Best Actor - Telly Savalas, Kojak
Best Actress - Michael Learned, The Waltons
Comedy...
Best Comedy - M*A*S*H (CBS)
Best Actor - Alan Alda, M*A*S*H
Best Actress - Mary Tyler Moore, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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Time Capsule: 1973
National League
Big Bird on Sesame street helps teach preschoolers 
The most single records sold are country and western