Pat Nixon posed to releasing transcripts of White House tapes. A friend told PEOPLE that the First Lady considered them "like private love letters—for one person alone."
Workers' Theme: Strike Up the Land
Northern Ireland's government collapsed on May 28 following a 14-day general strike by extremist Protestants (left) to protest the Catholic minority's growing power. The strike ended on May 30, and Britain's Parliament took over the province's affairs.
Sophisticated Man
Duke Ellington, 75, whose music filled halls as diverse as Harlem's Cotton Club and London's Westminster Abbey, died May 24 after developing lung cancer and pneumonia. "A genius has passed," noted Ella Fitzgerald.
She Made It After All
America's sitcom sweetheart, Mary Tyler Moore, took home two Emmy Awards on May 28 for her work in—what else?—The Mary Tyler Moore Show. (Costar Cloris Leachman got one too.) Today, Moore still hopes to star in a sequel, although ABC nixed the idea last January.
THE HOTTEST!
The Great Gatsby, the screen version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, topped box office charts. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script, and Law & Order's Sam Waterston played Nick Carraway.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
