Monitor: Three Days of Peace, Music and Hee Haw

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| Although coverage of the 25th anniversary of Woodstock may make it seem as if everyone in America under 30 was digging Jimi and Janis in the rain, in reality there were but 400,000 revelers at Max Yasgur's farm. So what was the rest of America doing? A sampling of less historic entertainments enjoyed on the weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969:

Top-Grossing Movies

1. Goodbye Columbus

2. The Wild Bunch

3. Midnight Cowboy

4. Castle Keep

5. Popi

Highest-Rated Weekend TV Shows

1. Hee Haw

2. Mission: Impossible

3. Singer Presents Elvis

4. The Johnny Cash Show

4. The Newlywed Game

5. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: Bird Man of Alcatraz

Top Five Albums

1. At San Quentin, Johnny Cash

2. Blood, Sweat and Tears, Blood, Sweat and Tears

3. Hair, Original Cast

4. Romeo and Juliet, Sound Track

5. The Best of Cream, Cream

Las Vegas Headliners

-- ELVIS PRESLEY -- International Hotel

-- PAUL ANKA -- The Flamingo

-- JERRY VALE -- Frontier Hotel

-- RODNEY DANGERFIELD, JAYE P. MORGAN -- The Sands

-- TRINI LOPEZ -- The Landmark

Fiction Best Sellers

1. The Love Machine, Jacqueline Susann

2. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

3. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

4. The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton

5. The Pretenders, Gwen Davis

News Events of the Week

-- In South Vietnam, a Viet Cong offensive along the Cambodian border marks the end of a two-month lull in fighting and delays President Nixon's decision on further U.S. troop withdrawals.

-- Greeted by a crowd of 2,000 well-wishers, O.J. Simpson arrives in New York to make his professional debut at the Buffalo Bills' training camp.

-- Apollo 11 astronauts are released from quarantine.

-- Los Angeles police search for several suspects in the brutal murder of actress Sharon Tate and four companions.