* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

With assistance from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, St. Francis Xavier University Sydney Campus and NSEIT were merged into the College of Cape Breton ( CCB ) in June 1974.

* Francis Hill ( 1974 ), Victorian Lincoln ; Google Books.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

* The Lavender List ( 2006 ), played by Kenneth Cranham – a BBC Four fictionalised account by Francis Wheen of the Wilson Government of 1974 – 76, with Gina McKee as Marcia Williams and Celia Imrie as Wilson's wife.

The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman.

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

After winning four terms to the Massachusetts House of Representatives between 1962 and 1970 ( and winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970 ), Dukakis was elected governor in 1974, defeating the incumbent Republican Francis Sargent during a period of fiscal crisis.

After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 with an ABJ ( bachelor of arts in journalism ) degree in television, Heard travelled to Switzerland to study at L ' Abri under the influential evangelical Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

While appearing at the Westbury Music Fair in New York, on November 8, 1974, Francis was raped at the Jericho Turnpike Howard Johnson's Lodge and nearly suffocated to death under the weight of a heavy mattress the culprit had thrown upon her.

Renamed as The Saints, in 1974, they played covers of Del Shannon, Connie Francis and Ike and Tina Turner – " exploding them almost beyond recognition with energy ".

* Robert Olby ; " The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA "; first published in October 1974 by MacMillan, with foreword by Francis Crick ; ISBN 0-486-68117-3 ; the definitive DNA textbook, revised in 1994, with a 9 page postscript.

In Francis Ford Coppola's tense character study / spy thriller, The Conversation ( 1974 ), a bugging-device expert ( Gene Hackman ) systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon.

David Francis Dravecky ( born February 14, 1956, in Youngstown, Ohio, graduated from Boardman High School in 1974, United States ) is a Christian motivational speaker, author, and former Major League Baseball player for the San Diego Padres ( 1982 – 87 ) and San Francisco Giants ( 1987 – 89 ).

* 1974 Sir Frank Chalton Francis

Francis was born in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, ( then in Berkshire, but part of Oxfordshire since 1974 ), England to the Rev.

Andrew Francis Bennett ( born 9 March 1939 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was a member of Parliament from 1974 to 2005.

* Robert Towne made numerous references to Mulholland, the California Water Wars, the aqueduct, and the St. Francis Dam disaster in his screenplay for the 1974 Neo-noir movie Chinatown.

* Also in 1974, the movie Earthquake showed the Mulholland Dam meeting a nearly identical demise to that of the St. Francis.

* Francis Brabazon, In Dust I Sing ( Beguine Library, 1974 ).

She attended the ( Roman Catholic ) Our Lady and St Francis School ( became part of St Mungo's Academy in 1988 ) on Charlotte Street in Glasgow ( two years below fellow Labour MP Anne McGuire ), then later the University of Glasgow ( MA English Literature and Modern History 1973 ); University of London ( PGCE 1974 ); and South Bank Polytechnic ( LLB 1992 ).

* Francis Howerd In Concert ( 1974 )

While writing the screenplay of the thriller film The Conversation ( 1974 ) – also about sound recording – Francis Ford Coppola explained in the DVD commentary to that film that he was inspired by Blow Up.

* John Ford ( Tennessee politician ) ( born May 1942 ), American Democratic legislator who served 31 years ( 1974 – 2005 ) in state senate ; convicted in 2007 for bribery

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

Nixon was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pardon of Nixon, immunizing him from prosecution for any crimes he had " committed or may have committed or taken part in " as president.

Allegations of a secret deal made with Ford, promising a pardon in return for Nixon's resignation, led Ford to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on October 17, 1974.

* Ford Elite, a two-door coupe ( 1974 – 1976 )

Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.

Gerald Ford became President on August 9, 1974, and served the final 29 months of Richard Nixon's unexpired term.

President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, resulting in Vice President Gerald Ford succeeding to the office of President.

On August 20, 1974, after having previously considered Melvin R. Laird and George H. W. Bush, President Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him as Vice President.

* Mason Willrich, Ted Taylor, Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards: A Report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, Ballinger, 1974, ISBN 0-88410-208-4

Haig remained White House Chief of Staff during the early days of the Ford Administration until Donald Rumsfeld replaced him in September 1974.

The board of directors decided to diversify the foundation's portfolio and gradually divested itself of its substantial Ford Motor Company stock between 1956 and 1974.

President Gerald Ford visited Ford County on October 24, 1974, on the occasion of the retirement of Congressman Leslie C. Arends of Melvin who served in congress for 40 years, including over 30 years as Republican Minority Whip.

George Harrison, U. S. President Gerald Ford, and Ravi Shankar in the Oval Office in December 1974

Mustangs grew larger and heavier with each model year until, in response to the 1971 – 1973 models, Ford returned the car to its original size and concept for 1974.

Lee Iacocca, who had been one of the forces behind the original Mustang, became President of Ford Motor Company in 1970 and ordered a smaller, more fuel-efficient Mustang for 1974.

In 1974 East Grand Rapids came to national attention as the legal domicile of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, although, as a serving Congressman and Vice-President, Ford had, for all practical purposes, resided in the District of Columbia area for the previous twenty-five years.