* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife, Brenda Gee ( the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee ), with whom he had a daughter, Kelley King, in 1972, and a son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., in 1974.

In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was made, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force.

* 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U. S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ) was made by Robert Bresson.

John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews ( 1974 ).

* Robert Hardy in the 1974 television production The Gathering Storm

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Robert Evans quit as head of production in 1974 ; his successor, Richard Sylbert, proved to be too literary and too tasteful for Gulf + Western's Bluhdorn.

In May 1974, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed the second New York Dolls album, Too Much Too Soon.

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

* The Chocolate War ( 1974 ) by Robert Cormier

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

The first retrovirus infecting humans was identified by Robert Gallo in 1974.

Until recently, as of 2005 the x86 architecture did not meet the Popek and Goldberg requirements-a specification for virtualization created in 1974 by Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg.

On 21 August 1974, the Whitlam Government appointed Justice Robert Hope to conduct a Royal Commission into the structure of security and intelligence services, the nature and scope of the intelligence required and the machinery for ministerial control, direction and coordination of the security services.

The Bill of Rights was also invoked in New Zealand in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v. Muldoon and Others, which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that he would advise the Governor-General to abolish a superannuation scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act, 1974, without new legislation.

Robert Peter " Robbie " Williams ( born 13 February 1974 ) is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor.

The SAM model faces serious problems in accounting for long-term recency data ( R. A. Bjork and Whitten, 1974 ) and long-range contiguity data ( Howard & Kahana, 1999 ).

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

* Malcolm Muggeridge, The Infernal Grove: Chronicles of Wasted Time: Number 2, 1974, published by William Morrow & Company, New York.

* Wilkie, William E. 1974.

Twenty world records have been set at the stadium, including John Landy's records on the 1, 500 m and the mile, Nurmi's record on the 3, 000 m and Zátopek's record on the 10, 000 m. In fiction, Nurmi appears in William Goldman's 1974 novel Marathon Man as the idol of the protagonist, who aims to become a greater runner than Nurmi.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

His father was Emmet William Ryan ( 1922 – 1974 ), a police homicide lieutenant in Baltimore, and World War II veteran.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

" Edwards ' biographers, William Luhr and Peter Lehman, in an interview in 1974, called him " the finest American director working at this time.

According to William Lane ( 1974 ), an " unbroken tradition " identifies Mark the Evangelist with John Mark, and John Mark as the cousin of Barnabas.

* Barnard, William D. Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics, 1942-1950 ( 1974 )

* Love for Love by William Congreve ( New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, November 1974 )

On July 24, 1974, in United States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice William Rehnquist, ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were void.

* 1974 — Robert Wagoner, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle show that the hot Big Bang predicts the correct deuterium and lithium abundances

Burr was born Raymond William Stacey Burr in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, to William Johnston Burr ( 1889 – 1985 ), an Irish hardware salesman, and his wife Minerva ( née Smith, 1892 – 1974 ), a concert pianist and music teacher, who was of English and Scottish descent.

The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and great-granddaughter of millionaire George Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army ( SLA ), she ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause.

In early 1974, he was introduced to 17-year-old fan Wende Braunberger at a theatre performance, later marrying that same year when she was 18 and he 54, on October 12, 1974, with Star Trek actor William Campbell serving as best man.

Canadian artist William Kurelek wrote and illustrated a book called Lumberjack ( 1974 ) 0-88776-378-2 about his days working in a logging camp.

In the summer of 1974, the Capitol Records-era greatest hits compilation Endless Summer reached # 1 on the Billboard charts, reaffirming the relevance of The Beach Boys in the popular imagination ; nevertheless, recording sessions for a new album under the supervision of Wilson and James William Guercio at Caribou Ranch that autumn yielded only a smattering of basic tracks.

* William Gardner Smith ( 1927 – 1974 ), African-American novelist