However, his efforts were frustrated by political turmoil and a devastating drought between 1968 to 1974, in which famine killed thousands of people.

Although divisional restructuring in 1974 included a revamped format in which three teams in each division made the playoffs, the team's efforts were frustrated by their placement in the Adams Division, with the strong Buffalo, Boston, and Toronto teams of the day.

In the 1974 entry draft, Imlach — frustrated with the excessive tedium and length of that year's draft proceedings — deliberately selected an imaginary Japanese center, Taro Tsujimoto, supposedly of the Tokyo Katanas, in the 11th round ( 183rd overall ).

By 1974, Lee grew frustrated by an increasing lack of roles, and took a job co-hosting the daytime game show High Rollers.

First published 1974 by Morrow.

In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.

In 1974, long-time mayor Lewis Easterlin and a group of concerned citizens decided to promote tourism in the town by turning the clock back and making Andersonville look much as it did during the American Civil War.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

The imaging atom probe ( IAP ), invented in 1974 by J.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Ruth's lifetime record of 714 home runs stood until 1974 when it was surpassed by Hank Aaron.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

On September 19, 1974, however, the consortium was shaken by the kidnapping of siblings Jorge and Juan Born by the far-left terrorist group, Montoneros.

( 2009, p. 189 ) Bliss complaints about his symbols “ being abused ” by the OCCC became so intense that the director of the OCCC told Bliss, on his 1974 visit, never to come back.

1973 ); Charles Berlitz ( The Bermuda Triangle, 1974 ); Richard Winer ( The Devil's Triangle, 1974 ), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

* The Devil's Triangle, ( 1974 ), Richard Winer ( ISBN 0553106880 ); this particular book sold well over a million copies by the end of its first year ; to date there have been at least 17 printings.

Since 1974, it has been a purely ceremonial style granted by royal charter to districts which may consist of a single town or may include a number of towns or rural areas.

This entry deals with the Breviary prior to the changes introduced by Pope Paul VI in 1974.

He was also a panelist on the 1974 revival of Masquerade Party hosted by Richard Dawson.

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

The government made three unsuccessful attempts to enter into negotiations with the insurgents, but by 1974, the CPK were operating openly as divisions, and some of the NVA combat forces had moved into South Vietnam.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

In November 1974, Science for the People went public with their objections to the Boston XYY study in a press conference and a New Scientist article alleging inadequate informed consent, a lack of benefit ( since no specific treatment was available ) but substantial risk ( by stigmatization with a false stereotype ) to the subjects, and that the unblinded experimental design could not produce meaningful results regarding the subjects ' behavior.

This lack of success caused her agent Dick Katz to recommend Dana join Dick Leahy ( former head of Bell Records UK ) on his new GTO record label formed in 1974.

A fifth anniversary edition of the paper was not published in October 1974 because of a lack of revenue and interest, marking the only time the paper failed to publish an edition in its history.

A study by aeronautical and mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1974 concluded that the aircraft described in the text were " poor concoctions " and that the author showed complete lack of understanding of aeronautics.

Blue Ash toured and opened for such acts as the Stooges, Bob Seger, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and more but for lack of sales they were dropped by Mercury Records in May, 1974.

The line between Benapole in Bangladesh and Petrapole in West Bengal was closed due to lack of commercial interest in 1974.

Hees tried to plead self-defence, which failed due to the lack of imminent harm anticipated by him ( MacDonald v. Hees ( 1974 ), 46 D. L. R.

Many documents lack any title at all ( whereas for later stories they are clearer ), including the 1974 BBC Enterprises listing A Quick Guide to Doctor Who, which was the main source of titles for most early fan reference works.

Max Trac was dropped from the option list after 1974 due lack of buyer interest.

Another crisis flared in July 1974 within the NATO alliance when Turkish forces, concerned about the long-term lack of safety for the minority Turkish community, invaded Cyprus after the Cypriot National Guard, supported by the government of Greece, overthrew President Archbishop Makarios.

Despite this lack of pressure to succeed, the match on 22 June 1974 in Hamburg was politically and emotionally charged.

The lack of a main attraction led to the decline in the popularity of the fun fair and its eventual closure in 1974.

Stonehenge emerged as the most important free festival after the violent suppression of the Windsor Free Festival, in August 1974, and the lack of success in finding a permanent home for the People's Free Festival, after Watchfield 1975.

The project was started in 1974 but abandoned shortly after, and left dormant into the 1980s due to the lack of availability of low-profile tires at the time.

The combination ensured that the band was a hit on Britain's festival circuit, but lack of record sales, indifference from music critics, and poor record label promotion ( especially in the US ) led to its eventual demise in 1974.

When he did come back, it was with just one appearance in the 1974 season, thereby missing out on a League championship medal-Leeds won it at a canter with a 29-match unbeaten start-due to a lack of games.

Despite all the wars, there were still some historic buildings left in the city center of St. Wendel until 1960, but under mayors Franz Gräff ( 1956 – 1974 ) and Jakob Feller ( 1974 – 1982 ), a lack of historic interest and economically oriented sanitation destroyed a lot of them.

On 26th June 1974, the bank's license was withdrawn by German regulators at the end of the banking day ( 4: 30pm local time ) because of a lack of income and capital to cover liabilities that were due.

Despite her retraction of these claims, the lack of any corroborating evidence against her, and serious gaps in her testimony – which was frequently rambling, incoherent and " improbable ", – she was wrongfully convicted in November 1974.

Finding that the lack of linguistically appropriate accommodations ( e. g. educational services in English ) effectively denied the Chinese students equal educational opportunities on the basis of their ethnicity, the U. S. Supreme Court in 1974 ruled in favor of the students, thus expanding rights of students nationwide with limited English proficiency.

It was a failure upon original release, but after its copyright was not renewed properly in 1974 ( in part due to a lack of interest in doing so by producer Frank Capra ), it became public domain for nearly two decades.