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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco's Princess Grace (Rear Window, Dial M for Murder). Grace, whose career was made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted by him with "There's hills in them thar gold." As for Hitchcock, he emphasized that there is protocol even in murder. "Nothing more revolts my sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Still another potential hitch is the fact that the Soviets last month abandoned their plan for an east-Siberian oil and gas pipeline and instead plan a railroad that would run roughly parallel to the Chinese border some 250 to 300 miles inside Soviet territory. Among other things, it would carry Siberian oil to ports for export to Japan. The Chinese are probably worried by the idea of a railroad, which also could be used to carry troops and arms. Japanese relations with China have been improving recently, and Premier Kakuei Tanaka is unlikely to do anything to jeopardize that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: A Loan in Siberia | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...despair of N.C. State's 1972-3 exile, when Norm Sloan's roundballers racked up a 27-0 campaign (but could not play in port-season tournaments because of recruiting violations), turned into exultation when a three-day weekend coup d'etat went without a hitch in Greensboro...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: N.C. State Trounces Marquette; Notches NCAA Crown, 76-64 | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

...hitch in an informal royalty system is simple: any one who thinks a collector will voluntarily give a 15% cut on resale back to the artist simply does not know collectors. Scull himself opined that a royalty of 1% on resale would be "reasonable," but that artists should really get their fringe benefits from museums, not collectors. "Museums," he told a reporter, "make their living on shows." ("And he doesn't?" was Rauschenberg's incredulous reply when told of this.) What this cynical proposal would accomplish would be to tax museums - and therefore art education - in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Modest Proposal: Royalties for Artists | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh's Bill Rea hadn't been able to hitch a ride to Princeton's Jadwin Gym with an assistant coach from LaSalle University, Harvard's Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace would be the sole possessor of first place in the long jump competion of the IC4A championships last weekend...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Rea Flies Past Vanderpool-Wallace to Win IC4A's | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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