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Following dinner, there was dancing in the Grand Foyer to the music of the Marine Dance Combo. Ford enlivened the party by frugging to the tune of Proud Mary, a rock hit of 1969. That night the Rockefellers became Ford's first overnight guests in the White House. Mrs. Ford offered them a choice of two bedrooms-the Lincoln bedroom and the Queen's bedroom, where visiting royalty have stayed. The Rockefellers chose the century-old, 8-ft.-long rosewood bed in the Lincoln Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Ford: Plain Words Before an Open Door | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...with the problem. Between the two phases of the Geneva Conference, I knew that the Turkish plan was to gain some time. The Turkish plan for the military occupation of Cyprus-a plan involving some 300 tanks, 40,000 troops and masses of heavy artillery-was not dreamed up overnight. It was a plan to conquer Cyprus that was already in existence. It was an expansionist Turkish military plan. I knew that. Two days before the second phase of the Geneva Conference, I asked Kissinger if he would see me to discuss the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Mavros: Greece's Bitter Voice | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...prospering, but Actor Richard Chamberlain has still had some abrupt ups and downs lately. Last week he started out on the Hollywood set of Towering Inferno, a film in which he plummets 360 ft. off a building to a sudden conclusion. Death scene completed, Chamberlain then caught an overnight flight to Rome to play the Count of Monte Cristo, who rises from the dungeon after 14 years. Featured with Chamberlain in the January television special of Alexander Dumas's classic are Actors Trevor Howard as friendly friar and Tony Curtis as villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1974 | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe, which is meant solely for printed matter, not handwritten letters, reads like a home remedy for a Watergate-induced headache: dissolve a milk of magnesia tablet in a quart of club soda and chill the solution overnight. Then pour it into a pan or tray large enough to accommodate a flattened newspaper, soak the newspaper for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Club-Soda Time Capsule | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...hear a good deal of jargon from other women--talk about women's "special needs," the necessity for "role models," the value of "resource people," the usefulness of "support structures." Admittedly offensive language--it accounted for the overnight conversion of many women to a pro-merger, anti-Radcliffe stance--but put into different words, these phrases describe a reality for women at Harvard...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

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