Office Pool, 1975; ESSAY
Date: 30 December 1974
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire lists '75 predictions
R. Sundarrajan (director) Birthday, Date of Birth
R. Sundarrajan is an Indian film director, actor, comedian and writer for Tamil language films. Active primarily in the 1980s and the 1990s as a filmmaker, he appeared more often as an actor thereafter. Sundarajan is known for his silver jubilee films such as Payanangal Mudivathillai (1982), Vaidehi Kathirunthal (1984), Rajadhi Raja (1989) and Thirumathi Palanisamy (1992). During his career as a director, he frequently collaborated with veteran actor Mohan.
He had directed over 25 films in his illustrious career and most of them became profitable ventures in the box office. he worked as a co-director for Suyamvaram (1999) which had a team of 14 directors. He has shared screenspace with prominent actors including Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vijayakanth, Sathyaraj, Ajith Kumar, Vijay and Suriya.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Sunday, December 29, 1974
- Place of Birth
- Dharapuram
- Age
- 50
- Star Sign
- ♑
The December 29, 1974 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 362 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 50 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, December 29, 2024, 300 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, December 29, 2025, in 64 days. You have lived for 18,563 days, or about 445,523 hours, or about 26,731,412 minutes, or about 1,603,884,720 seconds.
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29th of December 1974 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 29, 1974
MORE OPEN C.I.A. SOUGHT BY COLBY; Intelligence Director Asserts He Has a Duty to Explain, in Part, Agency's Role Vietnam, Watergate Influence
Date: 29 December 1974
By DAVID BINDERSpecial to The New York Times
CIA Dir William E Colby has made more public appearances, spoken to more reporters and testified more often before Cong in 1st 16 mos of his taking office than any of his predecessors; Colby has said on record that he believes these deliberate efforts to go 'public' constitute essential part of his responsibility as CIA head (M)
MOSCOW DISSIDENT TAKEN TO LITHUANIA; Special to The New York Times
Date: 30 December 1974
Soviet dissident Andrei D Sakharov repts that Sergei Kovalev, biologist and prominent dissident who was arrested by Soviet police on Dec 27, has been flown by Soviet authorities to Lithuania, apparently for trial in crackdown on underground RC journal; says Kovalev's wife Lucia went to Lefortovo to give her husband warm clothing, but was informed that he had been taken to Vilna; contends, in open appeal made to Western correspondents, that Kovalev's support of journal had been used by authorities as pretext to hold investigation and trial of him far from friends and publicity (M)
Antartic Chronicle; The Midsummer Sun Brings Bustle and Barbecuses to Polar Lite.; I. Trip to Remote Land.
Date: 29 December 1974
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Malcolm BROWNE
Malcom W Browne rept on his visit to Antarctica; notes that of 100 newsmen who asked to visit Antarctica in '74, 7 were chosen and went
UNESCO vs. Israel: Playing PoliticsWith Culture; UNESCO Plays Politics
Date: 29 December 1974
By JOHN P. ROCHE
John ROCHE
Tufts Univ civilization and foreign affairs Prof John P Roche article scores People's Repub of China Dec 10 decision to ban journalists from Israel, S Korea, S Africa and Nationalist China from attending exhibition of Chinese antiquities at Natl Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; holds US Govt officials and all 'other devotees of cultural freedom' should have boycotted reception dinner (S)
News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day The Other News
Date: 30 December 1974
Follow-Up on The News; Santa's Catalogues
Date: 29 December 1974
Mrs Louis Gutterman, sister-in-law of late Lt Col George K Gutterman, who was almost buried in pauper's grave without notification of any relatives despite several identification cards among his possessions, notes that bros and sisters have filed suit against city seeking $1-million in damages; comments on her unsuccessful attempts to obtain response from city officials as to why such incidents occur (S)