Week of August 9-15, 1974

Barbara Walters, 43, and Jim Hartz, 34, told PEOPLE they worked well together anchoring NBC's Today show. "We're fairly easygoing people," said Walters, now host of ABC's 20/20. Hartz hosts a science program on PBS.

BORN THIS WEEK
AUG. 15, 1974
Natasha Henstridge

THE HOTTEST!
Roberta Flack hit the top of the charts with her soulful tune "Feel Like Makin' Love." Last April, Flack, 60, sang jazz improvisations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Chief Change
Facing a Senate trial for his role in Watergate, Richard Nixon, 61, resigned Aug. 9 and headed home to California. "May our former President, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself," said Gerald Ford, 61, sworn in the same day as the nation's 38th President.

Now Playing: Liza in Love
Liza Minnelli, 28, and producer Jack Haley Jr., 40, got engaged Aug. 9 and married a month later. They divorced in 1978 but are now working together on a new Broadway musical.

Minor Tune-up
After comedian George Burns, 78, underwent open-heart surgery in Beverly Hills Aug. 9, he lived to be 100. The Oh God! star died in 1996.

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