The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

* 1957 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.

In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".

* 1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S.

Ajax achieved their first Eredivisie championship in 1957 and again in 1960.

They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

United won the League championship but were denied the 20th century's first " double " when they controversially lost the 1957 FA Cup final to Aston Villa.

BCS theory, proposed by John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer ( BCS ) in 1957, is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since its discovery in 1911.

The theory was first published in April 1957 in the letter, " Microscopic theory of superconductivity ".

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.

For the 1957 show season, the Blue Angels transitioned to the supersonic Grumman F11F-1 Tiger, first flying the short-nosed, and then the long-nosed versions.

# Grumman F11F-1 Tiger – mid-season 1957 – 1969 ( first supersonic jet )

His first European film, A King in New York ( 1957 ), was also a political satire that openly parodied the HUAC.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.

The kinescopes of these programs are the only record of their 1957 television appearances.

Simon was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, creating with Allen Newell the Logic Theory Machine ( 1956 ) and the General Problem Solver ( GPS ) ( 1957 ) programs.

Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the " Golden Age of Television.

Kristen Nygaard started writing computer simulation programs in 1957.

In late April 1957, parallel renovation and construction programs started.

In 1957, the Student Conservation Program ( forerunner to SCA ) had two separate programs in Grand Teton National Park and Olympic National Park.

Producers reportedly promised Reeves that the new programs would be as serious and action-packed as the first season, guaranteed him creative input, and slated him to direct several of the new shows as he had done with the final three episodes of the 1957 season.

He contributed to the Information Processing Language ( 1956 ) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine ( 1956 ) and the General Problem Solver ( 1957 ) ( with Herbert A. Simon ).

He hosted a color television special on NBC in 1957, one of the earliest color programs to be preserved on a color kinescope ; an excerpt of the telecast was included in NBC's 50th anniversary special in 1976.

Also in 1957, Ph. D. programs were consolidated in a new Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The Great Gildersleeve ( 1941 – 1957 ), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs.

In 1957 the name was shortened to Colorado State College to recognize the further growth of programs and offerings.

WEWS also aired two NBC programs, both of which had been preempted by Westinghouse-owned NBC affiliate KYW-TV ( now WKYC-TV ): The Huntley-Brinkley Report, the network's evening newscasts, during the 1959-1960 season ; and The Tonight Show, with hosts Jack Paar and later Johnny Carson, from October 1957 until February 1966.

The Tonopah Test Range was withdrawn from public use in 1956 and testing began in 1957 for United States Department of Energy weapons programs.

MUSIC-N refers to a family of computer music programs and programming languages descended from or influenced by MUSIC, a program written by Max Mathews in 1957 at Bell Labs.

Other large and important programs followed Ford's — most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U. S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.

, born April 23, 1957 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, is a Japanese music composer, for motion pictures, anime movies, video games and televised programs.

Upon the recommendation of the Tripartite Committee, the National Joint Committee on Extramural Sports for College Women ( NJCESCW ) was formed in 1957 to guide and administer women's intercollegiate athletic programs.

Wallace also hosted two late-night interview programs, Night Beat ( broadcast in New York during 1955 – 7, only on DuMont's WABD ) and The Mike Wallace Interview on ABC in 1957 – 8.

The programs led Life magazine to do a story on the Festival in 1957, bringing even more people to the plays.

Some examples of political action programs were the prevention of the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) from winning elections between 1948 and the late 1960s ; overthrowing the governments of Iran in 1953, and Guatemala in 1954 ; arming rebels in Indonesia in 1957 ; and providing funds and support to the trade union federation Solidarity following the imposition of martial law in Poland after 1981.

In 1957, Pantoja founded the Puerto Rican Forum ( originally the Hispanic American Youth Association or HAYA ), which served as an incubator for organizations and programs promoting economic self-sufficiency.

In 1957, the majority Liberal government under Louis St. Laurent passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act to fund 50 % of the cost of such programs for any provincial government that adopted them.