A pitching revolution would not be unprecedented — several pitches have changed the game of baseball in the past, including the slider in the 1950s and 1960s and the split-fingered fastball in the 1970s to 1990s.

In the late 1960s the D2000, D4000 range was produced ( also known as the TC500 — Terminal Computer 500 ) which had a golf ball printer and a 1K ( 80 bit ) disk memory.

In the late 1960s, Roy Wood — guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Move — had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, taking rock music in the direction " that The Beatles had left off ".

Garden Ghouls Gazette – a 1960s horror title under the editorship of Dave Keil, then Gary Collins — was later headed by the late Frederick S. Clarke and in 1967 became the respected journal Cinefantastique.

Mark Frank ’ s Photon — notable for the inclusion of an 8x10 photo in each issue — was another 1960s zine that lasted into the 1980s.

Due to limitations of this system found during the 1960s and 1970s — victims often simply did not report crimes to the police in the first place — the Department of Justice developed an alternate method of tallying crime, the victimization survey.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

During the 1960s, industrial growth was stimulated by the establishment of the Central American Common Market ( CACM — see Appendix B ).

Despite the arrival of serious competitors — namely, the Ford Falcon, Chrysler Valiant, and Japanese cars — in the 1960s, Holden's locally produced large six-and eight-cylinder cars remained Australia's top-selling vehicles.

The Johnston Atoll area was used during the 1950s and 1960s as an American nuclear weapons test site — for both above-ground and underground nuclear tests.

Jan and Dean continued to tour on their own throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new millennium — with 1960s nostalgia providing them with a ready audience, headlining oldies shows throughout North America, usually during the summer months.

The German student movement of the late 1960s was essentially a left-wing protest against the conservatism that Adenauer — by then out of office — had personified.

The term " legacy " may have little to do with the size or age of the system — mainframes run 64-bit Linux and Java alongside 1960s vintage code.

This was explored in a major debate in the 1960s — the " Cambridge capital controversy "— about the validity of neoclassical economics, with an emphasis on the economic growth, capital, aggregate theory, and the marginal productivity theory of distribution.

" Kazin concludes, " For the young moralists of the 1960s — missionaries of a secular persuasion — only a self-conscious rebellion from below could topple the corrupted liberal order.

Garage punk bands from all over — such as Medway's Thee Mighty Caesars, Chicago's Dwarves, and Adelaide's Exploding White Mice — pursued a version of punk rock that was close to its roots in 1960s garage rock.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( now Ontario Power Generation ), Canadian General Electric ( now GE Canada ), and other companies.

MUMPS ( Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System ), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry.

RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.

In the 1960s and 1970s, new serials such as General Hospital, Days of our Lives, and The Young and the Restless were produced in Los Angeles.

For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy — a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s — was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".

In the 1960s the company diversified, acquiring the Friden calculator company in 1965, Packard Bell Electronics in 1966 and General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1968.

For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy, a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s, was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

The Corfu General Hospital was also constructed ; electricity was introduced to the villages in the 1950s, the radio substation of Hellenic Radio in Corfu was inaugurated in March 1957, and television was introduced in the 1960s, with internet connections in 1995.

CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s ; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC.

The GE-600 series was a family of 36-bit mainframe computers originating in the 1960s, built by General Electric ( GE ).

General semantics has survived most profoundly in the cognitive therapies that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

General Electric made consumer radio sets in the late 1960s using additive boards.

The design effort was carried out at General Atomics in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In the early 1960s, President Liu Shaoqi, Party General Secretary Deng Xiaoping, and Premier Zhou Enlai took over direction of the party and adopted pragmatic economic policies at odds with Mao's communitarian vision, and disbanded communes, attempting to rework the system to pre-Leap standards.

The GE-200 series was a family of small mainframe computers of the 1960s, built by General Electric.

Byrd became a State senator in the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, served a term as a Governor of Virginia, and was a United States Senator for over 30 years, heading the powerful Byrd Organization which dominated state politics between the mid 1920s and 1960s.

Meanwhile the General Post Office ( soon to become British Telecom ) had been researching a similar concept since the late 1960s, known as Viewdata.

Mount Washington enjoyed an influx of new residents starting in the late 1960s with the opening of General Electric's Appliance Park nearby.

Brown Jr. was a television actor in the 1960s ( Gunsmoke, General Hospital, The Baileys of Balboa, Gilligan's Island ), a rock musician and producer who worked with Carlos Santana, and a concert promoter for many country music artists including Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn.

* Market division and price-fixing among manufacturers of heavy electrical equipment in the 1960s, including General Electric.

Rambler also was an early pioneer in offering an automatic shift indicator sequence ( PRN21L, where if one selected " 2 ", the car started in second gear, while " 1 " started in first gear ) which is similar to today's " PRNODSL ", made mandatory in 1968, which requires a neutral position between reverse and drive, while General Motors still offered a shift selector that had reverse immediately next to low gear ( PNDSLR ) well into the 1960s.

After this came the era of A. G. Walkden, who as General Secretary for 30 years led the union to the peak of its influence ; the head office in London, built in the early 1960s, is named after him.