She will receive the 1961 `` Oscar '' at the 24th annual Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.

On 5 August 1961, during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, Phil Hill became the first person to complete a lap of the Nordschleife in under 9 minutes, with a lap of 8 minutes 55. 2 seconds ( 153. 4 km / h or 95. 3 mph ) in the Ferrari 156 " Sharknose " Formula One car.

* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

* 1961 Grand Prix National des Arts

In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Légion d ' honneur.

In 1961 the Grand Hotel Toplice in Bled was the site of one of most important international tournaments in chess history.

The AN / FPS-16 radar system was introduced at the Cape, Grand Bahama, San Salvador, Ascension and East Grand Bahama Island between 1958 and 1961.

The last graduating senior class was in 1961, when Grand Mound -- along with the Welton and DeWitt school districts -- consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

The junior-senior high school was closed in 1961, when Welton, along with the former Grand Mound and DeWitt school districts, consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

* 1961 — Grand Master Edgar Award

Hupp grille badge, on 1941 SkylarkRobert Craig Hupp ( June 2, 1877 in Grand Rapids, Michigan – 1931 ), a former employee of Oldsmobile and Ford, founded the company with his brother Louis Gorham Hupp ( November 13, 1872 in Michigan – December 10, 1961 in Michigan ) in 1908.

Giancarlo Baghetti joined in midseason and became the first driver to win on his debut race ( the 1961 French Grand Prix ).

However, at the end of the season, von Trips crashed at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix and was killed, together with over a dozen spectators.

After 1961, Grand Prix racing did not race on banked circuits anymore.

In the 1961 Italian Grand Prix on 10 September at Monza, Wolfgang von Trips in his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus.

He won the 1960 and 1961 Turkey Night Grand Prix, the first two years that it was held at Ascot Park.

Moss was stuck with an underpowered Climax-engined Lotus, but managed to win the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix by 3. 6 seconds ( beating the 156s of Richie Ginther, Wolfgang von Trips, and Phil Hill ), and later also the partially wet 1961 German Grand Prix.

Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961.

In October 1961, his political defeat was complete at the 22nd party congress when he was excluded from election to the Central Committee.

As a means to check the opposition, the military authority created the Korean Central Intelligence Agency ( KCIA ) in June 1961, with Kim Jong-pil, a relative of Park, as its first director.

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

In 1961, Honecker, as the Central Committee secretary for security matters, was in charge of the building of the Berlin Wall.

In 1961, he was elected full member of the CPSU Central Committee and was promoted to the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee in 1962.

A highly classified program of covert actions against North Vietnam known as Operation Plan 34-Alpha, in conjunction with the DESOTO operations, had begun under the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961.

The school became Central Washington College of Education in 1937, Central Washington State College in 1961, and, finally, Central Washington University in 1977.

South Africa left the multiracial Commonwealth in 1961 and Macmillan acquiesced to the dissolution of the Central African Federation by the end of 1963.

However, in a late decision in 1961 the line was cut back to Walthamstow ( Hoe Street ) station, renamed Walthamstow Central in 1968.

Established in 1961 in Montreal, the Association of Francophone Universities ( Official Website ) gathers institutions of higher education and research among the Francophone countries of Africa, the Arab world, Southeast Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.

In February 1961, the Central Committee declared that collectivization had been completed.

( Graduates of Hooper School who went on to what was then called " secondary " education attended Union-Endicott High School until the opening of Maine-Endwell Central High School in 1961 ).

This growth, along with similar growth in the Town of Maine to the immediate north, led to the creation of a new Maine-Endwell Central School District and the opening of Maine-Endwell Central High School in 1961.

In East Germany, the Hauptverwaltung der Zivilen Luftfahrt ( Central Administration for Civil Aviation ) was established on 1 Jan 1961.

In 1961, Brian's largest surviving work, the Gothic Symphony, which had been written between 1919 and 1927, was first performed at Westminster Central Hall, in a partly amateur performance conducted by Bryan Fairfax, and in 1966 the first fully professional performance was given at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Boult, both occasions largely the result of Simpson's lobbying.

By 1961 the LaRouches were living in Central Park West, Manhattan, and LaRouche's activities were mostly focused on his career and not on the SWP.

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

In 1961, the NERVA program ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications ) was created.

It was powered by Oldsmobile's most powerful Rocket V8 engine, a 394 CID engine from 1961 to 1964 rated from 330 to, and a larger 425 CID Super Rocket V8 from 1965 to 1966, rated at.

With the Rocket now standard equipment on the Oldsmobile 88 a higher compression version was made standard equipment on the 98 and Super 88 with horsepower rising to 325 in 1961 and 330 in 1962.

Crossfield received the Lawrence Sperry Award ( 1954 ), Octave Chanute Award ( 1954 ), Iven C. Kincheloe Award ( 1960 ), American Rocket Society ( ARS ) Astronautics Award ( 1960 ), Harmon International Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President John F. Kennedy ), Collier Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President Kennedy in 1962 ), NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal ( 1993 ), and was named Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) ( 1999 ).

The 1961 through 1963 Sky Rocket ( and 1964 Rocket ) was a engine.

* Rocket Attack, U. S. A. ( 1961 )