Issigonis ' friend John Cooper, owner of the Cooper Car Company and designer and builder of Formula One and rally cars, saw the potential of the Mini for competition.

Issigonis was initially reluctant to see the Mini in the role of a performance car, but after John Cooper appealed to BMC management, the two men collaborated to create the Mini Cooper, a nimble, economical and inexpensive car.

In 1962, Rhodesian John Love became the first non British racing driver to win the British Saloon Car Championship driving a Mini Cooper.

The official Mozambican singles chart was established in 1971 the first number one was " Sada Voo " by Dededede, the first number one album was Sann Sann Sann by Mini Nini Onini, the first number one single by a non-Mozambican artist was " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing ( In Perfect Harmony )" by The New Seekers and the first non-Mozambican number one album was Imagine by John Lennon.

* the MV Alice Austen and the MV John A. Noble known as the “ Austen class ”, ( commonly referred to as " the Little Boats " or " Mini Barberis ") built 1986.

He was subsequently launched as a solo comedian and had several successful comedy flicks to his name, among them " Dino, Abangan ang Susunod Na ..." ( his launching movie ), " Pempe ni Sara at Pen " ( with Kris Aquino and Vandolph ) and " Milyonaryong Mini " ( with John Estrada and Sheryl Cruz ).

Examples of post-2000 hot hatches include the Alfa Romeo 147 GTA and Mito GTA, Citroën DS3 Racing, Abarth Grande Punto, Ford Focus ST and RS, MG ZR and ZS, Mini Cooper and John Cooper Works, Opel / Vauxhall Astra SRi Turbo, OPC and VXR, Peugeot 207 GTi, Renault Clio RS 2. 0 / V6, Renault Mégane Renault Sport, SEAT León Cupra and FR, Volkswagen Golf GTI and R models.

The Cooper team's decline was accelerated when John Cooper was seriously injured in a road accident in 1963 driving a twin-engined Mini and Charles Cooper died in 1964.

As the company's fortunes in Formula One declined, however, the John Cooper-conceived Mini Cooper – introduced in 1961 as a development of the Alec Issigonis-designed British Motor Corporation Mini with a more powerful engine, new brakes and a distinctive livery – continued to dominate in saloon car and rally races throughout the 1960s, winning many championships and the 1964, 1965 and 1967 Monte Carlo Rallies.

Before John Cooper's death, the Cooper name was licensed to BMW for the higher performance versions of the cars, inspired by the original Mini, sold as the MINI.

Barris has built many novelty vehicles for other celebrities ; these include golf carts for Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Ann-Margret, Glen Campbell, and Elton John ; and 25 modified Mini Mokes for a record company contest involving the Beach Boys.

Next morning Yoko and John transferred all their luggage over and his driver took the Mini back to Tittenhurst, and the four set off north again to Scotland.

By 1961, he was also managing the Mini Coopers, as well as deputizing for an injured John Cooper in Formula One.

* Mini Countryman John Cooper Works

* Mini Countryman John Cooper Works

Andretti's racing career started in 1994 at the age of 15 with the help of his brother John, who helped Adam obtain a ride in the new half-scale Mini Cup Stock Car series, driving for Terry Lingner of Lingner Group Productions at the Velodrome in Indianapolis.

Examples of one-make racing from around the world include Radical European Masters, John Cooper Mini Challenge and Commodore Cup.

Detective Constable John Jardine then ran up to the back of the Mini, and fired five shots at Waldorf through the rear window.

Three World Heritage Sites are located in the canton: the Benedictine Convent of Saint John, the Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona and the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula and Bernina Landscapes.

Brooks has directed Shange's Boogie Woogie Landscapes at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and in London's West End.

Although authority over the region was nominally shared by the United States and Britain through the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, company policy, enforced via Chief Factor John McLoughlin of the company's Columbia District, was to discourage U. S. settlement of the territory.

In 1614 John Woodall, Surgeon General of the East India Company, published " The Surgion's Mate " as a handbook for apprentice surgeons aboard the company's ships.

Her father, John Bullock, is the company's CEO, and her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is the former president.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. ( February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 ) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines ( IBM ), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.

The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, when an employee of Southland Ice Company, John Jefferson Green, started selling milk, eggs and bread from an improvised storefront in one of the company's ice houses.

In addition, two complementary awards are given: The Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, recognizing the voluntary services to the performing arts by an individual or group, and the National Arts Centre Award, which recognizes an individual artist's or company's work during the past performance year.

This was the year that ImClone CEO Waksal first forged the signature of the company's general counsel John Landes ( one of the three original employees of the company ) for financial gain.

In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Lexington, Kentucky-based Yorkshire Global Restaurants, owner of the Long John Silver's and A & W All-American Food chains and its intention to change the company's name to Yum!

A member of the S. C. Johnson company's owners, Henrietta Johnson Lewis, married to the advertising executive who handled the Johnson's Wax account, recommended that her husband, John, give the show a chance as a national program for the company.

For the company's 1960s superhero efforts composer John Gart ( under the stage name John Marion ) and music supervisor Gordon Zahler created strong themes and backing cues using a large orchestra until 1968's Batman entry, which used sparser production and jazzier themes.

Many of the trolley company's owners were among the founders of the Cedar Cliff Land Company, which bought up large portions of the area, and the street names in the borough reflect these industrialists and businessmen: Morrissee, Hoxey, Van Dyke, John Ryle and Barbour.

John Reith, the general manager of the BBC, invited the opera company's musical director, Percy Pitt, to become the BBC's part-time musical adviser from May 1923.

In March 1998, the company acquired John Menzies ' retail outlets for £ 68m, which for many years were the main rival to the company's small railway-station outlets.

In 1984 John Smith's Cask ( 3. 8 per cent ABV ) was introduced, the company's first cask conditioned product for 14 years.

On August 22, 1997, stockholders filed a class-action lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco, " accusing Macromedia and five executives — including chairman, CEO, and former president, John Colligan — of misleading stockholders on the company's product success and financial health and of engaging in insider trading during the class period of April 18, 1996 to January 9, 1997 ".

The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's flagship CAD software product AutoCAD, and 12 others.

MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on 3 October 1963 with John D. Goeken being named the company's first president.

Thanks to the control that had been exercised by John Ellis, there was no impropriety in the company's accounts, and it was due to his business acumen that the Midland survived and prospered.

describing intimidation of Dr John Buse ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) by GlaxoSmithKline over his concerns about the cardiovascular risks associated with the company's anti-diabetes drug rosiglitazone ( Avandia ).

One critique compared EA to companies like Ubisoft and concluded that EA's innovation in new and old IPs " Crawls along at a snail's pace ," while even the company's own CEO, John Riccitiello, acknowledged the lack of innovation seen in the industry generally, saying, " We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play.

The company's type library features fonts by Mark Andresen, Bob Aufuldish, Jonathan Barnbrook, Rodrigo Cavazos, Barry Deck, Eric Donelan, John Downer, Elliott Peter Earls, Edward Fella, Sibylle Hagmann, Frank Heine, John Hersey, Jeffery Keedy, Zuzana Licko, P. Scott Makela, Conor Mangat, Nancy Mazzei, Brian Kelly, Miles Newlyn, Claudio Piccinini, Just van Rossum, Christian Schwartz and Rudy VanderLans.

Also that year, Klasky Csupo also established Class-Key Chew-Po with Chris Prynoski & John Andrews to continue the successful commercial animation business that had grown from the company's initial work in main titles and graphics.