Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

The line of emperors came to an end with Bảo Đại, who was deposed after the war, although he later served as head of state of South Vietnam from 1949 to 1955.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

It was in the possession of the counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Landeck, whose arms, differenced by an escutcheon of the Imperial eagle, served as the arms of Landau until 1955.

Thomas was a missionary who had served in the Congo since 1955, gathering much of the earliest evidence and reports, and claiming to have had two close-encounters himself.

The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.

He served in the U. S. Army from 1955 to 1957, working at the National Security Agency.

Vice Admiral Mustin, a 1955 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served in the 1980s as the Naval Inspector General, Commander, Second Fleet and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans and Policy.

From 1952 to 1955, he served in Berlin as the Economic Reporting Officer in the Eastern Affairs Division, as an adviser on the staff of the United States High Commissioner for Germany.

Ernest Frederick " Fritz " Hollings ( born January 1, 1922 ) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina ( 1959 – 1963 ) and the 77th Lieutenant Governor ( 1955 – 1959 ).

The type served the RAF as a heavy lift transport between 1955 and 1967.

In the Labour Shadow Cabinet he served first as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1955 to 1961, and then as the Shadow Foreign Secretary until being elected party leader in 1963.

Nimoy served as a sergeant in the U. S. Army from 1953 through 1955, alongside fellow actor Ken Berry and architect Frank Gehry.

Wolde later served as a peacekeeper in Korea from 1953 to 1955.

* Roberto Maroni ( born 1955 ), Italian politician, member of Lega Nord who served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Labour and Welfare in various Berlusconi governments.

The Drakens, reconditioned after having served the Swedish Air Force since the early 1960s, were armed, in accordance with the restrictions on missiles in the State Treaty of 1955, only with a cannon.

In 1954, he resigned and served as Minister of Defense, before returning to office in 1955.

However, Ben-Gurion temporarily served as acting prime minister when Sharett visited the United States in 1955.

He was one of the founders of the British Society for the History of Science, and served as President from 1955 to 1957.

He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, served in the U. S. Army 1955 – 1957, stationed in Korea, and then received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960.

Samaranch served on the municipal government of Barcelona, with responsibility for sports, from 1955 to 1962.

He served as prime minister of North Vietnam from 1955 through 1976, and was prime minister of a unified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the rule of Le Duan and Nguyen Van Linh.

Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.

* 1955: Best Director — On the Waterfront

With that difficult experience behind them, Daryl abandoned painting to become Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a position he held between 1942 and 1955.

Dr Noble Frankland, the museum's Director from 1960 to 1982, described the museum's galleries in 1955 as appearing ' dingy and neglected in a dismal state of decay ' the museum's ' numerous stunning exhibits ' notwithstanding.

He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University from 1954 to 1955, Director of the Centre of Research of the Hague Academy of International Law from 1963 to 1964, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at Paris University from 1967 to 1968.

* Jacob " Jack " J. Lew, ( born 1955 ) former Director of the U. S. OMB, and now for U. S. Deputy Secretary of State

( born 1955 ) was recently named the Director of RAND Health.

Charles W. Short was appointed Airport Director in 1929, and remained in this position until 1955.

Adapted into a 1955 film with Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair, it earned Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director ( Delbert Mann ) and Best Actor ( Borgnine ).

From 1955 to 1980, Piaget was Director of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva.

In June 1955 The Free Convertibility of Sterling by George Winder was published, with Fisher signing the foreword as Director of the IEA.

In 1955, she and her husband moved to Syracuse New York, where she was hired as the assistant to the Director of Public Relations at the State University Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.

In 1955 a fictionalised version of the story was told in the film The Cockleshell Heroes made by Warwick Films, and starring Anthony Newley, Trevor Howard, David Lodge and Jose Ferrer who was also the Director.

It later premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1979, where Malick won the award for Best Director — making him the first American director to win the award since Jules Dassin in 1955 for Rififi ( in a joint win shared with two other directors ).

In 1955, the Newcombes moved to the Hamilton area of southern Ontario, where Alan took a job as Director of Research and Development for Porritts & Spencer, a manufacturer of felts for paper making.

By 1955, the two had become the Derby and District College of Art ( opened on 22 September 1966 by Paul Reilly, Director of the Council of Industrial Design ), and the Derby and District College of Technology ( opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 15 May 1964 ), both situated on Kedleston Road, Allestree.

* 1952 – 1955 Director Otto Lummitzsch

* 1955 – 1958 Director Dr. Alexander Löfken

Among the others were General Sir Rob Lockhart, Lt-Gen Sir Dudley Russell, and Maj-Gen H Williams, who, as Engineer-in-Chief, was the last to retire, late in 1955. He was acting Director Military Operations but was eased out as he proposed a 25 mile border corridor in Punjab under british troops to save innocent people .( Ref.

( born 28 October 1955 ), is a British businessman and politician, who has served as Director General of the CBI ( 2000 – 06 ) and Minister of State for Trade and Investment ( 2007 – 08 ).

Upon completing the course in June 1955, he served consecutively as Assistant Director and, later, Director, of the Senior School.

He was Director General of Fighting Vehicles at the Ministry of Supply from 1953 to 1955 and Director, Royal Armoured Corps, at the War Office from 1955 until his retirement in 1958 as Major General.