The process of de-Stalinization in Czechoslovakia had begun under Antonín Novotný in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but had progressed slower than in most other states of the Eastern Bloc.

Throughout the 1950s work on a paved road from Phoenix to Payson progressed and the paving was completed in 1959.

Norma Ann Sykes ( born 19 May 1936 ), better known as Sabrina, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor movie career.

During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess ( 1959 ).

In the 1950s, Chapman progressed through the motor racing formulae, designing and building a series of racing cars, sometimes to the point of maintaining limited production as they were so successful and highly sought after, until he arrived in Formula One.

As the 1960s progressed, increasing numbers of young people began to revolt against the social norms and conservatism from the 1950s and early 1960s as well as the escalation of the Vietnam War and Cold War.

As the 1950s progressed, Baxter carved out a niche in this area, producing a number of titles in this style including " Tamboo!

And as time progressed through the 1950s and 1960s, Spa was often known as the fastest circuit in Europe ( with the possible exception of Monza ).

As the 1950s progressed, motorcycle sales plummeted.

His work progressed from compositions of geometrical shapes in the 1940s to works in different shades of the same color ( all red, all blue, all white ) in the 1950s.

An attempt was made to restart mining in the late 1950s by a Canadian mining company, but was not progressed.

Weekend steam-hauled ' brake van ' train rides progressed to proper passenger servics along the ever-lengthening line in restored 1950s British Railways Mark 1 carriages.

Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s.

As the 1950s progressed, however, this group was instrumental in China's adoption of a legal system based on the system of the Soviet Union.

Surfing at The Reef has progressed from just a few surfers in the 1950s to become one of the most popular surfing spots in San Diego County.

The 1950s brought little success for Sutton, though the team is said to have progressed off the field.

In Britain, the productions of Harrison Marks were " soft core ", but considered risqué in the 1950s.

Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

He sang on a few records and then began to write songs, several of which were popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Thus were born the seaside Pierrots ( in conical hats and sometimes black or colored costume ) who, as late as the 1950s, sang, danced, juggled, and joked on the piers of Brighton and Margate and Blackpool.

During the early days of television in the 1950s Minnelli appeared as a child guest on Art Linkletter's show and in 1959 sang and danced with Gene Kelly on his first television special.

* Keith Allison who sang with Paul Revere and the Raiders lived in Coleman in the 1950s.

Dave later sang with his older brother JT Prater in the gospel group The Sensational Hummingbirds, which recorded the record " Lord Teach Me " in the 1950s.

Also, Gigli sang an unusual amount of sacred music ( especially in the 1950s ), atypical of a leading operatic tenor.

< p > The strip's waning circulation got a shot in the arm in the 1950s when President Eisenhower sang its praises, and then again in the 1970s when a nostalgia craze swept the nation.

During the mid 1950s, Hovis sang in nightclubs.

He graduated from the Rossini Conservatory at Pesaro, where he first met and sang with Renata Tebaldi, with whom he would form something of an operatic dream team of the 1950s.

He sang on the soundtrack for Ken Clark as " Stewpot " in South Pacific, one of the top-selling albums of the 1950s.

Haywood S. Warner was born in 1930 in Falls Church, Virginia, and in the early 1950s, Warner sang as a backing vocalist for Van Walls on the Atlantic Records releases " After Midnight " and " Open the Door ".

Post-war, Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and Mario del Monaco were the most famous interpreters of the title role during the 1950s and 1960s, while Plácido Domingo became its foremost interpreter among the next generation of tenors, although Domingo's contemporary Luciano Pavarotti also successfully sang and recorded the work.

Meanwhile, Andy sang backup on many of Kay's recordings through the 1950s, including her Top 40 hit Eloise based on her bestselling book about the mischievous little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

In the 1950s, high school aged students sang songs composed by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer to promote social consciousness in young people, such as " Close Your Eyes and Point Your Finger " and " It Could Be a Wonderful World " and learned the dance steps and music then popular on Israeli kibutzim such as the water dance (" Mayim, Mayim ").

In 2004, aged 80, she made an appearance on the PBS 1950s pop music special Magic Moments and sang " The Wayward Wind.

Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife / group musical team in which Les Paul played the guitar and Mary Ford sang.

His earliest recordings were as a soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale ( Capitol ) in the 1950s with the Chorale in the background particularly in the LP Joy to the World where he sang in " O Holy Night " and the LPs Folk Songs of the New World P8324 ( 1955 ) and Folk Songs of the Frontier P8332 ( 1956 ), where he sang, among other songs, " Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie " and " Streets of Laredo ".

In the mid 1950s, he sang briefly with Tim Rose in a high school group called The Singing Strings, and later with Phillips, Mike Boran and Bill Cleary formed a doo wop band, The Abstracts.

In 1951 he sang at Bayreuth as Amfortas in Parsifal, and reappeared frequently in the 1950s and early 1960s as Amfortas and in the title role of The Flying Dutchman He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1951 as Amonasro in Aida, and sang over 270 performances, both baritone and bass-baritone roles, in such operas as Le nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute, Arabella, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Boris Godunov, Carmen, Otello, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, The Tales of Hoffman, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Faust.

Franco Ventriglia is an opera singer who sang bass in every major European opera house for over twenty years during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

After a dip in recording in the 1950s, including a stint with the startup Bell Records, Forrest sang with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, led by Sam Donahue in the early 1960s.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

During the 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, where he played " Buttons " in a production of Cinderella in Sydney.

Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s.

This was a concept which played a central role in the development of Taguchi methods by Genichi Taguchi, which took place during his visit to Indian Statistical Institute in early 1950s.

The communist parties played an influential role in staging the massive protests for the Bengali Language Movement which led the destruction of Pakistan Muslim League | PML in East Pakistan, 1950s.

The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s.

From the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, he and Blair organized weekly parties at their Beverly Hills home, and they often played an intensely competitive and physical version of charades, known as " The Game ".

" Rockabilly " usually ( but not exclusively ) refers to the type of rock and roll music which was played and recorded in the mid 1950s by white singers such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots of the music.

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

In the 1950s and 1960s, John Langridge and George Rédei played an important role in establishing arabidopsis as a useful organism for biological laboratory experiments.

In the late 1950s, a serious attempt was made to establish a third major league, the Continental League, but that league never played.

Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy ; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s.

* This book was read aloud by the Captain ( played by Bob Keeshan ) on an early episode of Captain Kangaroo in the 1950s, as well as at least once in the 1960s or early 1970s.

As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.

In some communities where square dancing has survived, the prevailing form of music has become popular songs from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, played on instruments such as saxophones, drums, and electric guitars.

The company played a major role in the early development of oil production in Kuwait, and through the 1950s and ' 60s apparently enjoyed a " special relationship " with the Kuwaiti government.

The Bolivian Trotskyist party ( Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR ) became a mass party in the period of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and together with other groups played a central role during and immediately after the period termed the Bolivian National Revolution.

He played the ex-convict and biker half-brother of 1950s rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens in the 1987 movie La Bamba.

Prior to 1985, almost all finals were played in the 2-2-1-1-1 format ( although the 1971 finals between Milwaukee and Baltimore were on an alternate-home basis, some 1950s finals used the 2-3-2 format, and the 1975 Golden State-Washington and 1978 and 1979 Seattle-Washington finals were on a 1-2-2-1-1 basis ).

By the late 1950s, Krypton played an increasing role in various Superman stories, with greater detail provided about Krypton's makeup.

Widely considered to have been one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, Campanella played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s and 1950s, as one of the pioneers in breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

During the late 1950s, Webb started writing songs, influenced by the church music he played and also by some of the new music he heard, including Elvis Presley.

* Orson Welles played Professor Moriarty opposite John Gielgud's Holmes in the 1950s series broadcast of " The Final Problem.

Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003 ), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s.