* Indira Samarasekera ( born 1952 ), President of the University of Alberta, Canada

Indira Vasanti Samarasekera, OC ( born April 11, 1952 ) is the 12th and current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Alberta.

The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The Hershey – Chase experiments were a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that helped to confirm that DNA was the genetic material.

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series.

As a result of this friendship, Byrd's family helped Brown secure an early release on June 14, 1952 after serving three years of his sentence.

Around 1952 he worked on analog computers, and helped create a digital computer for Wayne State University.

Because no isotope of technetium has a half-life longer than 4. 2 million years ( technetium-98 ), its detection in 1952 in red giants, which are billions of years old, helped bolster the theory that stars can produce heavier elements.

Beginning in 1950, Soviet naval officers helped to establish the Hauptverwaltung Seepolizei ( Main Administration Sea Police ), which was renamed Volkspolizei-See ( VP-See ) ( People's Police-Sea ) on 1 July 1952.

With John Pasta, who helped Metropolis to bring MANIAC on line in March 1952, he explored these ideas in a report " Heuristic Studies in Problems of Mathematical Physics on High Speed Computing Machines ", which was submitted on June 9, 1953.

He helped to establish the State Mathematical Institute, which was incorporated into the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952.

Future situationist Guy Debord, who was at that time a significant figure in the Lettrist movement, helped develop these new film techniques, using them in his Lettrist film Howls for Sade ( 1952 ) as well as later in his situationist film Society of the Spectacle ( 1972 ).

Clyde Lovellette, who was drafted in 1952, helped the team win the Western Division.

He became Minister of Education, Culture and Science serving from September 2, 1952 until July 24, 1963 in the Cabinets Drees II, III, Beel II and De Quay, he helped pass the " Mammoetwet ," a law that transformed secondary education.

Hobsbawm helped found the academic journal Past & Present in 1952.

The Restoration Society campaign included the establishment of the Bedford to St. Neots Canoe Race in 1952 which helped publicise the case for navigational restoration.

By May 1952, despite being in a period of great austerity, LANT had raised over £ 4, 000 towards the work, and the involvement of the Royal Engineers, who helped with the reconstruction of Chadbury Lock as a training exercise, increased public awareness, and enabled further public appeals for funds to be made.

He helped create the journal Past and Present in 1952, that focused on Social history.

In the early part of 1952, she and her husband helped sponsor a large rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in support of an Eisenhower presidential candidacy.

The Claerwen Dam opened in 1952 and, later, the Clywedog Dam, helped create reservoirs to supply the towns and cities of the English West Midlands.

In 1952 – 1954, during the Communist regime, the USSR helped build the bridge between Giurgiu and Ruse, The Bridge of Friendship, the only bridge on the Danube linking Romania and Bulgaria.

He helped draft the Universal Copyright Convention at Geneva in 1952.

Hughes wrote Eisenhower's " I shall go to Korea " speech, which helped solidify the 1952 election.

On March 1, 1952, while working as a machinist at the Armstrong Cork Company, Usery helped co-found Local Lodge 8 ( now Local Lodge 918 ) of the International Association of Machinists ( IAM ), AFL-CIO.

Johnson's military record helped the Paris periodical Realités hire him, where he was assistant editor ( 1952 – 55 ).

He later helped found the pro-Mossadegh Toilers Party, one of the component parties of the National Front, and then in 1952 a new party called the Third Force.

In 1952 it created the Helmand Valley Authority to manage the economic development of the Helmand and Arghandab valleys through irrigation and land development, a scheme which remains one of the country's most important capital resources.

In 1952, Hornsby was again hired to manage the St. Louis Browns, his first major league job in 16 years.

Returning to Norfolk in 1952, he took a job managing the Cafe Society tavern, then partnered with its owner, Milton Bass, to co-purchase and manage The Top Hat Nightclub in Virginia Beach.

Appling was a successful minor league manager after his playing days were over, winning pennants with Memphis in the Southern Association and Indianapolis of the American Association and being named minor league manager of the year in 1952 ; but his only chance to manage at the major league level was as a late-season replacement for Alvin Dark as manager of the Kansas City Athletics in 1967, leaving his major league managerial record at 10-30.

The Liberals did not manage to improve on their performance in the previous 1952 election.

It took Stanky 8 years to reach the major leagues at age 27, after starting out at Greenville, Mississippi, in the East Dixie League, where he was a teammate of future St. Louis Cardinals star Harry Brecheen, whom Stanky would manage in St. Louis in 1952.

On 3 July 1952 the city administration voted for a project of a metro system and on 6 October 1955 a new company, Metropolitana Milanese, was created to manage the construction of the new infrastructure.

This MICR-based concept was originally developed by SRI International in 1952 for their similar ERMA project, but they did not manage to actually deliver their machine until 1959.

After graduating with a 2: 1 honours degree, Halliwell worked briefly for Picturegoer magazine in London before returning to Cambridge to manage the Rex Cinema from 1952 to 1956.

He retired from professional football in 1952 and went on to manage Northwich Victoria.

In January 1952 a sub department of the fuel ministry was formed to manage petroleum exploration and mining, it was called the Chief Petroleum Administration Bureau.

" I Like Ike " button from the 1952 campaign

Henry Cabot Lodge who served as his campaign manager and others succeeded in convincing him, and in June 1952 he resigned his command at NATO to campaign full-time.

He was the first to draw Tony the Tiger for the Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes advertising campaign in 1952.

He also spread unsubstantiated rumors that Adlai Stevenson was gay to damage the liberal governor's 1952 presidential campaign.

* 1952 – Korean War: U. S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

The 1952 campaign was the climactic moment in the fierce rivalry between Dewey and Taft for control of the Republican Party.

A poster from the 1952 campaign

During the 1952 campaign Stewart Alsop, a powerful Connecticut Republican, labeled Stevenson an " egghead ", based on his baldness and intellectual air.

For example, Richard Nixon's " Checkers speech " of 1952 was a successful effort to dispel a scandal concerning a rumored slush fund of campaign contributions.

In the 1952 Presidential Election, General Eisenhower often had secretaries forge his name to campaign letters and " personally inscribed " autographed photographs.

In 1952, Helms worked on the presidential campaign of Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell.

Despite spending some three months of the season out with a muscle injury, the 1952 – 53 campaign proved Smith's words to be accurate, as a 38 year old Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in a match which was, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, subsequently dubbed the ' Matthews Final '.

Weinberger entered the race for California assemblyman in the San Francisco Bay area in 1952 at the persuasion of his wife, Jane Weinberger, who also served as his campaign manager.

He was also a major contributor to Eisenhower's general election campaign in 1952.

In 1952, while still working for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands.

In February 2009, following a $ 10 million donation by Subway Sandwiches co-founder and alumnus Peter Buck, class of 1952, the college completed a $ 250-million capital campaign.

Her efforts proved a major factor in convincing Eisenhower to run for President of the United States in 1952 and she would play a major role in his successful campaign.

The Hamm's Beer bear was created by Patrick DesJarlait, an Ojibwa, in 1952 for an advertising campaign produced by the Campbell-Mithun advertising agency.

Though Jackson opposed the excesses of Joe McCarthy ( who had traveled to Washington State to campaign against him in 1952 ), he also criticized Dwight Eisenhower for not spending enough on national defense, and called for more inter-continental ballistic missiles in the national arsenal.

After Truman's withdrawal from the 1952 presidential campaign, Minton made remarks indicating he had advised Truman to stay out of the contested New Hampshire primary election to begin with.

Corruption in Truman's administration, which was linked to cabinet level appointees and senior White House staff, was a central issue in the 1952 presidential campaign.