The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

As a school district, the District of Columbia has had desegregated schools since 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court decision.

In 1943, he founded the University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of " Knowledgian ," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death.

Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

Dziga Vertov died of cancer in 1954, after surviving, unscathed, Stalin's purges.

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

In 1956, after the 1954 closing of the U. S. immigration station, the then Mayor of Jersey City, Bernard J. Berry, commandeered a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and led a contingent of New Jersey officials on an expedition to claim the island.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

* 1954: French Empire begins to be dismantled after suffering defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.

In October 1955, after the general strike in 1954, young military reformists staged a coup that installed a provisional junta.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954.

The Jeep has been widely imitated around the world, including in France by Delahaye and by Hotchkiss et Cie ( after 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under license from Willys ), and in Japan by Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

* 1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

These relations were maintained after Laotian independence in 1954.

Realizing his precarious condition, Davis tried several times to end his drug addiction, finally succeeding in 1954 after returning to his father's home in St. Louis for several months and literally locking himself in a room until he had gone through a painful withdrawal.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

* 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

Released ( ill health ) 6 November 1954 after having a heart attack.

Highlights of the 1950s included the much-heralded marriage of Abner and Daisy Mae in 1952, the birth of their son " Honest Abe " Yokum in 1953, and in 1954, the introduction of Abner's enormous, long lost kid brother Tiny Yokum, who filled Abner's place as a bachelor in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

This was the approach taken by the N. Bourbaki group in its Theory of Sets, published in 1954, long after Kuratowski discovered his reduction ( below ).

In 1953 – 1954, the Heinleins voyaged around the world ( mostly via ocean liner and cargo liner ), which Heinlein described in Tramp Royale, and which also provided background material for science fiction novels set aboard spaceships on long voyages, such as Podkayne of Mars and Friday.

In-flght refueling, long a dream of airmen, became a reality in 1954 with the introduction of the KC-97 Stratotanker into active service.

* April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.

In 1954, after returning to New York, Johns met Robert Rauschenberg and they became long term lovers.

A fifth volume, supposedly taken from his notes but of doubtful provenance, was published in 1954, long after his death.

On 19 April 1954, Zarraonandía received a tribute in Madrid in recognition of his long career in Spanish football.

* Ana Alexander ( born 1954 ), a Cuban long jumper

That subdivision, named Engelholm Gardens, a long forgotten name also, still stands, looking exactly as it did in 1954.

Sponsored by Warner Lambert's Listerine mouthwash, it was widely syndicated during 1954 – 1955, and was only five minutes ( one or two songs ) long on film, therefore used as a brief interlude or fill-in in programming schedules.

He began the story, called The End of Eternity on December 7, 1953, and finished it on February 6, 1954, by which time it was 25, 000 words long.

In 1954, long before the Beeching Axe, the branchline committee of British Railways proposed closing the line from East Grinstead to Culver Junction near Lewes.

Northwestern maintained and strengthened its long tradition of leadership in public service and academic endeavor and became, in 1954, the first college under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana State Board of Education to offer the Master ’ s degree.

Ammons, whose Collected Poems 1951-1971 won a National Book Award in 1973 and whose long poem Garbage earned him another in 1993 ; Theodore Roethke and his The Waking ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954 ); James Merrill and his epic poem of communication with the dead, The Changing Light at Sandover ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1977 ); Louise Glück for her The Wild Iris ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1993 ); W. S.

Although Rego was commissioned by her father to produce a series of large scale murals to decorate the works ' canteen at his electrical factory in 1954 whilst she was still a student, Rego's artistic career effectively began in the early 1962 when she began showing with The London Group, a long established artists ' organisation which included David Hockney and Frank Auerbach among its members.

The Needles were a site of a long standing artillery battery, from the 1860s to 1954, when they were eventually decommissioned.

Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago ( 1951 ), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind ( 1954 ) for chorus and strings.

In 1954 Chyrsler started its decade long unsuccessful attempt to develop and market a viable car powered by turbine engine when it installed an experimental turbine they had developed specifically for vehicles in a Plymouth.

During his long career he served as Minister for Agriculture ( 1932 – 1947 ), Minister for Health and Social Welfare ( 1947 – 1948 and 1951 – 1954 ) and Minister for Finance ( 1957 – 1965 ).