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.

Alan Freed, who had moved to the much larger market of New York City in 1954, helped the record become popular with white teenagers.

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school, which included composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig, soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's 1954 lecture, " The Aging of the New Music ", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

Atlantic Research Corporation significantly boosted composite propellant I < sub > sp </ sub > in 1954 by increasing the amount of powdered aluminum in the propellant to as much as 20 %.

It replaced the incorrect although much cited alpha process of the B2FH paper, which inadvertently obscurred Hoyle's better 1954 theory.

In 2006, The 1954 – 55 Comets spent much of the year in residence at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

Although, they are now much less well known than Population Bomb, they inspired many works such as the original Population Bomb pamphlet by Hugh Everett Moore in 1954 that inspired the name of Ehrlich's book, as well as some of the original societies concerned with population and environmental matters.

The first edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ) was much reprinted ; thus, a reprint wherein the copyright page indicates 1954, as the most recent reprinting year, also notes that the 1930 and 1937 reprintings were " with corrections ".

Whereas he had been required to undertake much fieldwork and excavation whilst at Edinburgh, at the Institute his position as Director meant that this was not necessary, although he did undertake one excavation at Maes Howe, a Neolithic burial tomb plundered by Early Medieaval Norse raiders, during 1954 – 55.

From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).

In the late 1940s ADC started a project to build a much more advanced interceptor under the 1954 interceptor effort, which eventually delivered the F-106 Delta Dart after a lengthy development process.

The cut was damaged by the floods of 1953, which affected much of the East Coast, and the Transport Commission attempted to close it in 1954.

Upon Toscanini's retirement in the spring of 1954, NBC disbanded the orchestra, much to Toscanini's distress.

This review paper collected and refined earlier research into a heavily cited picture that gave promise of accounting for the observed relative abundances of the elements ; but it did not itself enlarge Hoyle's 1954 work as much as many assumed, except in the understanding of nucleosynthesis of those elements heavier than iron.

His career was turned around in 1954 by the London-based producer Walter Legge, who recorded Klemperer in Beethoven, Brahms and much else with his hand-picked orchestra, the Philharmonia, for the EMI label.

The 405, which entered production in 1954, was much more successful, not least for being Bristol's only four-door.

Their work concentrated on refining the line on the map that Eisenhower had drawn in 1954, one which became known as the PYK Line after three rivers – the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim – whose courses defined much of the line.

It earned $ 11, 300, 000 in rentals during its initial release and much more overseas and in the 1954 re-release.

Hazel, transformed into a bunny, gets Bugs ' attention in Bewitched Bunny ( 1954 ) Despite their common name, Jones ' Witch Hazel is a much different beast from her counterpart in the earlier Disney film.

Her last Broadway play, The Solid Gold Cadillac ( 1954 – 55 ), was later made into a film with the much younger Judy Holliday.

He appears briefly, again in a negative light, in Ronald Welch's Knight Crusader ( 1954 ): the description owes much to his portrayal in Cecil B. de Mille's The Crusades, mentioned below.

In Asia, however, there was much more movement as the Communists took over China in 1949 and attempted to take over all of Korea ( 1950 ) and Vietnam ( 1954 ).

When he in 1953 he started talking of " 21 years of treason " and launched a major attack on the Army for promoting a Communist dentist in the medical corps, his recklessness was too much for Eisenhower, who encouraged Republicans to censure McCarthy formally in 1954.

The Liberty issue of 1954, deep in the Cold War, took a much more political slant than previous issues.

Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a hostess for much of Disney's live-action television programming and in every Disney movie advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland ( which first introduced the theme park to the public while it was still under construction ), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney.

In 1954 Ellis was cast as Mrs. Erlynne in Coward's musical After the Ball, but her singing voice had deteriorated drastically, and much of her music had to be cut.