But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

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.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

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.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

The Roman epic The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

by H. Bengtson, Stuttgart 1954 that the reign of Antoninus comprised " a succession of grossly wasted opportunities ," given the upheavals that were to come.

Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:

Things changed in 1953 with the Soviet testing of their first hydrogen bomb, but it was not until 1954 that the Atlas missile program was given the highest national priority.

The original breakthrough to this problem was given by Andrey Kolmogorov in 1954.

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.

Valéry served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

Charles Jones was given freedom, and remained in seclusion until November 16, 1954.

Ravel also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

* 1954: No award given

In the United States, and some other allied nations, 11 November was formerly known as Armistice Day ; in the United States it was given its new name in 1954 at the end of the Korean War to honor all veterans.

These awards, however, were handed out on a discretionary rather than a regular basis ( no award was given at the 26th Academy Awards held in 1954 ), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year.

On the other hand, producers Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti are considered to have personally won the 1956 Foreign Language Film Award given to Fellini's La Strada ( 1954 ), since their names were explicitly included in the nomination.

In a speech given in Senatobia, Mississippi on August 12, 1955, he said: " On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court's decision.

Transfer of civil administration of North Vietnam to the Việt Minh was given on October 11, 1954.

Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

* Tula ( born 1954 ), English model with the given name Caroline Cossey

A partial resolution of the small-divisor problem was given by the statement of the KAM theorem in 1954.

In 1954 Redgrave and Lopham Fen was given the status as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) due to the nationally important presence of the fen raft spider and the diversity of its fenland.

Although von Braun had proposed in 1954 that the OML could place a satellite in Earth orbit, the Naval Research Laboratory, using its Vanguard rocket, was given this assignment.

However, the area — which had a few homesteaders by then — acquired a post office in 1954 which was given the designation of Sterling after the Sterling Highway that served the area.

The Scranton Transit Company, whose trolleys had given the city its nickname, transferred all operations to buses as the 1954 holiday season approached.

In the ' 50s, they were finally given their own series, but only three cartoons were made ; Chicken in the Rough ( 1951 ), Two Chips and a Miss ( 1952 ) and The Lone Chipmunks ( 1954 ).

In 1954, special linguistic rights were given to Francophones ( according to the 1947 census, they constituted nearly 40 % of the population ).

In 1954, however, special linguistic facilities were given to local French-speakers.