Clifford D. Simak's `` How-2 '' ( 1954 ) tells of a future when robots have taken over, leaving men nothing to do ; ;

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.

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.

His best years were 1954 when he hit with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home runs, drove in 127 and stole 24 bases.

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

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.

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.

The seeds of long-term success were planted on September 14, 1954, when the Orioles hired Paul Richards to become the ballclub's manager and general manager.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

The Blues remained in Corpus Christi until the winter of 1954, when they relocated to their present home at NAS Pensacola.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

Chaplin continued being a subject to political controversy throughout the 1950s, especially as he was awarded the International Peace Prize by the Communist World Peace Council and lunched with Chou En-Lai in 1954, and when he briefly met Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.

In 1954, an important concept was discovered: chordic production is easier to master when the production is done at the release of the keys instead of when they are pressed.

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

This held until 1954 when it was challenged by the government Monopolies Commission.

There were localized flare-ups when the Red Army began shelling the islands of Quemoy and Matsu in September 1954.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

* Relations between the two countries date to 1954 when Ethiopia established an Honorary Consulate General in that country.

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

In 1954, when the United States dispatched the Military Assistance Advisory Group for West Pakistan, the East Pakistan Parliament signed a statement, which denounced Pakistan's government for signing a military pact with the United States.

This mildly mirrored what Haruo Nakajima went through when he played Godzilla in the original 1954 film.

In July 1953, Hoxha handed over the foreign affairs and defense portfolios to loyal followers, but he kept both the top party post and the premiership until 1954, when Shehu became Albania's prime minister.

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

Founded in 1873, the Club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) between 1898 and 1924, and one premiership in 1954 since joining the then-Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor to the AFL, in 1925.

After nine years in his senior position at Triplex, he moved in 1954 to be Managing Director of the British Industries Fair, a government-backed organisation promoting British goods worldwide.

In England, in 1954, Richler married Catherine Boudreau, a French-Canadian divorcee nine years his senior.

* Thomas Howard, Sr. ( born 1954 ), former American football linebacker who played nine seasons

It was built with nine openings in 1637, but was subsequently rebuilt with seven openings in 1824, and again with three openings in 1954.

Between 1937 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles.

Since its inception in 1954, the Australian team has dominated the Rugby League World Cup, having won the competition nine times.

In 1954, Landrieu married Verna Satterlee, with whom he had nine children ( Mary, Mark, Melanie, Michelle, Mitchell, Madeleine, Martin, Melinda, and Maurice Jr .).

The Royal Lao government military also received its first aircraft from the French in 1954 ; nine Morane-Saulnier MS-500 Criquets were supplied for support and medevac.

On November 8, 1954, Powell married Patrick W. Nerney, an automobile executive nine years her senior, in Ojai, California.

The fifth edition ( Grove V ), in nine volumes, was edited by Eric Blom and published in 1954.

In August and October 1954 eight and nine fighter interceptor squadrons respectively began " standing alert " using volunteer aircrews on a rotating basis for 14 hours a day.

During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes ( 1942, 1954, 1979 ), the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1994 ), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, and the Gold Key Award ( the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame ) in 1979.

He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards in India, and a two-time nominee for the Palme d ' Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his films Awaara ( 1951 ) and Boot Polish ( 1954 ).

At the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954, Ben Bella was based in Cairo where he had become one of the nine members of the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action which headed the Front de Liberation Nationale ( FLN ).

Chandler served as a regent of the University of California from 1954 to 1968, during its period of most rapid growth, when the system grew from five to nine campuses.

Instead, he based his information on the country purely upon a single pamphlet, Moscou sans voiles ( Moscow Unveiled ), which had been written by Joseph Douillet ( 1878 – 1954 ), a former Belgian consul to Rostov-on-Don who had spent nine years in Russia following the 1917 revolution.

As the Netherlands Antilles, they were initially specifically excluded from all association with the EEC by reason of a protocol attached to the Treaty of Rome, allowing the Netherlands to ratify on behalf of the Netherlands and Netherlands New Guinea only, which it subsequently did .< ref name =" protocol-eec "> TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EEC-PROTOCOL ON THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO THE NON-EUROPEAN PARTS OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS < p >< p >, at the time of signature of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, to define the scope of the provisions of Article 227 of this Treaty in respect of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ,< p > upon the following provisions, which shall be annexed to this Treaty :< p > The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, by reason of the constitutional structure of the Kingdom resulting from the Statute of 29 December 1954, shall, by way of derogation from Article 227, be entitled to ratify the Treaty on behalf of the Kingdom in Europe and Netherlands New Guinea only .< p > Done at Rome this twenty-fifth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven .< p > Source Following the entry into force of the Convention on the association of the Netherlands Antilles with the European Economic Community on 1 October 1964, however, the Netherlands Antilles were counted as overseas territories.

1952 ), Dr. David C. Treen, Jr. and Cynthia Treen Lunceford ( born April 2, 1954 ), and nine grandchildren.

He was nominated for the best Original Song Oscar nine times, winning twice, with " Secret Love " from Calamity Jane in 1954 and with " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " from the movie of the same title in 1955.

In 1954 nine professors ( including Mead and Solon Kimball ) came together to discuss the topic.

Naive subjects can only remember about nine binary items, but Miller reports a 1954 experiment in which people were trained to listen to a string of binary digits and ( in one case ) mentally group them into groups of five, recode each group into a name ( e. g. " twenty-one " for 10101 ), and remember the names.

* Lester Piggott, jockey and racehorse trainer who rode the first of his record nine Derby winners Never Say Die ( 1954 ) while living with his father Keith Piggott in Lambourn