According to Goel, when he wanted to apply for a passport in 1955, he was told that his case was receiving attention from the Prime Minister himself, and his application was not granted.

Goel, 1998 ) ( 1955 )

On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley was asked by Sullivan to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit " Sixteen Tons ".

Dunne was present at Disneyland on " Dedication Day " in 1955 and was asked by Walt Disney to christen the Mark Twain River Boat, which she did with a bottle filled with water from several major rivers across the United States.

" He was buried in a vault at Orgonon that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955.

In April 1955, Spare was asked to give an interview for the BBC radio show People Talking, presented by Dennis Mitchell.

" In 1955, she sued to get out of a contract with the studio, but asked for her $ 150, 000 salary, alleging filming failed to start when agreed.

In 1955, Powell made her last-ever film appearance when she appeared in Have Faith in Our Children, a three-minute short film produced for the Variety Club of Northern California in which Powell asked viewers to donate to the charity.

However, he was asked by Republic Pictures to adapt the music of Richard Wagner for a film biography of the composer, released in Trucolor, as Magic Fire ( 1955 ), directed by William Dieterle from a script by Ewald Andre Dupont.

He was asked to leave the church in 1955, the same year that he broke up with his first wife Camille Ballowe.

In December 1955, following the resignation of Lord Jowitt, Alexander was asked by Hugh Gaitskell to take over as leader of the small group of Labour peers.

The first such move came in 1955, when the Commission of Fine Arts asked the federal government to build the plaza, but nothing came of the proposal.

His last race was the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1955, when Stanley " Wacky " Arnolt asked Dreyfus to captain the Arnolt-Bristol Racing Team.

Following Parker's death in her Stanhope rooms in 1955, Koenigswarter was asked to leave by the hotel management ; she re-located to the Bolivar Hotel at 230 Central Park West, a building commemorated in Thelonious Monk's 1956 tune " Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are ".

He was asked to be a guest aerospace education instructor at a smaller squadron at Moisant Airport, and lectured there from June to September 1955.

The highest first-class score of his career came against Leicestershire in 1955 ; however, his innings was cut short on the orders of his captain, Cyril Washbrook, who asked that Statham get himself out so that he would be fresh to bowl.

In 1955, Bartle, a Democrat with no previous political experience, was asked to run for mayor of Kansas City on the Citizens ' Association ticket.

In 1955, he was asked to assist Fairchild / ArmaLite in ( unsuccessfully ) promoting Eugene Stoner's AR-10 rifle with the U. S. Department of Defense, then with ArmaLite and Colt's Manufacturing Company as an advocate for the AR-15.

Hedrick, a painter and veteran of the Korean War, approached Ginsberg in the summer of 1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.

In 1955, Bertram K. Little, then SPNEA director, asked Cummings to join SPNEA as assistant director and editor of Old-Time New England.

Urethane foam, as only one example, was only introduced commercially in this country in 1955.

His talent extended to playing mandolin on one of the tracks of this rare British EP, recorded in London on 28 July 1955.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

In 1955 the Lions toured South Africa and left with another imposing record, one draw and 19 wins from the 25 fixtures.

His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

In 1955 American nuclear arms policy became one aimed primarily at arms control as opposed to disarmament.

In 1955, Bob Casey, a well-known " sock hop " DJ, brought the two-turntable system to the U. S. Throughout the 1950s, payola continued to be a problem and one result of the payola scandal was tighter control of the music by station management.

It was designated the European Grand Prix two times, 1955 and 1963, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

In computing, the KOMPILER was one of the first language compilation and runtime systems for International Business Machines ' IBM 701, the fastest commercial U. S. computer available in 1955.

In New Orleans, in October 1955, Oswald left the 10th grade after one month.

Cohen ( 1955 ): working class teenagers joined gangs due to frustration of inability to achieve status and goals of the middle class ; Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ): blocked opportunity, but unequal distribution of opportunities lead to creating different types of gangs ( that is, some focused on robbery and property theft, some on fighting and conflict and some were retreatists focusing on drug taking ); Spergel ( 1966 ) was one of the first criminologists to focus on evidence-based practice rather than intuition into gang life and culture.

* However, one Hitchcock film, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), is still under Paramount's ownership, since Paramount is the copyright owner of the film.

The A's would struggle on for four more years with only one winning team, and then abandon Philadelphia ( under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack ) and start play in Kansas City in 1955.

Their lyrics, by Roy Alfred ( who later co-wrote the 1955 hit "( The ) Rock and Roll Waltz "), were mildly sexually suggestive, and one teenager from Philadelphia said " That Hucklebuck was a very nasty dance ".

The transmitting part of the modem converts the digital signal transmitted by the teleprinter or tape reader to one or the other of a pair of audio frequency tones, traditionally 2295 / 2125 Hz ( US ) or 2125 / 1955 Hz ( Europe ).

It was signed as an agreement between the two countries on October 23, 1954 as one of the Paris Pacts, but a plebiscite held on October 23, 1955 rejected it by 67. 7 %.

By 1955, the internal power struggle between the two ( main ) factions of the Phibul regime-led by Police General Phao Sriyanonda, on the one hand, and General ( later, Field Marshal ) Srisdi Dhanarajata, on the other-became fierce to the degree that Police General Phao Sriyanonda sought the U. S. support for a coup against the Phibul regime ( but was rejected ).

Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992 / 93 season and gathers the top 1-4 teams of each country's league ( the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded ); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country ( and thus less competitive, held from 1955 – 1992 and known as the European Champion Clubs Cup or just European Cup ).

Kenneth Tynan ridiculed Leigh's performance opposite Olivier in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus, commenting that she " receives the news that she is about to be ravished on her husband's corpse with little more than the mild annoyance of one who would have preferred foam rubber.

" He was one of several critics to react negatively to her reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth in 1955, saying that her performance was insubstantial and lacked the necessary fury demanded of the role ; however, after her death he revised his opinion, describing his earlier criticism as " one of the worst errors of judgment " he had ever made.

In 1955, the IWW was listed by the US government as one of many Communist-led groups.