Meanwhile, tensions between the two nations rose as 1956 saw the suppression of Hungary by the soviets ; the U. S. and European nations drew certain conclusions from that event, while in the U. S., a powerful social backlash was afoot, prompted by Senator Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two atomic spies.

* John McCarthy ( journalist ) ( born 1956 ), British hostage and journalist

* 1956, John McCarthy invents the alpha-beta search algorithm.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

When the film was released domestically in February 1956, many theatres displayed several of the pods ( made of paper ) at theatre lobbies and entrances along with large lifelike black and white cutouts of McCarthy and Wynter running frantically away from a crowd.

Bergen, together with his favourite figure, Charlie McCarthy, hosted a radio program that was broadcast from 1937 to 1956.

McCarthy proposed similar ideas during the Dartmouth Conference in 1956 and suggested it to a group of his students including Alan Kotok at MIT in 1961.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

Sheila McCarthy ( born January 27, 1956 ) is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer.

John Patrick McCarthy CBE ( born 27 November 1956 ) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis.

John McCarthy, who was one of the prime researchers of this field, termed this concept of machine intelligence as " artificial intelligence " ( AI ) during the Dartmouth summer in 1956.

*" Riviera " ( song ), a 1956 song written by Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy, Jr. and performed by Mabel Mercer or Blossom Dearie

* The term artificial intelligence was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy.

Her brother, actor Kevin McCarthy, went on to star in such movies as Death of a Salesman ( 1951 ) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ).

After frequent auditions, McCarthy was hired by WJR as a staff announcer in 1956.

One of her most famous songs from that period is " The Riviera ", which was written and composed by Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy Jr. in 1956.

The film was remade by the same director in 1956 with the title Nightmare this time starring Edward G. Robinson playing the cop and Kevin McCarthy.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

The LEO project was also a pioneer in outsourcing: in 1956, Lyons started doing the payroll calculations for Ford UK and others on the LEO I machine.

Both Davis and Evans were personally acquainted with the ideas of pianist George Russell regarding modal jazz, Davis from discussions with Russell and others before the Birth of the Cool sessions, and Evans from study with Russell in 1956.

In 1970, claiming to act in retribution for the June 1956 León Suárez massacre and Juan José Valle's execution, the Montoneros kidnapped and executed former dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu ( 1955 – 1958 ) and others who they said were his collaborators, such as unionists, politicians, diplomats, and businessmen.

* May 4, 1956: in Prince George's County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George's County after he had been reprimanded from the school.

In 1956, the town of Mission San José incorporated with four others to become the City of Fremont.

John Rewald, an art historian focused on the birth of Modern art, wrote a series of books about the Post-Impressionist period, including Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ) and an essay, Paul Gauguin: Letters to Ambroise Vollard and André Fontainas ( included in Rewald's Studies in Post-Impressionism, 1986 ), discusses Gauguin's years in Tahiti, and the struggles of his survival as seen through correspondence with the art dealer Vollard and others.

Sławomir Rawicz claimed in his book The Long Walk, published in 1956, that as he and some others were crossing the Himalayas in the winter of 1940, their path was blocked for hours by two bipedal animals that were doing seemingly nothing but shuffling around in the snow.

Ratzeburg is known for its Olympic champion Ratzeburg Rowing Club, which was responsible for training, among others, the Gold Medalists at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

By 1956, Revue became the top supplier of television for all broadcast networks, spanning three decades of television programs such as Armour Theater, General Electric Theater, Leave It to Beaver, Wagon Train, and many others.

The Silicon Controlled Rectifier ( SCR ) or Thyristor proposed by William Shockley in 1950 and championed by Moll and others at Bell Labs was developed in 1956 by power engineers at General Electric ( G. E.

Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives ' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of " contempt of Congress " for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.

According to some accounts, Sergei Korolev started some work on the concept in 1956 at his OKB-1, while others attribute the work to Vladimir Chelomei's OKB-52 around 1959.

* 1956: Galerie l ' Actuelle, with Riopelle, Borduas, Sam Francis, McEwen, and others

Several movies were produced about Wilhelm Voigt ( most of them based on Zuckmayer's play ), among others Der Hauptmann von Köpenick with Heinz Rühmann in 1956, with Rudolf Platte in 1960 ( TV ) and Harald Juhnke in 1997.

When it transferred to television on the ITV network, first in 1956 and then again from 1964, it began the show business careers of Les Dawson, Lena Zavaroni, Pam Ayres and Mary Hopkin, among others.

This technique, known as " soak stain " was used by Jackson Pollock ( 1912 – 1956 ), and others ; and was adopted by other artists notably Morris Louis ( 1912 – 1962 ), and Kenneth Noland ( 1924 – 2010 ), and launched the second generation of the Color Field school of painting.

Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition comprises Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan ( 1956 ), several short stories such as Toba Tek Singh ( 1955 ) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as Subh-e-Azadi ( Freedom ’ s Dawn, 1947 ) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas ( 1974 ), Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges ( 1965 ), and Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man ( 1988 ), among others.

When the second ban expired in 1956, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others.

In 1956, Kaman began to diversify as an aerospace subcontractor of McDonnell Douglas, Grumman and others.

In 1956, Shir-Cliff edited a humor anthology, The Wild Reader, for Ballantine, including essays, poems and satirical pieces by Robert Benchley, Art Buchwald, Tom Lehrer, John Lardner, Shepherd Mead, Ogden Nash, S. J. Perelman, Frank Sullivan, James Thurber and others.

In the 1950 and 60s, after working on the Universities and Left Review, Hall joined E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams and others to launch the New Left Review in the wake of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary ( which saw many thousands of members leave the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) and look for alternatives to previous orthodoxies ).

In 1956 Blofeld was one of only three batsmen for Public Schools to score a century against Combined Services ( the others being Peter May and Colin Cowdrey ) and he was given the Cricket Society's award for the most promising young player of the season.

In 1956, for example, leading British Labour Party politician and author Anthony Crosland claimed that capitalism had been abolished in Britain and socialism established, although others, such as Welshman Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, disputed the claim that Britain was a socialist state.