Seventy-nine were built for the French National Railway SNCF, using a further 186 engines, the last of them remaining in regular use until 1956 or 1958.

While at Columbia, Winding experimented with different instrumentation in brass ensembles: the 1956 album Jay & Kai + 6 features a trombone octet, as well as Winding and Johnson performing on the trombone-like valved horn called the trombonium.

Goehr experimented with Boulez's technique of bloc sonore, particularly in his first String Quartet of 1956 – 57.

The railway experimented with two diesel-electric ALCO S-3 switchers for several months, which were placed in service on July 1, 1956.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

A study of their activity on thyroglobulin has shown that thyroxine is not preferentially released and that the degradation proceeds stepwise with the formation of macromolecular intermediates ( Alpers, Petermann and Rall, 1956 ).

As controls, other sections were similarly treated with Af or conjugated antiserum to the New York strain of potato yellow-dwarf virus ( Wolcyrz and Black, 1956 ).

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

Following a 1956 vote the city of East Ann Arbor merged with Ann Arbor to encompass the eastern sections of the city.

* 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.

Below is a table with Ajax's domestic results since the introduction of the Eredivisie in 1956.

* My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), with Frederick Loewe

1956 saw the debut of the Bald Iggle, considered by some Abner enthusiasts to be the creative high point of the strip, as well as Mammy's revelatory encounter with the " Square Eyes " Family — Capp ’ s thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance.

* Lucy Irvine ( b. 1956 ), writer, lived very briefley in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.

This move began with Burrough's purchase, in June 1956, of the ElectroData Corporation in Pasadena, California, a spinoff of the Consolidated Engineering Corporation which had designed test instruments and had a cooperative relationship with Caltech in Pasadena.

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song " Love Is Strange ", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.

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.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

A recreational scuba diving expedition by the luxury liveaboard safari boat M / V Nautilus Explorer dove the reefs around Clipperton from April 15 to 20, 2007 to observe the marine life and compare these observations with those reported by the Connie Limbaugh ( Scripps ) expeditions in 1956 and 1958.

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

In 1956 Life magazine reported, " Wearing white pajamas and a yellow gnomelike cap, Brâncuși today hobbles about his studio tenderly caring for and communing with the silent host of fish birds, heads, and endless columns which he created.

He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.

Various estimates of the population have been taken since ; in 1956 it was estimated a population of 1, 411, 416, with 54 % Christian and 44 % Muslim.

* 1956 – Rusty Wallace, American race car driver

* 1956 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver ( d. 1986 )

* 1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian race car driver ( d. 1956 )

The car was first called Solitude, but got its final name from the several long distance speed records it made on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy in November 1956.

In 1956, Campbell began planning a car to break the land speed record, which then stood at.

* 1956 – Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver

* 1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver ( d. 1980 )

On 2 December 1956, outside Satara, India, the car in which Baba was being driven went out of control and a second serious automobile accident occurred.

* 1956 – Ricky Rudd, American race car driver

* 1956 – Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine race car driver

* 1956 – Stefan Johansson, Swedish race car driver

* September 12 – Lou Moore, American race car driver and team owner ( d. 1956 )

* May 2 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver ( b. 1956 )

* January 23 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver ( d. 1956 )

A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956.

The 1955 Citroën DS featuring powered inboard front disc brakes was the first French application of this technology, while the 1956 Triumph TR3 was the first English production car to feature modern disc brakes.

Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, which garnered 72 million viewers ( Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident ).

The Beetle had marked a significant trend led by Volkswagen, Fiat, and Renault whereby the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout had increased from 2. 6 percent of continental Western Europe's car production in 1946 to 26. 6 percent in 1956.

Jackson Pollock died in a car crash on Springs-Fireplace Road in 1956.

The Hall of Fame also serves as the town ’ s official visitor ’ s center, where you can see Alan Kulwicki ’ s championship winning 1992 Ford, and Curtis Turner ’ s famous “ Purple Hog ," a 1956 Ford race car.

Later, after a disfiguring car crash in 1956, and alcohol and prescription drug abuse, he became erratic.

On the evening of May 12 1956, while filming Raintree County, Clift was involved in a serious auto accident when he smashed his car into a telephone pole after leaving a dinner party at the Beverly Hills home of his Raintree County co-star and close friend Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Michael Wilding.

In mid 1961, several months after the initial release of The Misfits, Clift appeared on TV discussion program The Hy Gardner Show, where he spoke at length about the release of his current film ; he also talked publicly for the first time about his 1956 car accident and its after effects, as well as his film career, and treatment by the press.

The futuristic car carrying the couple who find the dying Farwell is a leftover prop, somewhat modified, from MGM's 1956 film Forbidden Planet.