Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

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.

He also accepted the title of president after Keelty resigned in mid-December 1959.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.

He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), The Apartment ( 1960 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), and Tribute ( 1980 ).

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

It was also in 1959 that he was finally, at the age of 60, elected to the Académie française.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

The Children of Gebelawi ( 1959, also known as " Children of our Alley ") one of Mahfouz's best known works, has been banned in Egypt for alleged blasphemy over its allegorical portrayal of God and the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, until the ban was released in 2006.

The widespread recourse to the auctioneer tale appears to have favored an interpretation of perfect competition as meaning price taking always, i. e. also at non-equilibrium prices ; but this is rejected e. g. by Arrow ( 1959 ) or Mas-Colell et al.

) also allows a reconciliation of the horizontal demand curve facing each firm according to the theory, with the feeling of businessmen that " contrary to economic theory, sales are by no means unlimited at the current market price " ( Arrow 1959 p. 49 ).

An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960, under the title Biography in Time.

The Dreadnought was built on designs supplied by the United States in 1959 and was launched last year.

* 1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

* 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched.

* 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

* 1959 – The is launched.

* 1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

In 1959 NNS launched its first nuclear-powered submarine, Shark as well as the ballistic missile submarine Robert E. Lee.

* Pioneer 4 – Lunar flyby, achieved Earth escape velocity, launched March 3, 1959

* 1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.

A debate launched in 1961 by Adorno and Karl Popper, later published as the Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, arose out of disagreements at the 1959 14th German Sociology Conference in Berlin.

A 1959 national tour launched on July 1, 1959.

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

Electric Boat built the first nuclear submarine,, which was launched in January 1954, and the first ballistic missile submarine,, in 1959, amongst others.

* Rook ( rocket ), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Quartz iodine lamps, using elemental iodine, were the first commercial halogen lamps launched by GE in 1959.

" Although Pampers were conceptualized in 1959, the diapers themselves were not launched into the market until 1961.

The first innovative camera series from Olympus was the Pen, launched in 1959.

Luna 1 was launched 2 January 1959 at 16: 41 GMT ( 19: 41 Moscow Time ) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by a Luna 8K72 rocket.

* Pioneer 4-a similar NASA mission launched 3 March 1959, two months after Luna 1.

* Luna 1-a similar Soviet space program mission launched January 2, 1959, several weeks before Pioneer 4.

The spacecraft was launched on an Air Force-Convair Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile coupled to Thor-Able upper stages including an Able x 248 rocket third stage, on November 26, 1959.

Vandenberg launched the world's first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer I on 28 February 1959.

Development of the TRANSIT system began in 1958, and a prototype satellite, Transit 1A, was launched in September 1959.