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.

In the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959.

There were four ad hoc three-game playoff series due to ties under this formulation ( in 1946, 1951, 1959 and 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 ).

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1959 TV series ), a CBS network live action television show

In 1959, Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with a series of romantic comedies.

It was founded circa 1958 – 1959 after the publication of its ( first ) holy book the Principia Discordia, written by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst after a series of shared hallucinations at a bowling alley.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

* Enterprise, the title ship in the 1959 – 1961 television series Riverboat

In 1959, she played Tula Marsh in the episode " The Second Happiest Day " of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

Hoover was a consultant to Warner Bros. for a 1959 theatrical film about the FBI, The FBI Story, and in 1965 on Warner Bros .' long-running spin-off television series, The F. B. I.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

They then became known for a series of satirical comedy films, such as Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Lucky Jim ( 1957 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

The series was revived, reformatted and reimagined after its initial 1955 – 1959 run on ABC, first in 1977 for syndication, and again, from 1989 to 1995 on the Disney Channel.

During the years of the series Bonanza ( 1959 – 1973 ), no major or secondary Native characters appeared on a consistent basis.

The series The Lone Ranger ( 1949 – 1957 ), Cheyenne ( 1957 – 1963 ), and Law of the Plainsman ( 1959 – 1963 ) had Native characters who were essentially aides to the central white characters.

By paying the collectivized peasants low state-controlled prices for their product, and using the surplus thus extracted to pay for industrial development, the state carried out a series of three-year plans, which brought industry's share of the economy from 47 % in 1946 to 70 % in 1959, despite the devastation of the Korean War.

* 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

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He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

The series failed to secure a sponsor and ended in 1959 after a run of 156 episodes.

In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.

Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour.

From 1957 – 1959, they worked in six-month stretches at Cadbury's to raise money for a new flat ; they moved into a small, austere flat at 25 Noel Road in Islington in 1959.

The potential of very small machines was appreciated before the technology existed that could make them — see, for example, Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.

His first film performances were in small roles in Wind Across the Everglades ( 1958 ), The Bloody Brood ( 1959 ) and Pretty Boy Floyd ( 1960 ).

Gay and transgender people staged a small riot in Los Angeles in 1959 in response to police harassment.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

Monmouth remained a relatively sedate and quiet small town for most of the 20th century ; its passenger rail services ended in 1959, but its road connections greatly improved with the new A40 bypassing the town in 1966, and later connecting the town to the motorway system.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

The Mini is a small economy car that was made by the British Motor Corporation ( BMC ) and its successors from 1959 until 2000.

In 1959 DAF started selling the world's first car with a continuously variable transmission, the small four-seater DAF 600.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

In 1959 Sykes wrote and directed the one-off BBC special Gala Opening, with a cast that included ' Professor ' Stanley Unwin and Hattie Jacques, and played a small supporting role in the Tommy Steele film Tommy the Toreador.

McNamara was a force behind the wildly popular Ford Falcon sedan, introduced in the fall of 1959 — a small, simple and inexpensive-to-produce counter to the large, expensive vehicles prominent in the late 1950s.

About March 12, 1959 the Lake County Board unanimously rejected Brickman's small lot zoning request.

According to an article in the Oregonian in 1959, he named his home Troutdale because it had a " small dale near his house where it had a fish pond which he stocked with trout.

The Ardmore Drive-In operated from 1959 to 1976 ; it was then torn down and was replaced with a shopping center that included a Dollar Bank, Gold Circle Department Store, Giant Eagle, Rite Aid, and several small shops and restaurants.

Richard Howgill, who held the post from 1952 to 1959, took the view that although Webern " might have been a small composer of some significance, Schoenberg wasn't really a composer at all.

* Doris Karnes seems to have had no acting career other than small roles in two Twilight Zone installments and three episodes of other TV series, all between 1959 and 1962.

Black ( who took that name from her first husband, Charles Black ) began her film career in 1959 with a small role in The Prime Time.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).