If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

The Russian gymnasts beat the tar out of the American gymnasts in the 1960 Olympics for one reason -- they were better.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

Along with giga-or G -, meaning, they are now known as SI prefixes after the International System of Units ( SI ), introduced in 1960 to formalize aspects of the metric system.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Waves of immigration from around the globe peaking in 1910 and 1960 had a lesser influence, but they did make Canada a multicultural country, ready to accept linguistic change from around the world during the current period of globalization.

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

Although both Arnaz and Ball remarried to other spouses after their divorce in 1960, they remained friends, and grew closer in his final decade.

As the dacoits flourished through the 1950s-1970s, they were theme was several films made in the era, starting with Ganga Jamuna ( 1961 ) and Raj Kapoor ’ s Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai ( 1960 ), and Sunil Dutt's classic, Mujhe Jeene Do ( 1963 ).

He remained married to Coyne from 1960 until her death in 1973 and they had two children, Bridget and Tim.

Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with the PRC when sharp polemics erupted between the PRC and the Soviet Union.

The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1977 ( they had separated in 1960 ), and finally married Fanny Vlamynck on 20 May of the same year.

* 1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the " barricades week ", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.

Similarly, jury trials were abolished by the government of India in 1960 ( this was followed by Pakistan soon afterwards ) on the grounds they would be susceptible to media and public influence.

Jury trials were abolished by the government of India in 1960 on the grounds they would be susceptible to media and public influence.

< http :// www. oxfordreference. com > 27 October 2011 </ ref > In fact many literary modernists lived into the 1950s and 1960, though generally speaking they were no longer producing major works.

In 1960, Brando married Movita Castaneda, a Mexican-American actress seven years his senior ; they were divorced in 1962.

Falk married Alyce Mayo, whom he had met when they were both students at Syracuse University, on April 17, 1960.

Since the Soviets claimed to have first detected the new element they suggested the name kurchatovium, Ku, in honor of Igor Kurchatov ( 1903 – 1960 ), former head of Soviet nuclear research.

This was exhibited in the 1960 – 61 Test series against the visiting West Indians, in which the grounds were packed to greater levels than they are today despite Australia's population doubling since then.

Under Mao, the People's Republic grew antagonistic towards what they saw as the new Soviet leadership's " revisionism ", resulting in the Sino-Soviet Split in 1960.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

John Allen Muhammad ( December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009 ) was a convicted murderer On November 9, 2009, the Supreme Court of the United States refused a last-minute appeal.

In 1959 and 1960 she underwent operations to remove her cataracts, which she had formerly refused to do.

In 1960, when Rogers asked to buy in to Toddle House, and they refused, he moved back to Atlanta and rejoined Waffle House, now a chain of three restaurants, to run restaurant operations.

During season seven ( 1959 – 1960 ) Terry was brought back played by Penny Parker ( as Jackson was still insulted by her firing the year before and refused to return ) for a seven episode story arc which saw her engaged and eventually married to Pat Hannigan ( Pat Harrington, Jr .), a nightclub friend of Danny's.

Arlott received support from many people over his uncompromising stand, including future England captain, Mike Brearley, who called for the cessation of all South African tours and the Reverend David Sheppard, who had been one of the first players to speak out against apartheid and who had also previously refused to play against the 1960 South African touring side.

He won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Dieu est né en exil ( God was born in exile ) in 1960 ; however, following the allegations that he had been a member of the Iron Guard, Vintilă Horia refused the Goncourt.

When Stevens scored her own hit single with " Sixteen Reasons " in 1960, Warner Bros. refused to allow her to perform it on Hawaiian Eye because it was not published by MPHC, and they also prevented her from singing it on The Ed Sullivan Show, thereby robbing her of nationwide promotion ( and a $ 5000 appearance fee ).

The team did not win a national title until 1974 with its first cut of the throne and in 1988 with its first victory in the championship followed by a Champions League in 1989, without counting the championship title refused to Raja in the 1959 – 1960 season.

Negotiations for merger began in 1960, and initially, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the prime minister of Malaya, refused.

Most famously, he refused to design for Elizabeth Taylor in 1960, at the height of her celebrity, due to her demands for design input ; later, he refused to design for Barbra Streisand for similar reasons.

The prince was offered the position of Korean Ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1960, but refused on the grounds of illness.

In February 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, four young African-American college students entered a Woolworth store and sat down at the counter but were refused service.

Congo became independent in 30 June 1960, but the Belgian commander refused to " Africanize " the officers ' corps of the Force Publique ( the army ), and because of that disorder and mutinies broke out.

Cinderfella was postponed for a Christmas 1960 release, and Paramount, needing a quickie feature film for its summer 1960 schedule, held Lewis to his contract to produce one.

His debut release was Texas Songster ( 1960 ).

Tracy did not appear on the screen again until October 1960, with the release of Inherit the Wind, a film based on the 1925 Scopes " Monkey Trial " which debated the right to teach evolution in schools.

The UN Security Council was called into session on 7 December 1960 to consider Soviet demands that the UN seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo.

The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven, this was also rejected.

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

After his release from the hospital in November 1960, Saint Laurent sued Dior for breach of contract and won.

In 1960, Gold collaborated again with Fred Hoyle to show that magnetic energy fueled solar flares and that flares were triggered when opposite magnetic loops interact and release their stored energy.

In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of a profitable film trilogy, a remake of the film from 1960 with the members of The Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean.

Morath worked again with Huston in 1960 on the set of The Misfits, a film featuring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift, with a screenplay by Arthur Miller, which became a blockbuster after release.

When Burke arrived for his first recording session at the Atlantic Records studio at 1841 Broadway, Manhattan, New York on 13 December 1960, he was given four songs, including his first Atlantic release, " Keep the Magic Working ", which was a flop, and " Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Empty Arms )", a cover of a country song written and recorded by Virgil " Pappy " Stewart, that had been a minor hit for Faron Young in 1953 (# 10 C & W ), and later for Patsy Cline.

Although admirers would argue that Powell ought to rank alongside fellow British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean, his career suffered a severe reversal after the release of the controversial psychological thriller film Peeping Tom, made in 1960 as a solo effort.

Upon his release in 1960, Haggard said it took about four months to get used to being out of the penitentiary and that, at times, he actually wanted to go back in.

On 28 February 1960, a public meeting of 25, 000 in Nairobi demanded his release.

On 15 April 1960, over a million signatures for a plea to release him were presented to the Governor.

" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.

After his release in June 1960, he struggled to meet family obligations, and Carolyn divorced him when his parole period expired in 1963.

The signing of the former Sun Records singer, Roy Orbison, brought more success to Monument Records, beginning with the 1960 release, " Only the Lonely ".

His 1960 novel Rabbit, Run, the first of four chronicling the rising and falling fortunes of Harry " Rabbit " Angstrom over the course of four decades against the backdrop of the major events of the second half of the 20th century, broke new ground on its release in its characterization and detail of the American middle class and frank discussion of taboo topics such as adultery.

" A Fool in Love " became a hit after its release in the late spring of 1960, reaching # 2 R & B and # 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over a million copies.

A year later, in 1952, even before his release from prison, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was elected as leader federal a post he kept till his death in 1960.

" When 1960 arrived, rather than releasing the Third Secret, the Vatican published an official press release stating that it was " most probable the Secret would remain, forever, under absolute seal.