In 1961, the company introduced the polar bear as its unusual choice of mascot, to imply that the rum could ward off the coldest chill.

The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

Although much of his legal reform proposals were not established in his life time, his legal legacy was considered by the magazine New Scientist, in a publication of 1961, as having influenced the drafting of the Code Napoleon, and the law reforms introduced by Sir Robert Peel.

In response to the Falcon, Holden introduced the facelifted EK series in 1961 ; the new model featured two-tone paintwork and optional Hydramatic automatic transmission.

In 1961 IBM introduced the model 1311 disk drive, which was about the size of a washing machine and stored two million characters on a removable disk " pack.

It was introduced around the time the team was founded in 1961.

MIT's CTSS, one of the first time sharing systems, was introduced in 1961.

Created and developed in 1893 and introduced as " Brad's Drink ", it was later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, then to Pepsi in 1961.

The 4000 was followed by the very popular 4001 ( in 1961 ), the 4002 ( limited edition bass introduced in 1977 ), the 4008 ( an eight-string model introduced in the mid-1970s ), the 4003 ( in 1979, replacing the 4001 entirely in 1986 and still in production in 2012 ), and most recently the 4004 series.

Stax's next major hit, the Mar-Keys ' instrumental " Last Night " ( also released in 1961 ) introduced the rawer Memphis soul sound for which Stax became known.

In May 1961, the junta declared " Pledges of the Revolution ": anticommunism was to be the nation's main policy ; friendly relations would be strengthened with allies of the free world, notably the United States ; all corruption and government misdeed would be disposed and " fresh and clean morality " would be introduced ; the reconstruction of a self-reliant economy would be priority ; the nation's ability would be nurtured to fight against communism and achieve reunification ; and that government would be returned to a democratic civilian government within two years.

In 1961 Ford introduced the FE 390 in a low drag Galaxie " Starliner ", but 1960 and ' 61 championships were won by drivers in 409-powered Chevrolet Impalas.

Motor traffic using the route increased rapidly after World War II, and two new ferries with a capacity of 30 cars each were introduced by 1961.

Merck introduced the second member of the TCA family, amitriptyline ( Elavil ), in 1961.

Ferrari introduced a very successful 120 ° V6 racing engine in 1961.

Pulse-code modulation allowed sharing a coder and decoder among several voice trunks, so this method was chosen for the T1 system introduced into local use in 1961.

In 1961, he introduced Warren Beatty in his first screen appearance with a starring role in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 ), with Natalie Wood ; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one.

Three times ( in 1961, 1963, and 1965 ) in his early terms as a Congressman, Anderson introduced a constitutional amendment to attempt to " recognize the law and authority of Jesus Christ " over the United States.

In 1961 the PNM had introduced the Representation of the People Bill.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1961

Burroughs Corporation introduced the B5000 in 1961 with the MCP ( Master Control Program ) operating system.

The Georgia Legislature will wind up its 1961 session Monday and head for home -- where some of the highway bond money it approved will follow shortly.

Business Week ( Aug. 9, 1961 ) reports that the United Aircraft Company, against which the International Association of Machinists had undertaken a strike, decided to keep its plants operating.

In the 12 months ended in February, 1961, this highway earned 93 per cent of its interest.

* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.

* 1961 – Motown releases what would be its first # 1 hit, " Please Mr. Postman " by The Marvelettes.

* 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The village, which has its own parish council, has a population of 5, 093 and the parish has an acreage of as of 1961.

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

Labour's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

Dallas logged its first win in the series on October 29, 1961 and New York's first was on November 11, 1962.

The ELF initiated military operations in 1961 and intensified its activities in response to the dissolution of the federation in 1962.

In 1961, Ethiopia appointed its first Ambassador to Kenya and six years later Kenya opened an Embassy in Addis Ababa.

On May 6, 1961, the commission sent its draft to President Ayub Khan who thoroughly examined the draft with consulting with his cabinet.

Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).

The PAIGC moved its headquarters to Conakry, Guinea, in 1960 and started an armed rebellion against the Portuguese in 1961 ( for a detailed account of this struggle, see the PAIGC page ).

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

On July 25, 1961, Kennedy insisted in a presidential address that the U. S. would defend West Berlin, asserting its Four-Power rights, while making it clear that challenging the Soviet presence in Germany was not possible.

In 1961, Ethiopia appointed its first Ambassador to Kenya and six years later Kenya opened an Embassy in Addis Ababa.

Since its independence in 1961, Kuwait maintained strong international relations with most countries, especially nations within the Arab world.