The generals of the early 1990s had been junior officers in the early 1960s and had witnessed the military coup in 1964.

A 1964 ad expressed the main advantage of the PDP-5, " Now you can own the PDP-5 computer for what a core memory alone used to cost: $ 27, 000 " 116 PDP-5s were produced until the lines were shut down in early 1967.

In early 1964, a new crisis broke out as Congolese rebels calling themselves " Simba " ( Swahili for " Lion ") rebelled against the government.

Students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s players in Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Georgia would toss Frisbees in 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

The Ford GT40 was first raced in May 1964 at the Nürburgring 1000 km race where it retired with suspension failure after holding second place early in the event.

He was " taken ill in early hours " of 27 May 1964 and died in " early afternoon " on same day, and his death was announced to Lok Sabha at 1400 local time ; cause of death is believed to be heart attack.

He initially worked as an assistant director at Northampton repertory theatre ( now known as Royal & Derngate ), but in the early 1960s moved into television direction and was credited in this role on early episodes of Z-Cars in 1964.

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

This occurred in the early 1960s, with the Army issuing it in late 1964.

Allen Aylett was a brilliant player in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( and captain between 1961 and 1964 ), as was Noel Teasdale, who lost the Brownlow Medal on a countback in 1965 ( he was later awarded a retrospective medal when the counting system was amended ).

Zanzibar paid an annual subsidy to Muscat and Oman until its independence in early 1964.

In early systems an order including the grass family did not go by the name Poales but by a descriptive botanical name such as Graminales in the Engler system ( update of 1964 ) and in the Hutchinson system ( first edition, first volume, 1926 ), Glumiflorae in the Wettstein system ( last revised 1935 ) or Glumaceae in the Bentham & Hooker system ( third volume, 1883 ).

During the 1960s Coronation Street ’ s main rival was Crossroads, a daily serial that began in 1964 and was broadcast by ITV in the early evening.

The Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels, initiated by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman, but authored anonymously, ran to over 260 separate books between 1964 and the early 1990s and invariably pitted American, Soviet and Chinese spies against each other.

By the early 1960s, a campaign to rid New York City of gay bars was in full effect by order of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who was concerned about the image of the city in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

Powell advocated the privatisation of the Post Office and the telephone network as early as 1964, over 20 years before the latter actually took place ; and he both scorned the idea of " consensus politics " and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and " old boy network " associations.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

Benny Carter became Fletcher's main arranger in the early 30's, moving on become as famous for his arranging expertise as his musicianship.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

Clarinetist Larry Shields received particularly positive attention on this tour, and Benny Goodman commented that Shields was an important early influence.

Also popular was the Casa Loma Orchestra and Benny Goodman ’ s early band.

While still in his early teens, he was playing in local clubs, and went on to play with the bands of Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and Maynard Ferguson.

Most jazz bands adopted this style by the early 1930s, but " sweet " bands remained the most popular for white dancers until Benny Goodman's appearance at the Palomar Ballroom in August 1935.

During the 1920s and very early 1930s, Henderson actually wrote few, if any, arrangements ; most of his recordings were arranged by Redman ( c. 1923 – 1927 ) or Benny Carter ( after 1927 – c. 1931 ).

As the Royal Navy mass on Malta in the early stages of the Suez Crisis, Stencil arrives with Benny in tow, searching for Fausto Maijstral.

He is credited with introducing new generations of listeners to artists of the early and middle twentieth century whom they may not have otherwise discovered, such as Haywire Mac, Spike Jones, Benny Bell, Yogi Yorgesson, and Tom Lehrer, as well as with bringing parodist " Weird Al " Yankovic to national attention.

Bostic's early jazz solos bear similarity to Benny Carter's long flowing lines.

In 1928 financial problems forced James Callahan, to sell the team to an ownership group which included Bill Dwyer, an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger, and Benny Leonard, a fight promoter and ex-lightweight boxing champion, as his front man.

The band members include musicians from the early 1990s, including SMc, P Lock, and Benny Boy.

Herger retired from radio and television to dedicate himself fully to his career as a psychologist during the early 1980s due to his personal experience rebounding from depression after the murder of one of his children ( 1994 ), Benny.

She sang frequently on early television shows such as The Jack Benny Program, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Ed Sullivan Show.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

The early Benny Beaver " cartoon " icon / logo was created by famous graphic illustrator, and former Disney employee, Arthur C. Evans.

Between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, Benny was often joined at sporting events by a co-mascot, known as " Bernice Beaver.

Previous leadership in the U. S. included Glenn Mones, Barry Liben, Fred Pierce ( early to mid 70's ), and Benny Rosen ( 60's ).

Moltisanti's other early work involved robbing a charity concert at Rutgers, and working with Jackie Aprile, Jr. and his friend Benny Fazio.

Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as Tell It to Groucho and The Jack Benny Show, where she appeared on October 30, 1962 as " Darla " in a spoof of the Our Gang comedies with Jack Benny ( who appeared as Alfalfa ).