During the 1950s and 1960s, Afghanistan purchased moderate quantities of Soviet weapons to keep the military up to date.

Paramount Pictures was not connected to Paramount Records until it purchased the rights to use the name ( but not its catalog ) in the late 1960s.

Dundalk and the surrounding area is served by a local newspaper, the Dundalk Herald which was purchased in the 1960s by its present owners ' parents, Walter and Phylis Walls.

Richland, which was located in the far southeast corner of the township, was purchased by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1960s as a part of the land acquired for Clinton Lake.

In the mid 1960s, Prescott Valley Incorporated, a real-estate company from Phoenix, purchased land in an area 10 miles east of Prescott known as Lonesome Valley.

Emory University purchased the home in the 1960s and renovated it.

Willingboro land was purchased and developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a planned community by Abraham Levitt and Sons in the Levittown model, with the 1950 population of 852 exploding to 11, 861 in 1960 and 43, 386 in 1970.

In the 1960s and 1970s, several parcels of land were donated or purchased to form the Sewickley Heights Borough Park.

In the early 1960s Meccano Ltd experienced financial problems and was purchased by Lines Bros Ltd ( Tri-ang ) in 1964.

Amrep Corporation purchased 55, 000 acres ( 220 km² ) in 1961 and turned the land into a housing development called " Rio Rancho Estates " with the first families moving in the early 1960s, most of whom were New Yorkers.

In the early 1960s, when the Orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, patron and prominent Montreal philanthropist, John Wilson McConnell, purchased the Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius violin of 1727 for Calvin Sieb, the Symphony's concertmaster.

Kember purchased a Burns Jazz electric guitar and 1960s Vox Conqueror amplifier ; whilst Pierce bought a Fender Telecaster and a 1970s HH amplifier.

Peter Kember had purchased an unusual electric guitar near the end of 1987: a Vox Starstream made in the late 1960s.

In the 1960s Raasay House and various other properties were purchased by Dr John Green, a resident of Sussex who visited the island only once and whose lack of interest in it earned him the sobriquet " Dr No ".

Since the 1960s, railroad distributed power technology has been dominated by one company, Harris Controls ( originally Harris Corporation — Controls and Composition Division, later purchased by General Electric, and now known as GE Transportation Systems Global Signalling ), who have manufactured and marketed a patented radio-control system known as Locotrol that is the predominant ( perhaps only?

Caterham Cars had been a major Lotus 7 dealer during the 1960s, and its founder, Graham Nearn, purchased the rights to continue manufacture of the Seven design from Chapman in 1973, after Lotus announced its intention to discontinue the model.

In the 1960s, as a result of the project, Hyde Park's average income soared by seventy percent, but its Black population fell by forty percent, since the substandard housing primarily occupied by low income minorities had been purchased, torn down, and replaced, with the residents not being able to afford to remain in the newly rehabilitated areas.

By the early 1960s, the DC-4 was proving outdated, and therefore a DC-6B was purchased in January 1962.

In the 1960s, he had an array of dipoles set up on the sheep grazing property of Dennistoun, about 7. 5 km northeast of the town of Bothwell, where he lived in a house of his own design and construction he decided to build after he purchased a job lot of coach bolts at a local auction.

This began when Murdoch's News Ltd purchased the Wollongong station WIN Television in the early 1960s, around the same time he bought Festival Records.

In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was purchased by the Pritzker family and became a member of an association of companies which eventually adopted the name The Marmon Group.

In the early 1960s, Humble Oil & Refining Company purchased Tidewater's western refining and marketing properties, with the intention of rebranding Flying A stations in the western U. S. to Enco ( later Exxon ).

The fourteen engines purchased by the Southern Railway in 1946 remained in service well into the 1960s.

These locomotive designs were intended to replace aging MLW and GMD units CN had purchased during the late 1960s and early 1970s, although only a token combined order of 30 units were built.

Many of the Local Authority Homes have been purchased by the tenants, some of whom still reside in the houses that were built new in the 1960s.

They note his lack of action during the Rwanda genocide and his welfare reform which some claim led to the worst child poverty since the 1960s along with the fact that the number of black people in jail increased during his administration.

Only the daytime games survived during this period ; game shows remained a fixture of daytime television through the 1960s along with soap operas, reruns, and local telecasts of old films.

'.. Kenyatta did not have to worry about the political reliability of the Kenyan Army because expatriate senior British military advisors ran it along KAR lines throughout the 1960s.

It had been presumed that the sharks were trapped within the lake, but this was found to be incorrect in the late 1960s, when it was discovered that they were able to jump along the rapids of the San Juan River ( which connects Lake Nicaragua and the Caribbean Sea ), almost like salmon.

In the late 1960s he described his own approach ( along with all of mainstream economics ) as using " Keynesian language and apparatus " yet rejecting its " initial " conclusions.

Moncton was placed on the Trans-Canada Highway network in the early 1960s after Route 2 was built along the northern perimeter of the city.

South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three members of Asian Tigers.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

In the 1960s the surviving 8 of these 22 persons, along with many of their descendants and approximately 2, 000 other individuals in their communities participated in the process of officially organizing a Tuscarora political infrastructure in Robeson County.

By the end of the 1960s, a number of small magazines dedicated to the hobby were springing up, along with new game companies.

Also in the 1960s, the Mattachine Society of New York was associated with other groups ( including the Mattachine Society of Washington ) in ECHO ( East Coast Homophile Organizations ) and, from 1966 ( along with Mattachine Midwest ), in NACHO ( North American Conference of Homophile Organizations ).

" Its use during that era would have been perceived as a quaint or ironic use of bygone slang: part of the dated 1960s lexicon along with words such as " groovy ".

Modern residential zones surround the centre of Bari, the result of chaotic development during the 1960s and 1970s replacing the old suburbs that had developed along roads splaying outwards from gates in the city walls.

The construction of the motorway in the 1960s played a big role when new inhabitants moved to Kauniainen, when they could drive quickly along the motorway into Helsinki's city centre.

Starting in the late 1960s, importing companies targeted large boardwalk projects to sell ipê, beginning with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (" Parks ") which maintains the city's boardwalks, including along the beach of Coney Island.

Morrissey's songwriting was influenced by punk rock and post-punk bands such as the New York Dolls, The Cramps, and The Cult, along with 1960s girl groups, and singers such as Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull and Timi Yuro.

Advances in the 1960s, especially the development of CPR and defibrillation as the standard form of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, along with new pharmaceuticals, led to changes in the tasks of the ambulances.

" Nouvelle Résistance was also a successor to Jean-François Thiriart's Jeune Europe neo-Nazi Europeanist movement of the 1960s, which had participated in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others.

During the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement.

Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

Traditional westerns died out in the late 1960s as a result of network changes in demographic targeting along with pressure from parental television groups.

The basic structure of socionics was established in the 1960s and 1970s by Aušra Augusta ( formerly Augustinavičiūtė ), along with a group of enthusiasts who met in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were built along the river ending this river traffic on Spanish and border sections.

In the 1960s it was tried to break the power of the sea by installing tetrapods along the groyne bases or by putting them into the sea like groynes.