Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names ( see below ).

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Sparrow I's during tests on a F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s

Soviet-style centralised planning in five-year blocks had more immediate benefits there than in the other European states where it was first applied in the early 1950s.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

In the early 1950s, Armand set aside his dream to focus on developing his company's other tracked vehicles, but by the end of the decade, smaller, more efficient engines had been developed and were starting to come onto the market.

" The early 1950s literature transformed blitzkrieg into a historical military doctrine, which carried the signature of Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian.

He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western swing's popularity, even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished.

Until the early 1950s Budweiser was primarily distributed in three packages: kegs, 12-ounce bottles and quart bottles.

Most breviaries published in the late 1950s and early 1960s used this " Pian Psalter ".

Another precursor was the early development of the theory of computation and the digital computer in the 1940s and 1950s.

Albert Ellis ' system, originated in the early 1950s, was first called rational therapy, and can ( arguably ) be called one of the first forms of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Cognitive psychology is one of the more recent additions to psychological research, having only developed as a separate area within the discipline since the late 1950s and early 1960s following the " cognitive revolution " initiated by Noam Chomsky's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally.

The episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

However, the episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of this backstory, portraying Homer and Marge as a childless couple in the early 1990s.

An early running joke was that Marge considers Flanders to be a perfect neighbor and usually sides with him instead of her husband, which always enrages Homer.

Paramount itself continues to hold the theatrical rights ( and the copyrights ) to the cartoon shorts released after March 1962 ( except for the Comic Kings, which are owned by King Features with the exception of the Little Lulu cartoon Frog's Legs, owned by the estate of Little Lulu's creator Marjorie Henderson Buell, AKA Marge ), and has held video rights since the early days of home video ( though none of the later Paramount cartoons have ever seen video release ).

Homer takes sides with Marge on the issue, despite his early encouragement.

As the writers were trying to figure out a way to get Homer back to his old weight by the end of the episode, someone suggested that Homer should feel bad about his obesity, and therefore become thin for Marge, but that idea was scrapped in early production.

Cragen had been married to a flight attendant named Marge ( Ellen Tobie ) and the two had no children, although, in a continuity error, an early Law & Order episode indicated they had a teenage child.

At dinner that night, Marge leaves early to practice with Flanders.

As a consequence of these changes, a large number of characters, including Marge Green ( Pat Coombs ), Julie Cooper ( Louise Plowright ), Trevor Short ( Phil McDermott ) and Paul Priestly ( Mark Thrippleton ), were axed in early 1990 as the new production machine cleared way for a new direction and new characters.

Clarke played nurse Marge Brown in the early days of the daytime drama General Hospital.

At the time his father, Richard Gower OBE, was working for the Colonial Service in a position in Dar es Salaam, capital of the then British administered territory of Tanganyika, where Gower spent his early childhood.

Gower retired from international cricket and Gooch's perceived " tote-that-barge regime " in early 1993.

Nearly bankrupt by the early 1970s, the studio was saved via a radical overhaul: the Gower Street Studios ( now called " Sunset Gower Studios ") were sold and a new management team was brought in.

He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of fifteen, toured nightclubs with friend Jeanne Tyler billed as " Gower and Jeanne, America's Youngest Dance Team.

He began practice in London in February 1848 ; but early in May the same year difficulties with two of his colleagues at Gower Street and a desire to escape from animosity and contention led him to throw up his appointment.

The signatories of the early day motion were: N Baker ( Lib: Lewes ), J Austin ( Lab: Erith & Thamesmead ), P Bottomley ( Con: Worthing ), R Campbell ( Lab: Blyth ), M Caton ( Lab: Gower ), M Clapham ( Lab: Barnsley & Pennistone ) I Davidson ( Lab: Glasgow SW ) P Flynn ( Lab: Newport ), A George ( Lib: St. Ives ), J Goldsworthy ( Lib: Falmouth ), J Hemming ( Lib: Birmingham ), M Horwood ( Lib: Cheltenham ), B Iddon ( Lab: Bolton ), B Jenkins ( Lab: Tamworth ), L Jones ( Lab: Birminham ), C McCafferty ( Lab: Calder Valley ), A McDonnell ( SD & L: Belfast ), A McKechin ( Lab: Glasgow N ), M Oaten ( Lib: Winchester ), K Purchase ( Lab: Wolverhampton ), A Simpson ( Lab: Nottingham ), J Swinson ( Lib: Dunbartonshire ).

Trained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a prodigy from an early age.

He then attempted several comebacks into boxing during the late 1980s and early 1990s and had some success, most notably a fourth round stoppage of former World Junior Welterweight Champion Billy Costello in a 1986 televised bout that put him in a position for another shot at the Junior Welterweight title.

After the establishment of the UEFA Champions League ( formerly called the European Champion Clubs ' Cup ) in the early 1990s, the standing and prestige of the Cup Winners ' Cup began to decline.

In early 2007, De La Hoya signed to defend his title against WBC Welterweight Champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. ( 37 – 0 – 0 ).

The town is named after General Henry Champion, early owner.

In the early 1980s, Tina Kniseley was a roller figure-skating national champion and Scott Duncan was a WUSA National Champion in wrestling.

Norton additionally worked as a television and radio sports commentator and appeared in popular TV series, such as jailbird " Jackhammer " Jackson in " Pros and Cons ", an early first-season episode of The A-Team ( filmed 1982, broadcast 1983 ), and as boxer Bo Keeler in the fourth season Knight Rider episode " Redemption of a Champion " ( 1986 ).

He appeared in many notable films from the early 1940s through to the mid 1960s, including High Sierra, Champion, They Died with Their Boots On, The Glass Menagerie, Lawrence of Arabia, Peyton Place, Some Came Running, Elmer Gantry and Fantastic Voyage.

The songs featured were part of the band's core repertoire from their early days, including " Stardog Champion ," " Holy Roller ," " Gentle Groove " and a cover of the Argent song " Hold Your Head Up ," a favorite encore from the band's early club days around Seattle.

Their women ’ s program went into a decline with minor occasional success, although much later during the late 1980s and early 1990s, World and Olympic Vault Champion Henrietta Ónodi put them back on the map.

World and Olympic Rings Champion Szilveszter Csollány also kept Hungary on the medal platform at major competitions for a decade starting in the early 1990s.

He learned the game of chess early in life and made good progress nationally, taking the titles of British under-14 Champion and under-21 Champion in 1968 and 1971, respectively.

As one of the most popular independent promotions of the early 1990s, they hosted a tournament to crown a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion after WCW had withdrawn from the NWA.

The Royal Navy began experimenting with Remote Power Control ( RPC ) on HMS Champion in 1928 and began using RPC to control searchlights in the early 1930s.

Amazingly, when Decca started up in late 1934 / early 1935, among the early ( unsuccessful ) labels they produced was Champion and Broadway.

From pedigree research, the " white " ( gelb or " yellow " as it was called in early German records ) gene was introduced into the Miniature Schnauzer breed mainly through a German black Champion Miniature Schnauzer named Peter V Westerberg ( PZ604 ), born in November 1902.

In early 1999, Piper had a short run as United States Champion, became WCW Commissioner, and resumed his feud with Flair over control of WCW.

In the early 1980s, Terry trained the actor John Hurt for his role in the 1983 film Champions, the biopic of jockey Bob Champion.

Frank James Marshall ( August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944 ), was the U. S. Chess Champion from 1909 – 36, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.

Another member of the Notts kennel was an early winner of Best Champion at Crufts in 1911 named Collarbone of Notts.

Volkoff chased the WWF title for the majority of his early career and was always given a considerable number of title shots from whoever was the current WWF Champion.