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 ).

* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

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

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Aalto first presented his scheme in 1961, but it went through various modifications during the early 1960s.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

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

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

* Unmanned air vehicles are the latest form of air observation, having been first introduced in the early 1960s.

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.

Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

* 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.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

In the early 1960s, AT & T introduced digital telephony first on long-distance trunk lines.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

Because of this, the United States Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie program was cancelled in the early 1960s ; the later B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft entered service only after protracted political and development problems.

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

The United States, particularly through its counterinsurgency doctrines of the early 1960s, was more influential with the older group of officers.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

Others such as Stanford Phelps, an early co-associate and rival at Drexel, have also contested his credit as pioneering the modern high-yield market.

The Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) at Stanford Research Institute, directed by Douglas Engelbart, was another of the four first ARPANET nodes and the source of early RFCs.

The " Stanford ratio " of 3: 1 remained in place until the early 1960s.

Stanford follows a quarter system with Autumn quarter usually starting in late September and Spring Quarter ending in early June.

Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.

During a fateful track and field meet with Stanford University, the USC team was beaten early and seemingly conclusively.

The optical fiber amplifier was invented by H. J. Shaw and Michel Digonnet at Stanford University, California, in the early 1980s.

Along with Ken Kesey, Hunter was an early volunteer MKUltra test subject at Stanford University.

" Davis was surprised to discover that the majority of those serving in Vietnam were Latinos, African Americans and southern whites with very few from schools like Stanford and Columbia ; Davis believed that the burden of the war should be felt equally and he resolved early on to go about changing America so that would change.

The zenith of his group's advancements was the Geometry Engine, an early hardware accelerator for rendering computer images based on geometric models which he developed in 1979 with his students at Stanford.

There were two early churches in Stanford: the Christian Church on Boundary Street south of the business district and the Presbyterian Church in the southeastern part of town.

Notable natives of Centralia include modern dancer Merce Cunningham, Arizona Diamondback Lyle Overbay, cable television and early mobile phone entrepreneur Craig McCaw, CFL offensive lineman Calvin Armstrong, video game designer and programmer Soren Johnson, Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard, former MLB outfielder Bob Coluccio, Metropolitan Opera soprano Angela Meade.

programs in the early 1900s at Stanford University and Yale continued to include " cultural study ," which included courses in languages, mathematics and economics.

In the early 1970s, Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ).

On November 24, 1982, three days after the November 20th Big Game ( now known for The Play ), early morning readers of the Daily Cal were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page: " NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford.

A Stanford University School of Medicine meta-analysis of clinical studies on the subject published in early 2007 showed that the application of GH on healthy elderly patients increased muscle by about 2 kg and decreased body fat by the same amount.

He says: " My early career leaving Stanford in 1959 was devoted to setting up business schools in low-income countries-starting with Ethiopia ".

Around 1962, Hunter was an early volunteer test subject ( along with Ken Kesey ) for psychedelic chemicals at Stanford University's research covertly sponsored by the CIA in their MKULTRA program.

Although Adam Kissiah was a full-time employee with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, he participated as a consultant in an implantation program during the early 1980s through license agreement granted by Kissiah to Biostim, Inc., who in turn participated ( also by contractual agreement ) with Stanford University, Dr. Robert L. White and Dr. F Blair Simmons, principal investigators, during their program of cochlear implants ( See Stanford University Cochlear Implant Program ).

In the early 20th century the German-influenced 19th century song-writing traditions generally followed by Parry, Stanford, Elgar and the youthful Roger Quilter, were in a process of eclipse.

Becoming a computer operator in the early 1960s, he began publishing many noteworthy papers and was appointed an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University by the time he was 27 and became a full professor at Stanford University six years later.

These projects were active from the 1970s through 1995, and followed up early psychic research done at The Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ), Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC ), The American Society for Psychical Research, and other psychical research labs.