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.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

One company instituted, early in 1959, a vertical classification system consisting of four levels.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Alberto was the eldest of four children and was interested in art from an early age.

Microprocessors such as the Intel 8008, the direct predecessor of the 8080 and the 8086, used in early personal computers, could also perform a small number of operations on four bits, such as the DAA ( Decimal Add Adjust ) instruction, and the auxiliary carry ( AC / NA ) flag, which were used to implement decimal arithmetic routines.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

In early Buddhism, the four elements are a basis for understanding suffering and for liberating oneself from suffering.

The crossbow is portrayed as a hunting weapon on four Pictish stones from early medieval Scotland ( 6th to 9th centuries ): St. Vigeans no.

Eastern chipmunks mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters of four or five young twice each year.

The early capitalists theory is also unsound in that merchants were at the bottom of the four occupations due to Confucianism's hostility to commerce.

Among the early Germans a freedman remained under the taint of ancestral servitude until the third generation, i. e., until he could show four free-born ancestors.

In early 1992, the government decided to permit multiple party politics and agreed to the registration of four political parties.

At their peak in the early ' 60s, the Brubeck Quartet was releasing as many as four albums a year.

In the 19th century, research was conducted on a small quantity of remains of four specimens that had been brought to Europe in the early 17th century.

Dragons can have a variable number of legs: none, two, four, or more when it comes to early European literature.

The boundary dispute led to the Cenepa War between Ecuador and Peru in early 1995 ; after a peace agreement brokered by the four Guarantors of the Rio Protocol ( Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States ), the Military Observers Mission to Ecuador-Peru ( MOMEP ) was set up to monitor the zone.

These early Equidae were fox-sized animals with three toes on the hind feet, and four on the front feet.

The early days of the industry, from 1896 to 1902, saw the dominance of four firms: Pathé Frères, the Gaumont Film Company, the Georges Méliès company, and the Lumières.

Some of their early films include four written by A. A. Milne including The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms.