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.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

Bruce gained his early reputation from the production of large-scale commercial anchors for ships and fixed installations such as oil rigs.

In export-led growth ( such as oil and early industrial goods ), the balance of trade will improve during an economic expansion.

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt 1868, an early example of plein-air impressionism, in which a gestural and suggestive use of oil paint was presented as a finished work of art.

Gabon depended on timber and manganese until oil was discovered offshore in the early 1970s.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

The early efforts failed because of complex geology, and, more importantly, because the refining techniques then available could not manufacture high-quality kerosene from California crude oil, which differed chemically from Pennsylvania crude oil.

Most California crude oil in the early years was turned into the less lucrative products of fuel oil and asphalt.

A Russian sea captain noted oil seeps along the shore of the Cook Inlet as early as 1853, and oil drilling began in 1898 in a number of locations along the southern coast of Alaska.

In late 2004 and early 2005, regular sabotage of plants and pipelines reduced export and domestic distribution of oil, particularly to Baghdad.

One early commercial application of information theory was in the field seismic oil exploration.

The prices of all five metals increased between 1950 and 1975, but Ehrlich believes three of the five went down during the 1980s because of the price of oil doubling in 1979, and because of a world-wide recession in the early 1980s.

By late July the first ship had left with a full cargo of oil ; the rest left early in August, several filled with oil.

By early 1864, they had a producing deep oil well, named Wilhelmina for Mears ' wife, yielding 25 barrels ( 4 kL ) of crude oil daily, then considered a good yield.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

Colza oil replaced whale oil in the early 1850s, but U. S. farmers ' lack of interest in growing this caused the service to switch to lard oil in the mid 1850s.

In early lighthouses, the light source was a kerosene lamp or, earlier, an animal or vegetable oil Argand lamp, and the lenses rotated by a weight driven clockwork assembly wound by lighthouse keepers, sometimes as often as every two hours.