When Caledonian's senior management began evaluating competing state-of-the-art jet aircraft types as potential replacements for the Britannia in its long-haul role in the mid-1960s, the Boeing 707 320C series was favoured because of its superior range and payload compared with its contemporary rivals.

In the mid-1960s, WGOE briefly had an FM sister station under different ownership when the Reynolds brothers took on management duties on local classical FM station 103. 7 WFMV, which was onwed by Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company.

By the mid-1960s the company was struggling under the weight of two complete management hierarchies, and they appeared to be unable to control the company any more.

In the mid-1960s the WR decided upon maroon as its new house colour for mainline diesel locomotives, this going very much against standard schemes imposed by BR's overall management.

As the Detroit power wars heated up in the mid-1960s, Chrysler decided to produce a small block V8 specifically designed for high-performance applications.

After creating an early body of work made up of closed form wooden objects, heavily-lacquered by hand, in the mid-1960s he “ decided to remove the skin altogether and reveal the structure .” This skeletal form, the radically simplified open cube, became a basic building block of the artist ’ s three-dimensional work.

After Philip Lombardo replaced Thomas Eboli as effective boss in the mid-1960s, Lombardo decided that Eboli should continue to perform the outward functions of the boss while Lombardo secretly made all the decisions.

The stand was built originally to comply with new stadium all-seater regulations, and the name of the stand was decided after the death of the club's legendary captain from the successful mid-1960s side in the same year of construction.

During the mid-1960s, the firm ’ s leadership decided to expand internationally.

Due to higher levels of water ingress as the mine shafts were developed under the North Sea, and resultant higher costs of operation and coal extraction, it was decided to close the mine in the mid-1960s.

In the mid-1960s, several Westerners, including " Eight Finger Eddie " walked over the hill to Calangute, and decided to create a community for Westerners.

The band was founded around mid-1960s, when musicians Vittorio De Scalzi, Nico Di Palo, Mauro Chiarugi, Giorgio D ' Adamo and Gianni Belleno decided to form a band called New Trolls, after the name of the previous band of one of them, The Trolls.

In the mid-1960s, Donnelly decided to call for an alliance between the Labour Party and the Liberal Party.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

The awareness about non-manageable amounts of data grew along with the advent of ever more powerful data processing since the mid-1960s.

Fringe or splinter movements inspired by the final writings of Qutb in the mid-1960s ( particularly the manifesto " Milestones ," aka Ma ' alim fi-l-Tariq ) did, however, develop and they pursued a more radical direction.

The instrumental arrangements on tracks such as " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " and " Licking Stick-Licking Stick " ( both recorded in 1968 ) and " Funky Drummer " ( recorded in 1969 ) featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on multiple interlocking riffs.

Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them.

In the mid-1960s Armstrong developed more of the property and established a second campus of Ambassador College, the original campus of which continued to operate at the church's headquarters facility in Pasadena, California.

Jones teamed with Les Goldman to form Sib Tower 12 Productions to work with MGM on the Tom and Jerry series in the mid-1960s ; his shorts were not as popular as the Hanna-Barbera originals but more so than the Gene Deitch shorts produced overseas in the early 1960s.

After gaining a keen interest in academia in the mid-1960s she chose to sing songs with more profound lyrics.

The mid-1960s to early 1970s became an even more successful time period for Warwick, who saw a string of Gold selling albums and Top 20 and Top 10 hit singles.

Motown had established branch offices in both New York City and Los Angeles during the mid-1960s, and by 1969 had begun gradually moving more of its operations to Los Angeles.

The blues boom overlapped, both chronologically and in terms of personnel, with the earlier, wider rhythm and blues phase, which had begun to peter out in the mid-1960s leaving a nucleus of instrumentalists with a wide knowledge of blues forms and techniques, which they would carry into the pursuit of more purist blues interests.

In the mid-1960s, under Roy Abernethy's leadership, AMC focused on larger and more profitable car lines to move away from the perceived negative of the Rambler's compact car image.

Since the mid-1960s and the rise of more organized and specific militant groups, such as the PLO, the word has fallen out of usage, but not in the historical context.

Distortion became more popular from the mid-1960s, when The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies produced distortion effects by connecting the already distorted output of one amplifier into the input of another.

By the mid-1960s, the paper had more than recovered its losses after Rice's criticism of Billy Graham ; in 1974, circulation of The Sword of the Lord was over 300, 000.

The bank, which had entered the 1950s with 31 Branch Offices in Switzerland and three abroad, more than doubled its assets from the end of the war to CHF4 billion by the end of the 1950s and doubled assets again by the mid-1960s, exceeding CHF10 billion in 1965.

In the mid-1960s the U. S. Army concluded that a purpose-built attack helicopter with more speed and firepower than current armed helicopters was required in the face of increasingly intense ground fire ( often using heavy machine guns and anti-tank rockets ) from Viet Cong and NVA troops.

The " contactees " of the early 1950s said that the " space brothers " they met were peaceful and benevolent, but by the mid-1960s, a number of alleged Alien abductions ; including that of Betty and Barney Hill, and of the apparent mutilation of cattle cast the ETH in more sinister terms.

Much like its radio counterparts ( especially CKLW-AM, which became a Top 40 powerhouse in the Detroit market in the mid-1960s ), the station looked more American than Canadian.

The majority of Mid-Canada Line stations were used only briefly from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, as the attack threat changed from bombers to ICBMs ; the early warning role passed almost entirely to the more capable DEW Line further north.

In addition to the release of dozens of books and creation of six international conferences, more than 1000 peer-reviewed clinical papers detailing the use of psychedelic compounds ( administered to approximately 40, 000 patients ) were published by the mid-1960s.

He and other black politicians had strongly opposed the 1895 state constitution, which essentially disfranchised most African-American citizens, a situation that the state maintained for more than half a century until passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.

Blacks were disfranchised for more than 60 years, until after passage in the mid-1960s of federal civil rights legislation.

The mid-1960s also saw the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway across Newfoundland, an event which eventually led to the closure of the railway by 1988, but which made Port aux Basques into an even more important gateway to the island of Newfoundland, given the increased number of tourists visiting the province, and the rising amount of truck traffic.

In the South, practices of slavery shaped the institutions of convict leasing, sharecropping, and Jim Crow laws to enforce racial segregation, white supremacy and legal disfranchisement that persisted into the mid-1960s.

Most blacks were disfranchised until after the mid-1960s, when the civil rights movement gained passage of federal legislation to enforce integration and voting rights.

After disfranchisement was achieved in new state constitutions at the turn of the century, no African American would be elected from the South until 1972, after the Civil Rights Movement and passage of federal legislation in the mid-1960s to enforce integration and protection of voting rights.

By the mid-1960s several disciplines at Union had established a senior research thesis requirement, and in 1978 the College began funding faculty-mentored student research in all disciplines.