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It ran from 1959 through 1963 with two goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race.
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Donovan snatched Greg's chute from him with a belligerent motion and almost ran to the plane with it.
He jumped back, ducked and ran, crouching, down the hill away from the school.
Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.
The musician ran away from school when he was fifteen, but this escapade did not save him from the Gymnasium.
Hearst won the Iowa state convention, but ran into a bitter battle in Indiana before losing to Parker, drawing an angry statement from Indiana's John W. Kern:
It ran north, away from the town and the people, through woods and past the nothingness of a graveyard.
Cried the guard who ran from the hut to shout to other men standing about outside.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.
Her words jumbled together and she all but ran from the office and from the question in Rev's face.
`` Skip '' Hovarter back in town from a summer in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area where he ran into Rusty Warren, Kay Martin, the Marskmen and Tune Toppers -- all pulling good biz, he says.
She ran from a little group of us.
In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.
The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.
The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.
It ran from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne.
The course ran from the South side of the city, north along the lakefront to Evanston, Illinois, and back again.
Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.
The King ran an office for captives from the Royal Palace, which leveraged the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of prisoners-of-war, receiving and answering letters from Europe.
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Sales of TV sets at retail ran ahead of the like months of 1959 through July ; ;
College Bowl with General Electric as the primary sponsor, the show ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963, and moved back to NBC from 1963 to 1970.
* Campeonato Español de Turismos ( Spanish Touring Car Championship ) ran from 1959 to 1998.
In 1959 he became the host of his own TV drama series, The David Niven Show, which ran for 13 episodes that summer.
During the EOKA struggle that ran from 1955 – 1959, the street acquired the informal nickname The Murder Mile in reference to the frequent targeting of the British colonialists by nationalist fighters along its course.
The series ran from 1957 to 1966, and Burr won Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason.
He went on to play multiple characters, but primarily the lookout Able Seaman ' Fatso ' Johnson and Lieutenant-Commander Stanton, in The Navy Lark, a navy based sitcom on the BBC Light Programme, which ran from 1959 to 1977, with Barker featuring in some 300 episodes.
Whirlwind I ran in a support role for SAGE until June 30, 1959.
The 45 rpm record player was introduced in 1959 and ran through the early 60 " s under the RCA and ARC brand.
Series 2 ran for 20 episodes from 19 March 1959 plus a Christmas special.
Another notable radio show was the double entendre-laden Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ), a sequel to the earlier series Beyond Our Ken, which ran from 1959 to 1964.
Briefly run by Lou Morris, the cinema was taken over in December 1930 by ABC Cinemas who ran it until its closure on 5 December 1959.
Friday ran on radio from June 3, 1949, to February 26, 1957, and on television from December 16, 1951, to August 23, 1959.
* Gina Genovese ( born 1959 ), businesswoman and politician who has served as mayor of the township and recently ran for state senator
Marcos ran and was twice elected as representative of the 2nd district of Ilocos Norte, 1949 – 1959.
The former Leeds tramway ran through Kirkstall until it was dismantled in 1959, a substation used by the tramway is still visible on Abbey Road.
Between 1936 and 17 October 1959, the comic strip Belinda Blue-Eyes ( later shortened to Belinda ) ran in the United Kingdom in the Daily Mirror.
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, an ABC television series, ran from October 1954 to May 1959.
Her production of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T ' Be, a musical about the London underworld, became a hit and ran from 1959 to 1962, transferring to the West End.
From 1959 to 1960, a retrospective of his mimodramas, including The Overcoat by Gogol, ran for a full year at the Amibigu Theatre in Paris.
Bonanza is an NBC-produced western television series that ran on the NBC network from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973.
The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970.
In 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed the service, replacing the Chicago and North Western between Chicago and Omaha ; from January 1959 until 1967 the train ran via Denver.
In 1959, he ran for lieutenant governor and won, serving under segregationist icon Governor Ross Barnett.
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