In 1959, Oldsmobile models were completely redesigned with a rocket motif from front to rear, as the top of the front fenders had a chrome rocket, while the body-length fins were shaped as rocket exhausts which culminated in a fin-top taillight ( concave on the 98 models while convex on the 88 models ).

The 1959 models were marketed as " the Linear Look ", and also featured a bar-graph speedometer which showed a green indicator through, then changed to orange until, then was red above that until the highest speed read by the speedometer,.

After the Lincoln line's very large 1958, 1959 and 1960 models proved unpopular, McNamara pushed for smaller versions, such as the 1961 Lincoln Continental — now an icon among 1960s automobiles.

Feature detection models, such as the Pandemonium system for classifying letters ( Selfridge, 1959 ), suggest that the stimuli are broken down into their component parts for identification.

Regardless of Stalin's death in 1952, the USSR and its satellite countries continued to encourage workers to exceed production targets and to publicise those who did so. In September 1959 near Neustrelitz, East Germany, a forester on his Simson ( company )# 250cc road models | AWO 425T motorcycle congratulates a team of women who achieved 184 % of work target by planting 25, 000 saplings in the time that they were set a quota of 16, 000.

1959 models had even bigger engines, a and later a Chrysler V8, and were quite a bit faster despite their extra weight.

GM wagons would adopt the rear-facing third row with 1959 models until 1971, and again in 1977.

The dashboard was revised twice ; the binnacle surrounding the steering column was replaced by a central panel with twin dials towards the driver's side in 1956 ; the last from 1959 had twin dials in a binnacle in front of the driver and ' magic ribbon ' AC speedo similar to the 1957 E-series Vauxhall Velox / Cresta and ' 58 /' 59 PA models, and included a glovebox.

" Ford issued a statement that it would distribute coupons to customers who purchased 1960 models ( and carryover 1959 models ) prior to the announcement, valued at $ 300 to $ 400 toward the purchase of new Ford products to offset the decreased values.

In 1959 Volvo provided front seat belts as standard equipment on all the cars, including the export models, becoming the world's first manufacturer to take this step — later becoming the first car featuring three-point seat belts.

The flathead 6 which started with the 1933 Model PC stayed in the Plymouth until the 1959 models.

The name was used for the top models in Ford's full-size range from 1959 until 1961, in a marketing attempt to appeal to the excitement surrounding the Space Race.

Among the models was the Skyliner, featuring a retractable hardtop that folded down into the trunk space ; this feature, impressive but complicated, expensive and leaving very little trunk room when folded down, did not last long, being produced from 1957 through 1959.

De Luxe models from the second dashboard update in 1959 included glove box locks.

The dashboard was revised twice ; the binnacle surrounding the steering column was replaced by a central panel with twin dials towards the driver's side in 1956 ; the last from 1959 had twin dials in a binnacle in front of the driver and ' magic ribbon ' AC speedo similar to the 1957 E-series Vauxhall Velox / Cresta and ' 58 /' 59 PA models.

The Brougham build-quality was not nearly to the standard of the Detroit hand-built 1957 – 1958 models, and thus the 1959 – 1960 Broughams did not sell as well as their forebears.

1959, 1962, 1963, and 1977 ( modified to resemble the 1963 model ) models were utilized.

Gradually the models became more sophisticated with the addition of such features as ' Glidamatic ' spring suspension and a detailed interior on the Renault Floride ( 222 ) in October 1959, and the fibre-optic style ' Trans-o-Lite ' illuminating lights system first seen on the Superior Ambulance on Cadillac Chassis ( 437 ) in October 1962.

In December 1959 Corgi Toys produced packs of stickers which could be affixed to personalise Corgi models.

Any 1959 models that retain that early engine today are true survivors.

Built in 1959, it is where the current Falcon and Territory models are manufactured.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

He also accepted the title of president after Keelty resigned in mid-December 1959.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.

He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), The Apartment ( 1960 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), and Tribute ( 1980 ).

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

It was also in 1959 that he was finally, at the age of 60, elected to the Académie française.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

The Children of Gebelawi ( 1959, also known as " Children of our Alley ") one of Mahfouz's best known works, has been banned in Egypt for alleged blasphemy over its allegorical portrayal of God and the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, until the ban was released in 2006.

The widespread recourse to the auctioneer tale appears to have favored an interpretation of perfect competition as meaning price taking always, i. e. also at non-equilibrium prices ; but this is rejected e. g. by Arrow ( 1959 ) or Mas-Colell et al.

) also allows a reconciliation of the horizontal demand curve facing each firm according to the theory, with the feeling of businessmen that " contrary to economic theory, sales are by no means unlimited at the current market price " ( Arrow 1959 p. 49 ).

An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960, under the title Biography in Time.