The next decade saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies including It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ).

The Great Tea Race of 1866 showcased their speed.

" Unfortunately, the rest of the season did not go as well, and The Great American Race was his only victory that year.

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

He also had a longtime working relationship with director Blake Edwards, starring in My Sister Eileen ( 1955 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ) and That's Life!

He appeared in numerous films such as The Princess Bride, The Great Race and Next, and television guest roles.

Falk's first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin ( they would later act together in The Great Race and the Columbo episode " Suitable For Framing ").

Other roles included a comical crook in the 1964 Rat Pack film, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and the 1965 spoof The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

These epidemics — which left thousands of children and adults paralyzed — provided the impetus for a " Great Race " towards the development of a vaccine.

* The Great Race ( rowing ) ( New Zealand )

Adam Diment's Philip McAlpine is a long-haired, hashish-smoking fop in the novels The Dolly Dolly Spy ( 1967 ), The Great Spy Race ( 1968 ), The Bang Bang Birds ( 1968 ) and Think, Inc. ( 1971 ).

Siberians gained in popularity with the story of the " Great Race of Mercy ," the 1925 serum run to Nome, which made dogs Balto and Togo famous.

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia, Shareen Brysac, 2001, ISBN 0-349-11366-1

He was mentioned in " The Great Steamboat Race " by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa.

In Grant's 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, Europeans who were not of Germanic origin, but who had Nordic characteristics such as blonde / red hair and blue / green / gray eyes were considered to be a Nordic admixture and suitable for Aryanization.

With the success of the studio's 1965 Broadway play The Great Race, as well as its soundtrack, Warner Bros. Records became a profitable subsidiary.

* September – The Great Tea Race of 1866 ends in London, narrowly won by the clipper ship Taeping.

* January 27 – February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome ( the " Great Race of Mercy ") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U. S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.

Kristiana Gregory's book The Great Railroad Race ( part of the " Dear America " series ) is written as a diary by Libby West, who chronicles the end of the building of the railroad and the excitement which engulfed the country at the time.

He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his most well-known films including Experiment in Terror, The Great Race, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers.

* The Great Race ( 1965 )

The event serves as the final event of Speedweeks and is sometimes referred to as " The Great American Race " or the " Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing.

Henry Mancini composed a famous Polka ( Pie in the face Polka ) for the 1965 film The Great Race.

Known as the " Great Race ", the Bathurst 1000 is a traditional 1000 km test of drivers, teams and machines held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales.

The 2006 Bathurst 1000 became a very emotional event to all drivers, teams, friends and fans of one of its greatest drivers in its history, 9 time winner of the " Great Race ", Peter Brock ( killed in the Targa West rally event the month before ).

The Great Race of Yith are aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

The Great Race are beings of enormous intellectual and psychic powers that once dwelt on the dying world of Yith.

In the bodies that the Great Race of Yith inhabited on the Earth, they were tall and cone-shaped, rising to a point with four strange appendages, all of which can extend and recede at will to any distance up to about ten feet.

Any creature which is possessed by the Great Race of Yith has the host's mind transferred to the original Yithian's body.

Because of this, when the Great Race of Yith felt obliged to transfer their minds to the ' beetle folk ' due to their defeat against the flying polyps, the people who originally possessed the bodies of the Coleopterous race would presumably have been destroyed by the victorious polyps.

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The Elder Things are known to have warred against the star-spawn of Cthulhu, the Great Race of Yith, and the Mi-go.

Their minds were so strange that the Great Race of Yith could not perform psychic transfers with them.

When the Great Race of Yith came to Earth, they warred with the polyps and soon drove them underground with their advanced technology.

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Apparently, this passage, which leads to the temple, is the ancient prison of the flying polyps, the enemy of the Great Race of Yith.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.