From April 1956 to October 1957 the 312th TFW rotated tactical squadrons to either Châteauroux-Déols Air Base or Etain-Rouvres Air Base in France, for six month deployments to NATO.

These include the NATO Air Training Plan ( 1950 – 1957 ) that graduated 4, 600 pilots and navigators from 10 countries.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

In 1957, SACEUR General Lauris Norstad, USAF, noting the numerical superiority of Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces over NATO ground forces, called for " about 30 divisions ” to augment NATO ’ s central European front.

General Hastings Lionel " Pug " Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC ( – ) was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.

The plot reflects several actual cold-war incidents of tense stand-offs between NATO and Soviet navies, including one in 1957 when a US Submarine was caught in Russian waters, and chased out to sea by Soviet warships.

Operation Deep Water was a 1957 NATO naval exercise held in the Mediterranean Sea that involved the first units of the United States Marine Corps to participate in a helicopter-borne vertical envelopment operation during an overseas deployment.

In 1957 NATO had specified that its forces should use multi-fuel engines.

Gale initially retired in 1957, but early in 1958 he was recalled to serve with NATO and replaced Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe ; he retired permanently in 1960 after three years in the post.

* West Germany 1957 – 1962 – NATO assignment

* Frank Roberts ( diplomat ) | Sir Frank Roberts ( 1907 – 1998 ), Minister Plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union, 1945 – 1947, Private Secretary to Ernest Bevin, 1947 – 1949, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954 – 1957, Ambassador to NATO, 1957 – 1960, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1960 – 1962, and Ambassador to West Germany 1963 – 1968

Following some weather balloon operations, pilots began flying American Lockheed U-2 airplane reconnaissance missions as part of " Operation Overflight " by late 1957, including on nonstop flights back and forth between Incirlik and a NATO Air Base at the Norwegian town Bodø.

He was subsequently appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied NATO ground forces in Central Europe in April 1957, a command that he held until retirement in September 1963.

More reforms of the armed forces took place with the 1957 Defence White Paper, which saw further reductions implemented ; the Government realised after the debacle of the Suez War that Britain was no longer a global superpower and decided to withdraw from most of its commitments in the world, limiting the armed forces to concentrating on NATO, with an increased reliance upon nuclear weapons.

In 1957, Ollenhauer called for a trans-European security alliance ( in place of NATO and the Warsaw Pact ), in which a reunified Germany would serve as an equal partner.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

Following the unexpected death of the Bahá ' í Faith's first Guardian Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the 27 living Hands of the Cause, having the responsibility to acknowledge any appointment of a successor, gathered and decided that he had died " without having appointed his successor ," and that the Universal House of Justice would decide on the situation after its first election.

After a series of odd jobs, Anthony decided to join the U. S. Army in 1957 for a steady source of income and medical coverage for his pregnant wife.

After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley decided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among others.

Only one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, got the chance to graduate ; after the 1957 – 58 school year was over, the Little Rock school system decided to shut public schools completely rather than continue to integrate.

That cut was worked on and trimmed down by Universal staff, and in late 1957 Universal decided to perform some reshoots.

Detroit Pistons logo 1957 – 1971. Due to Detroit's economy being extremely reliant on the manufacturing of cars, they decided to keep the Pistons name.

In 1957, James Arthur Atwood III, grandson of James S. Atwood, and the rest of the company directors decided to cease all operations resulting in the company's final closing.

Located in northern Bexley, the Governor ’ s Mansion — originally built as a private residence in 1925 and given to the state in 1955 — has been home to Ohio governors from 1957 – 2010, when Governor John Kasich controversially decided to reside at his home in Westerville.

Wauwatosa received some national attention in 1992 when the Wauwatosa Common Council, threatened with a lawsuit, decided to remove a Christian cross from the City's seal adopted in 1957.

Mindful of the enormous success of the Philharmonia Chorus, founded in 1957 by Legge to work with his Philharmonia Orchestra, the LSO decided to establish its own chorus.

After his Ohio and Minnesota tours in the summer of 1957, he decided to form his own band with members closer to his age.

In 1957 Davies and Korner decided that their central interest was the blues and closed the skiffle club, reopening a month later as The London Blues and Barrelhouse Club.

He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship.

Clark decided to pitch the show to ABC president Thomas W. Moore, and after some badgering the show was picked up nationally, becoming American Bandstand on August 5, 1957.

He appealed to the Supreme Court, which decided on 25 February 1957 not to review the case.

It also decided to sell all the Douglas DC-3 and Auster aircraft in September 1957 and enter into a five-year agreement with BEA for the latter to operate services on behalf of Cyprus Airways.

Blue Bombers management decided that they needed a new coach prior to the 1957 season.

After the launch of mankind's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, Mao decided during the National Congress of the CCP on May 17, 1958 to make China an equal with the superpowers (“”), by adopting Project 581 with the objective of placing a satellite in orbit by 1959 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PRC's founding.

It was almost decided that he would sign with the Hawks, but he ended up joining the Yomiuri Giants in November, 1957.

In its ruling on 26 March 1957, the court decided that the circumstances surrounding the conclusion of the concordat did not invalidate it.

Allegedly, in 1957, Jenkins decided that his real name wasn't marketable and sought a better show business name.

During the first half of 1957, Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Lazar Kaganovich worked to quietly build support to dismiss Khrushchev.

Founded when a proposal to build a four-lane highway around the lake — with a bridge over the entrance to Emerald Bay — was proposed in 1957, the League has thwarted poorly designed development projects and environmentally unsound planning.

This was only an experimental machine, but its technology was used to build the IBM 608, which shipped in December 1957, and was the first solid-state computing product to be commercialized.

Discussions began in 1952 about the future of the site, and the decision to build new residential properties was taken by the Court of Common Council on 19 September 1957.

Bond issue to build the new stadium ( 1957 )

However, the 1957 – 1958 Forward Look models suffered from poor materials, spotty build quality and inadequate corrosion protection ; they were rust-prone and greatly damaged Chrysler's reputation.

In 1957 twelve locations along the Peace River were identified by the Wrenner-Gren British Columbia Development Company as potential sites to build a dam.

An early attempt to build a large-scale nuclear fusion reactor, the project was started in 1954, and the first successes were achieved in 1957.

Opened in the chapel entrance in 1957, it had taken over two and a half years to build.

Discussions began in 1952 about the future of the site, and the decision to build new residential properties was taken by the Court of Common Council on 19 September 1957.

The Porsche 718 is an open-cockpit racing car build by Porsche between 1957 and 1962.

John " Papa Johnny " Torrio ( January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957 ), also known as " The Fox " and as " The Immune ", was an Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s that was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone.

* 1957 or after: BTH won the contract to build the new Buenos Aires power station, valued at £ 35 million.

From 1947 to 1957, the Brothers began working on the weekends, during summers, and in their spare time to build a gymnasium ( the original Marian Hall ), Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapel, Adrian Hall ( which was demolished in 2001 ), and a residence for the student Brothers ( the original Fontaine Hall ).

In January 1957, Baker went to Atlanta, Georgia to attend a conference aimed at developing a new regional organization to build on the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The residents of Green Bay responded by voting in 1956 to build a new City Stadium, fpr a Bond Referendum, which opened the following year in 1957.

CBS was originally granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission to build channel 11 in January 1957, prevailing over three other locally-based competitors.

* Protea ( car ), a motorcar build in South Africa during 1957 and 1958

He memorably portrayed Major Clipton, the doctor who expresses grave doubts about the sanity of Col. Nicholson's ( Alec Guinness ) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors, in the blockbuster classic film The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ).

In 1957 Ronald Gillespie and Ronald Sydney Nyholm at University College London refined this concept to build a more detailed theory capable of choosing between various alternative geometries.

International Speedway Corporation ( ISC ) was founded as Bill France Racing, Inc. ( later Daytona International Speedway Corporation ) in 1953 and in 1957 the company signed a contract for the use of land on which to build Daytona International Speedway, one of the world's first superspeedways.

In 1957, it was decided to build an execution chamber at the Louisiana State Penitentiary to carry out all executions in Louisiana.

On the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, the 2007 IHY activities will build on the success of IGY 1957 by continuing its legacy of system-sides studies of the extended heliophysical domain.

He convinced RCA to build its own recording studio in Nashville on Seventeenth Avenue South in 1957.