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unusual facts about Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 1



Alfio Bruno Tempera

Started in the early sixties with films such as It Started in Naples by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, and The Agony and the Ecstasy by Carol Reed, with Charlton Heston.

Ángela Rodicio

Cirilio Rodríguez reported the most important events of the sixties and the seventies like the arrival of the man to the moon, the Watergate scandal and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Barry Tebb

His poetry was first published by Alan Tarling's 'Poet and Printer Press' in the sixties, along with Ted Hughes, Michael Longley and Ian Crichton Smith.

Bellacorick

Unfortunately, although the visually attractive chimney has been removed, the visually offensive derelict sixties-style block buildings, several storeys in height, are still standing, ungraciously draped with green netting, as a blot on the landscape.

Benjamin Herder

The strong religious revival that set in with the sixties was heralded by Franz Hettinger's pioneer work, the Apologie des Christentums, which set forth the religious teachings of Christianity to the cultured world in well-timed fashion, and which, reprinted again and again, and constantly improved, continues to exercise a potent influence in five foreign civilized languages even to this day.

Bobbejaanland

It was founded by Bobbejaan Schoepen, a Flemish singer, guitarist, and entertainer who enjoyed international popularity in the fifties and early sixties.

Bournbrook

Until the mid-sixties, Bournbrook was the home to Ariel motorcycles owned by first Charles Sangster then his son Jack Sangster, and with their main factory in Dale Road.

Cals cabinet

There was also social unrest ('the sixties'), which became apparent in the Provo movement, construction worker protests, riots over the marriage of princess Beatrix in Amsterdam and the rise of new parties like Boerenpartij, Pacifist Socialist Party, GPV and D'66.

Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine

In the early sixties, the President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah sent Dr. Oku Ampofo and others to China to benefit from the Chinese experience in herbal medicine.

Charlie Hurley

In the late sixties, alongside Jimmy Montgomery, Cecil Irwin, Len Ashurst, Martin Harvey and Jim McNab, Hurley formed one of the most notable and most settled back fives in Sunderland's history.

Community development

With Indian independence, despite the continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and capitalism.During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme with focus on rural development activities through government support.

Demain à Nanguila

A portrait of Mali in the sixties by means of the nightlife in Bamako, the capital’s monuments, women bent under the weight of too many tasks, Nanguila Tomorrow is regarded as the first Malian film.

Dief Will Be the Chief Again

After Ali regained his title after a gap of many years by winning the bout, Rae commented that with Ali's victory, other events from the late Fifties and early Sixties could now recur: Floyd Patterson could now defeat Ali, Marilyn Bell could swim Lake Ontario again, and Diefenbaker could again be Prime Minister.

Elias Zazi

Elias Zazi who was raised in the sixties in Lebanon was already acquainted with the Arabic music and the Syriac Orthodox Church music.

Ennio Guarnieri

In the late sixties, for his ability to portray actresses, Guarnieri became trusted cinemtographer for stars such as Virna Lisi, Sylva Koscina and Tina Aumont, for which he made extensive use of soft focus, backlight and scrims.

Francis Brerewood

The latter sailed to Maryland, by now in his sixties, where he became a successful land manager, and founded a short-lived town called Charlotte Town on the site of present day Monkton, Maryland.

François Cheng

His first works were on Chinese poetry and painting, and in the late sixties and early seventies he worked closely with the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan on texts from the classical Chinese canon.

George Lakoff

I came up with the beginnings of an alternative theory in 1963 and, along with wonderful collaborators like "Haj" Ross and Jim McCawley, developed it through the sixties.

Ghost Box Music

Releases on the label (currently encompassing The Focus Group, Eric Zann, Belbury Poly, Roj, Pye Corner Audio and The Advisory Circle, and a rerelease of a Mount Vernon Arts Lab album) tend to share a common design aesthetic - all record covers so far have been by Julian House, with an acknowledged debt to the iconic design of sixties Penguin Books paperbacks.

Gitaldaha railway station

Up to the sixties there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Golokganj.

Green-Tinted Sixties Mind

Written by guitarist virtuoso Paul Gilbert, the lyrics concern an old-fashioned girl, living as if she were in the sixties.

Jake Hook

Hook turned his hand at producing with the DoubleH remix of sixties icon Beryl Marsden's single "Baby It's You".

Ken Houghton

He was signed for Hull City A.F.C. early in the 1964–65 season by manager Cliff Britton and became the link between City's defence and the attacking force of the mid to late sixties – Ken Wagstaff, Chris Chilton and Butler.

Killer Karl Kox

As a singles heel through the sixties, he was a top-of-card fixture battling well-established crowd favourites such as Mark Lewin, Spiros Arion, Tex McKenzie, Dominic Denucci and Mario Milano.

King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II

Songs from Johnson's first album had been covered by popular rock artists in the late sixties, including Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin, who based their "Lemon Song" partly on "Traveling Riverside Blues." The Rolling Stones placed a version of "Love In Vain" on their 1969 landmark Let It Bleed before it had been released on LP, having heard the song on a bootleg recording circulating at the time.

Leah Kramer

She is the author of The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts: Fifty Fabulous Projects from the Fifties and Sixties and the founder of Craftster.

Len Ashurst

In the late sixties, alongside Jimmy Montgomery, Cecil Irwin, Martin Harvey, Charlie Hurley and Jim McNab, Ashurst formed one of the most notable and most settled back fives in Sunderland's history.

Luis Bernardo Honwana

We Killed Mangy Dog is a collection of short stories set in the (Portuguese) colonial era at the turn of the sixties and is reflective of the harsh life black Mozambicans lived under the Salazar regime.

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Known for promoting the avant-garde since its inception in the early sixties, the Magnes also launched the REVISIONS series of installations, including such artists as Ann Chamberlain, Naomie Kremer, Larry Abramson, Jonathon Keats, Amy Berk, and Shahrokh Yadegari, as guest-curated by Lawrence Rinder.

Mario Montez

He took his name as a male homage to the actress Maria Montez, an important gay icon in the fifties and sixties.

Mary A. Bell

She was in her sixties before her crayon artwork became known to the general public, thanks to patrons such as author Gertrude Stein, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, publicist Mark Lutz, critic Henry McBride and artist Florine Stettheimer.

Needle in the Groove

The book also traces the history of pop music in Manchester, starting with skiffle in 1957, running through the sixties, before coming to an angry explosion with the punk of 1977 and the Buzzcocks.

Ngwane National Liberatory Congress

Golden Highlanders were sent by the British Army in the early sixties due to pressure of the party’s protest actions in demanding political reforms for an Independent state and class struggle for a minimum wage.

Nicholas Stacey

In 1962 Stacey was a co-founding Chairman of Chesham Amalgamations in London, an innovative mergers and acquisitions company, which played a role in the reorganization of British industry in the Sixties and Seventies.

Paul Bisciglia

During the sixties, Bisciglia began to appear more frequently in television series and television films, although he was included in many films such as The Wretches, with Michèle Morgan, Les vieux de la vieille, with Pierre Fresnay, Paris nous appartient, Le signe du lion, and in 1966, he appeared in his first leading role in Alain Cuniot's L'or et le plomb.

Pornochanchada

It brought to a close a generation of directors, writers and actors associated since the sixties with the Cinema Novo movement, many of whom were involved at one time or another with pornochanchadas.

Private Eye books

In particular, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, the exploits of an uncouth Australian expatriate in Sixties London, written by Barry Humphries and illustrated by Nicholas Garland, was published in three collections, long since out of print and now collectors' items.

Responsive architecture

The term "responsive architecture" was given to us by Nicholas Negroponte, who first conceived of it during the late nineteen sixties when spatial design problems were being explored by applying cybernetics to architecture.

Roberto Gerardi

After having accompanied Giuseppe Rotunno as an additional cinematographer in The Great War (1959), in the early sixties he worked in art films such as Damiano Damiani's Arturo's Island and The Empty Canvas, but also to international co-productions such as Madame Sans-Gene by Christian-Jaque and The Condemned of Altona by Vittorio De Sica.

Saro Vera

Another of his books is "Six stories of a peasant", which prologue was written by Helio Vera, who defines this collection of stories as a mixture of fiction and reality that does not lose its testimonial character, as they are developed in the events by the guerrillas of the sixties, which operated in the area where Saro Vera fulfilled his evangelical mission.

Terry Manning

Manning began in the music industry in the early sixties in El Paso, Texas, where he played guitar with several local bands, and on occasion accompanied his friend Bobby Fuller.

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The film also plays with the ideas of the era where the sixties cultural revolution had swept aside the "certainties" of classical education.

The Education of Everett Richardson

In The Globe and Mail, for example, reviewer Patrick O'Flaherty complained that the book was filled what he termed "the cant of the sixties" including references to "beautiful kids" (at the universities), "walking corpses" (in the suburbs) and "out-door orgasms."

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

Kelvin, freed from his strict Calvinist upbringing through discovering Nietzsche and 'the divine Ingersoll' in the library of his home town of Glaik, travels to swinging-sixties London to succeed as a television interviewer and newspaper columnist through nothing more than his aptitude for spin and a diabolical will to power, only to return, chastened, to Scotland and to God.

The Most Secret Place on Earth

The Most Secret Place on Earth is a 2008 film by German director Marc Eberle, dealing with the secret operation waged by the CIA throughout the sixties and early seventies against communist guerrillas in Laos, particularly in the city of Long Chen.

The Problem of Cell 13

"Cell 13", a 1973 adaptation for the British series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, saw Douglas Wilmer, famous for his portrayal of Holmes in BBC productions of the sixties, play the Professor.

Wendy Barker

Her newest book, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, a novel in prose poems set in Berkeley in the sixties (Del Sol Press, 2009), has been called “unforgettably moving” by Sandra M. Gilbert; “a captivating page-turner” by Alicia Ostriker; and an “exciting tribute to a decade of change” by Denise Duhamel.


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