NetQuantum :: Society :: History :: By_Time_Period :: Twentieth_Century :: 1950s ::

• Portugal inmates are serving time and ... wine
The wine-making project started in the 1950s as a form of hard labor for prisoners, but has turned over the years into a reward for inmates showing good behavior, giving them flexible rules and a sense of freedom. “The main goal is always to help ...
• Oscar broadcast will now allow movie ads
... telecast for the first time starting with the Feb. 22 ceremony on ABC, academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said Wednesday. The vote Tuesday night lifts a ban on movie advertising that had been in place since the Oscars hit the airwaves in the early 1950s
• Diddy's vodka ad sees good times — at home
MILWAUKEE - Celebrating in the new economy could mean more time at home and less time in the bars, Sean "Diddy" Combs says. The entertainment mogul's new ad for his superpremium vodka Ciroc is a throwback to the 1950s, featuring Combs and his friends ...
• Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95
During the 1950s and 60s, Palade took advantage of new techniques to understand the cell structure, its function and chemistry. Using those techniques, he identified the function of, among other things, mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, and ...
• Google founder visits Russian cosmodrome
In jeans and a black fleece, Brin looked relaxed as he toured, along with other U.S. visitors, the world's oldest space launch facility which was originally set up in the 1950s as a clandestine missile test facility. Garriott, who paid $35 million for ...