AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Newt Bass, oil millionaire and real estate developer, tells tractor driver Frank Baird where to clear the ground for the new Apple Valley Hospital on...

Newt Bass, oil millionaire and real estate developer, tells tractor driver Frank Baird where to clear the ground for the new Apple Valley Hospital on...

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Simple dressed in slacks and shirt, Eartha Kitt is as vivid off-stage as on as she talks over a glass of milk in her New York apartment. After establ...

Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan ,center, dicusses arrangements with Russian born choreographer, Ica Maximovna, left, and Norberto Mola, right,...

Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan , left, gives instructions for the chorus, during rehearsals for the Bizet's opera

Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan , left, takes part in a playful duel with an epee against an unidentified man, during a break at the rehearsals...

Stunt couple Benny and Betty Fox perform their dizzying balancing act on an 18 inch pedestal extending from the roof of the 159 foot high Gaylor Hotel...

Actress Olivia De Havilland toasts her fianc??, Pierre Galante, with champagne while he in turn proposes a milk toast to his prospective bride at Nino...

Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, uses a diagrammed map at a news conference on Dec. 17, 1954 in Washington where he defend...

Theodore C. Streibert, former chairman of the board of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and new director of the United States Information Agency, which...

This 1955 studio portrait of actress Joan Crawford, shows her with new hair style for the movie

Portrait of Lord Mayor of West-Berlin, West Germany, Dr. Walter Schreiber member of the Christian Democrats (CDU), pictured at his office, November 30...

Burlesque stripper Crystal Starp adjusts a curl as Harold Minsky, Burlesque Producer, talks to members of a class from the new school for social resea...

Back Howard (Hopalong) Cassady of Ohio State leaping between players to score Buckeyes' final touchdown against Michigan from the one-yard line on Nov...

Actress Olivia De Havilland embraces her fianc??, Pierre Galante, Parisian Magazine executive of Paris Match on his arrival by plane on Nov.13, 1954...

A group of Romans gather to watch a small bright object moving slowly across the sky above the Eternal City, Nov. 12, 1954, Rome, Italy. Similar group...

Kenneth D. Nichols, left, Atomic Energy Commission general manager, and Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, discuss a point on Nov.6 1954 in Washington prior...

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss takes the witness chair before the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on Nov. 4, 1954 opened an inqu...

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, right, head of Princeton University's Institute for Advance Science, who earlier this year was denied security clearance by...

Bob Sweeny fires a barrage of sand that includes his ball as he comes out of a trap on the third hole of the Country Club of Detroit course, during hi...

Robert Sweeny, Arnold Palmer and Edward Meister, semi-finalist, on Aug. 27, 1954 in National Ameteur Golf in Detriot. (AP Photo)

Robert Sweeny in National Ameteur at Detroit during quarter finals match, on Aug. 26, 1954.(AP Photo)

This is the main entrance to Samuel Goldwyn Studio in Hollywood, Calif., seen July 31, 1954. United Artists, which is principally a releasing corpora...

The main entrance to Columbia Studio on Gower Street in Hollywood is shown, July 31, 1954. (AP Photo)

A street car named Desire is now a bus names Desire, show on July 27,1954 in Bourbon and St.Peter Street at New Orleans.(AP Photo)

French actress Cecile Aubry and her Italian partner Franco Andrei act in a scene of the West German movie production

French actress Cecile Aubry and her Italian partner Franco Andrei act in a scene of the West German movie production

Richard Burton in the role of Hamlet and Claire Bloom is Ophelia in Old Vic Company presentation of William Shakespeare's

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill responds with the

Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission testifies June 2, 1954 before the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, as open hearings on...

Jack McGrath, in his Hinkle Special, flashes along the long straightaway at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, during the 500-mile classic, May 31, 1954...

Sweeping into the first curve of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are these thirty-three racers running for the big money in the 38th 500-mile race, Ma...

Troy Ruttman, right, in the Auto Shippers Special, is headed in the wrong direction on the Indianapolis Speedway as he spins out of control on the nor...

Sen. Stuart Symington , D-Mo., left, after being taken to task by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for not listening to him and Robert Kennedy, counsel for the...

Sen. Stuart Symington , D-Mo., left, after being taken to task by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for not listening to him and Robert Kennedy, counsel for the...

The British royal family waves to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on May 15,1954 at London. This is one of the formal appearances of...

J. Allen Hynek, Prof. of Astronomy at Ohio State University, shown, May 3, 1954, New York. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)

Arnold Palmer, Wake Forest, drives from the first tee in opening round of 17th Southern Intercollegiate golf tournament at Athens, Ga., April 29, 195...

The Anti-Colonial People's United Party won eight of the nine seats contested in the first General Election held in British Honduras, April 28, 1954....

Former KGB officer Nikolai Khokhlov displays photographs of his wife and child at a press conference in Bonn. Apr. 22, 1954. (AP Photo)

Image shows a fake cigarette case which was surrendered by former KGB officer Nikolai Khokhlov. The case is in fact a weapon which fires bullets conta...

Image shows an example of a miniature pistol used by MVD officers. Apr. 22, 1954. (AP Photo)

West German movie director Wolfgang Liebeneier, left, clinks glasses with actor Karlheinz Boehm and actress Ulla Jacobson during a press conference an...

Premier Fazollah Zahedi of Persia, right, shakes hands with Orville Harden, leader of the international oil consortium as the oil men meet the premier...

Enos Slaughter, veteran outfielder, weeps on April 11, 1954 in St. Louis after learning he was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the New York Yanke...

Greek actress Irene Papas, sits on a wall at the harbor of Cannes, France, where she enjoys a solitary lunch, visiting the 7th International Film Fest...

French actress Cecile Aubry enters terribly delayed for a TV interview with some of her water color paintings tucked under her arm at the NWDR studio...

Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp offers pills, stimulants and sedatives to the new football coach Blanton Collier on March 15, 1954 in Lexington,...

A bit of old Eire is the motif as Cathy Stanley, 17, of 3713 Hudson Boulevard, Union City, N.Y.holds shillelagh after being crowned Shillelagh Queen i...