Downtown Manhattan Heliport opened on December 8, 1960, supplementing the existing heliport at West 30th Street which opened in 1956.

On 30th June 1960, the country's first day as an independent nation, Baudouin I of Belgium, the King of the Belgians, arrived for the formal handover of power.

When baseball owners approved the addition of the Los Angeles Angels during their meeting in October 1960, he was selected by the new franchise in the expansion draft as the 30th and last pick.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.

He was reelected by the National Assembly as president four times — doing so in 1954, 1960, 1966, and 1972.

In 1960, the country was in a very unstable state — regional tribal leaders held far more power than the central government — and with the departure of the Belgian administrators, there were almost no skilled bureaucrats left in the country.

* 1976: Another Book ( 1960 onward — never completed beyond outline )

Compared to other " visions of the future ," Bel Geddes ' was rather achievable — the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on radio on ABC ( which aired it from 1947 – 49 ), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman ; and then on CBS ( 1949 – 50 ), and finally NBC, continuing until May 1961 — on radio only, 1947 – 1950 ; on both radio and television, 1950 – 1960 ; and on television only, 1960-1961.

About 1, 500 hectares of government-owned land were distributed by the National Agrarian Institute ( Instituto Nacional Agrario — INA ) beginning in 1960.

* 1960 — Leonard Carmichael ( Secretary, Smithsonian Institution )

* 1960 – 1977 Jeep Rural — Brazil

The idea of the Neoproterozoic Era came on the scene relatively recently — after about 1960.

* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

For the first several decades of television broadcasting, sets displayed images with a 4: 3 aspect ratio in which the width is 1. 33 times the height — similar to most theatrical films prior to 1960.

Two radio stations — KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles — adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so.

* 1960: Best Direction of a Play — Sweet Bird of Youth

* 1960: Golden Bear — Wild River

* Bartel, Walter: Buchenwald — Mahnung und Verpflichtung: Dokumente und Berichte ( Buchenwald: Warnings and our obligation future generations — Documents and reports ), Kongress-Verlag, 1960

Between 1950 and 1960, about 100, 000 white property owners moved out of Oakland — part of a nationwide phenomenon called white flight.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

* A Woman a Day ( also " Moth and Rust " and " The Day of Timestop ") by Philip Jose Farmer ( 1953 novella, expanded to full length 1960, same universe as " The Lovers ")

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and Elizabeth not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members who do hold titles, such as Charles and Anne.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York ( Andrew Albert Christian Edward ; born 19 February 1960 ), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Andrew was born in the Belgian Suite of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

In 1960, American physicist Philip Morrison and Italian physicist Giuseppe Cocconi proposed that extraterrestrial civilizations might be using radio signals for communication.

Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of some of the descendants of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh under an ambiguously-worded Order in Council issued in 1960, and as such a cadet branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( known as the House of Glücksburg for short ), which in turn is a branch of the House of Oldenburg.

Mighty Spoiler, born Theophilus Philip ( 23 March 1926 – 24 December 1960 ) was a Trinidadian calypsonian.

* Philip Marlowe, ABC Television series, 6 October 1959 to 29 March 1960 ( Philip Carey as Marlowe )

: Rieff, Philip ( 11 September 1960 ).

Buttons with the symbol were imported into the United States in 1960 by Philip Altbach, a freshman at the University of Chicago.

James Philip " Jamie " Rubin ( born 1960 in New York City ) is a former diplomat and journalist.

* Philip Hubble ( born 1960 ), British swimmer

In 1960, he played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.

He also starred in the TV adaptations of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story ( 1959 ), Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion ( 1960 ), Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered ( playing the role of Prince Albert originated by Richard Burton on Broadway ), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1962 ).

Philip died in 1958 and Raymond in 1960.

* Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ( 1960 – 1977 )

However, by Letters Patent of 8 February 1960, Queen Elizabeth II declared that her children with Prince Philip would belong to the House of Windsor, as would any agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness, and the title of Prince or Princess.

* Philip Marlowe ( 1959 – 1960 )

* Action This Day, Philip Vian, 1960

In 1960, a SANE rally was held at Madison Square Garden that attracted 20, 000 to hear Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Cousins, Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, and Harry Belafonte call for an end to the arms race.