The EK of 1960 was Holden's response to the Ford Falcon ( Australia ) | Ford Falcon, with the availability of automatic transmission.

* 1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut

* 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post.

* 1960 – Curt Ford, American baseball player

In 1961 Ford introduced the FE 390 in a low drag Galaxie " Starliner ", but 1960 and ' 61 championships were won by drivers in 409-powered Chevrolet Impalas.

In 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois.

In 1960, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines with Ford and Rockefeller Foundations established IRRI ( International Rice Research Institute ).

The 1960 models saw a complete reskinning, which removed the tailfins and the distinctive split grille ( which Ford copied on the final Edsel models for 1960 ).

On November 9, 1960, McNamara became the first president of Ford from outside the Ford family.

That year the U. S. District Judge Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr., based in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish, personally registered some two dozen African-American citizens under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

* Jesse Frank Ford, a nutritionist, began Arrowhead Mills, a health-food company in Hereford in 1960.

GM eliminated the hardtop wagon from its lineup in 1959, and AMC and Ford exited the field beginning with their 1960 and 1961 vehicles, leaving Chrysler and Dodge with the body style through the 1964 model year.

It remained in use through 1960 on several models offered by Ford.

The car's commercial success has subsequently been overshadowed by the even greater sales achieved by the Cortina: in 1960, when 191, 752 Anglias left Ford's Dagenham plant in the 105E's first full production year, it set a new production-volume record for the Ford Motor Company.

The Edsel is an automobile that was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years.

The Edsel shared a basic chassis, glass, and major sheet metal with the 1960 Ford Galaxie and Fairlane models that were built on the Louisville assembly line with it.

The 1960 Edsel Ranger four-door hardtop model used the thin-pillar Ford Fairlane four-door sedan roofline, as opposed to the " square " roofline used on the corresponding Ford four-door hardtop, which was exclusive to the Galaxie line.

This gave the Edsel four-door hardtop a unique body style that was never offered on any 1960 Ford.

" Ford issued a statement that it would distribute coupons to customers who purchased 1960 models ( and carryover 1959 models ) prior to the announcement, valued at $ 300 to $ 400 toward the purchase of new Ford products to offset the decreased values.

The first memorials at Old Trafford to the lost players and staff were unveiled on 25 February 1960.

The clock was unveiled on 25 February 1960 by Dan Marsden, the chairman of the Ground Committee.

A blue plaque unveiled in 1960 commemorates Allenby at 24 Wetherby Gardens, South Kensington, London.

Preliminary architectural plans were unveiled in November 1960, and the following month a site was chosen west of the Elmhurst district of East Oakland alongside the then-recently completed Nimitz Freeway.

First unveiled publicly in an early episode of Playboy's Penthouse, it made its formal debut at the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago on the evening of February 29, 1960.

The Labour party were further weakened by internal disputes, but the Conservatives ' economic policies unveiled in the 1960 Budget proved damaging.

On 1 October 1960 the Mayor of Ryde, Alderman ELS Hall, unveiled a drinking fountain and plaque in the reserve outside the shopping centre, commemorating the successful development of 500 home sites and the construction of 250 modern homes on the Dress Circle Estate.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

The Industrial Division published, in 1960, a new, attractive industrial brochure, `` Rhode Island -- Right For Industry '', and prepared copy for a new edition of the Directory Of Manufacturers ( to be printed shortly ), and for a new space catalogue.

On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

Trouble-free, long-life, quality components will play an increasingly important part in the merchandising of new housing in 1960 '', Pantas predicted.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

A subsequent U. S. trade embargo, instituted in October 1960 in response to Cuba's seizure of U. S .- owned properties, not only ensured that new vehicle exports would remain halted, but also denied Cuban motorists a direct source of replacement parts.

After the first episode in 1960, the Daily Mirror printed: " The programme is doomed from the outset ... For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week.

On 8 – 9 July 1960, the soldiers were invited to appoint black officers, and ' command of the army passed securely into the hands of former sergeants ,' as the soldiers in general chose the most-educated and highest-ranked Congolese army soldiers as their new officers.

The American philosopher Arthur Oncken Lovejoy in his * The Revolt Against Dualism ( 1960 ) develops a critique of the modern new realism, reproposing a form of dualism based on a " fork of human experience.

Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.

Exploiting La Dolce Vita ’ s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent.

HBOG expanded during the 1940s and 50's, and in 1960 began shipping Canadian crude to Billings, Montana, refinery through a new link to Glacier pipeline.

In 1960, Holden introduced its third major new model, the FB.

However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh CGPM defined the metre in the new International System of Units ( SI ) as equal to 1, 650, 763. 73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.

Upon league approval, the team moved to Minnesota after the 1960 season, setting up shop in Metropolitan Stadium, while Washington fielded a brand new " Washington Senators " ( which later became the Texas Rangers prior to the 1972 season ).

After buying the team in 1960, owner Charles O. Finley introduced new road uniforms with " Kansas City " printed on them, as well as an interlocking " KC " on the cap.