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 ).

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 rode on a 120-inch wheelbase, compared to the concurrent Ford's 119-inch span, and it also used a different rear suspension.

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

In some newspaper markets, dealers scrambled to renegotiate newspaper advertising contracts involving the 1960 Edsel models, while others dropped the name from their dealerships ' advertising " slugs.

The Edsel division was discontinued soon after the 1960 models were introduced.

It was reassigned to Mercury dealerships after the demise of the Edsel brand, where it was marketed as a standalone product for 1960 and 1961 as the Comet.

Keys for the 1960 and 1961 Comets were shaped like Edsel keys, with the center bar of the " E " removed to form a " C ".

* Edsel ( all models ), 1958 – 1960

It was discontinued in 1960 ; a great failure for Philco, like the Edsel automobile was for Ford, which coincidentally ran exactly the same model years.

Two years later, after also having completed Ranger School, Beckwith joined Special Forces, and in 1960 was deployed to South Vietnam and Laos as a military advisor.

* August 1 – Francis Gary Powers – the American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 and held captive there until 1962 – dies when the KNBC television news Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter he is piloting runs out of fuel and crashes in the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area in Los Angeles, California.

Her other television appearances included two appearances on the Perry Mason episodes, " The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde ," ( 1958 ) and " The Case of the Cowardly Lion " ( 1961 ), The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( twice as June Sanders ), It's a Great Life, Frontier, The Abbott and Costello Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( as Penny in the 1960 episode " The Trench Coat ", along with David Niven and Lyle Talbot ), Leave It to Beaver, Gunsmoke ( as a duplicitous villainess trying to have her husband murdered ), Rawhide ( Season 1 / 20 as Nora Sage ), General Electric Theater, The Lone Ranger, The Untouchables ( in Season 1 as a two-timing showgirl playing opposite Cameron Mitchell ), and The Patty Duke Show.

This unit was redesignated 24 November 1952 as Company A, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion, in inactive status and was consolidated on 15 April 1960 with the 1st Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, and the consolidated unit was redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.

This sparked a long-term controversy over the creation of The Lone Ranger, extending as far as a 1960 television appearance by Striker on To Tell the Truth, which mentioned his role in the character's creation.

Rambler offered a four-door of this body style in 1956, followed by Mercury, Oldsmobile, and Buick in 1957 ; Chrysler entered the market in 1960.

The 1960 Corvair 500 and 700 series four-door sedans were conceived as economy cars offering few amenities in order to keep the price competitive, with the 500 ( base model ) selling for under $ 2, 000.

A standard 4-window four-door hardtop was also available, as was a 4-door 6-window pillared sedan, along with a stripped chassis of which 144 were built in 1959 and 1960.

Despite the smaller exterior dimensions, at, the new sedan was only lighter than the lightest 1960 Lincoln four-door sedan ( 2 lb less than a two-door ); at, the convertible outweighed its 1960 predecessor by.

It contained the convertible, which had previously been a Crown, and the first four-door pillared Imperial sedan since 1960.

Initially, each of the Y-body compacts from Buick, Olds and Pontiac were only offered as four-door sedans and station wagons when introduced in the fall of 1960 as 1961 models.

The lineup grew for 1960, when the company issued a convertible ( Studebaker's first since 1952 ) and a four-door station wagon.

The only model that was deleted from the 1962 lineup was the Deluxe series two-door wagon, which had slipped in popularity since the four-door wagon's debut in 1960.

The Scotsman was replaced for the 1960 model year by the Studebaker Champ pickup, which was based on the truck chassis with a cab derived from the contemporary Lark four-door sedan.

In its final year in the U. S., the 1960 Chrysler Saratoga was based wholly on the New Yorker body shell, less New Yorker trimmings, and again offered in three body styles – four-door sedan, four-door hardtop, and two-door hardtop coupe.

Among the cars Ward drives are a 1957 Model Year Ford Fairlane, a 1959, 1960, and 1963 Plymouth Fury, all of them four-door sedans.

With the cancellation of the four-door Eldorado Brougham at the end of 1960, the 1961 Sixty Special now became the sedan companion to the Eldorado convertible.

Offered only as a four-door sedan and only with a V8 engine, it was given a mild makeover in late 1960 which included the grille design from the 1959 Canadian Meteor.

1960 Ford Fairlane 500 four-door sedan

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.

Mercury produced a two-door hardtop ( no " B-pillar ") station wagon from 1957 to 1960, named the Commuter.

For 1960, the Thunderbird was given another new grille and other minor stylistic changes along with a newly optional manually operated sunroof for hardtop models.

1960 Buick Electra 225 4-window hardtop

A BT7 3000 with hardtop and overdrive tested by The Motor magazine in 1960 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0 – in 11. 7 seconds.

A Series II with hardtop and overdrive was tested by The Motor magazine in 1960, which recorded a top speed of, acceleration from 0 – in 13. 6 seconds and a fuel consumption of.

1960 Park Lanes were available as a two door hardtop, four door hardtop or convertible.

Starting in 1960, an Invicta Custom trim package was offered, featuring bucket seats and a ' consolette ' in the hardtop coupe, convertible and wagon and a leather bench seat with a center armrest on some 4 door hardtops.

From that year until 1960, the Colony Park was a pillarless hardtop model, then switched to pillared styling for 1961.

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

* Gia Carangi ( 1960 – 1986 ), model

Gia Marie Carangi ( January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986 ) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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

* 1960 – Corynne Charby, French model, actress, and singer

* 1960 – Kim Alexis, American model and actress

There are four main media influence theories: hypodermic needle model ( 1930s behaviorism ), two-step flow model ( Katz and Lazarsfeld, 1955 ), limited effects ( Klapper, 1960 ), and the spiral of silence ( Noelle-Neumann, 1984 ).

The 1959 body style was continued through the 1960 model year, but the fins were toned down for 1960 and the taillights were moved to the bottom of the fenders.

Chrysler began building cars with EL panel lighting for the 1960 model year.

In fact, Bar-Hillel ( 1960 ) used the above example to argue that WSD could not be solved by " electronic computer " because of the need in general to model all world knowledge.

In 1960, the production of new model PAZ-652 started.

* Julianne Phillips ( 1960 – ), model, actress, former wife of Bruce Springsteen, co-star of 1990s TV series Sisters

RuPaul Andre Charles ( born November 17, 1960 ), best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model, author, and recording artist, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums.

High technology in Malibu: the first working model of a laser was demonstrated by Dr. Theodore Maiman in 1960 in Malibu at then Hughes Research Laboratory ( now known as HRL Laboratories LLC ).

Willingboro land was purchased and developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a planned community by Abraham Levitt and Sons in the Levittown model, with the 1950 population of 852 exploding to 11, 861 in 1960 and 43, 386 in 1970.

Subsequently, he began marketing model rocket kits in 1960, and eventually, Estes dominated the market.

Renault debuted its flagship model, the largely conventional 2-litre 4-cylinder Renault Frégate ( 1951 – 1960 ), shortly thereafter.

Melroe introduced the four-wheeled M400 model " Skid-Steer Loader " in 1960, and began using " Bobcat " as a trade name for such products in 1962, on the 440-model loader.

A letter to shareholders in 1959 claimed that the introduction of new compact cars by AMC's large domestic competitors ( for the 1960 model year ) " signals the end of big-car domination in the U. S ." and that AMC predicts small-car sales in the U. S. may reach 3 million units by 1963.

For the 1960 model year, Edsel's last, only 2, 846 vehicles were produced.