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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 14. 1960
JOHN F. KENNEDY-MAN OF THE YEAR AND TOP NEWSMAKER,
Kennedy Selected Man of the Year
By Bill Blundell
Many great and powerful personalities held the center of the world stage in 1960. But of all of them, only one captured the public imagination and extended the promise of a new era. He is John F. Kennedy, Man of the Year.
President-elect Kennedy was chosen because he brings new leadership to the most important office in the world, because on his policies hangs the fate of free nations everywhere, and because he polarized the emotions of millions of Americans during his campaign and in his historic debates with Vice President Nixon.
Pressing Kennedy for the top honor is Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the United Nations. The soft-spoken Swedish diplomat is chosen for his courageous defense of the UN secretariat in reply to the assault by Nikita Khrushchev.
Ranking close behind Hammarskjold is his UN adversary, Nikita Khrushchev. Premier Khrushchev is chosen for his dramatic annihilation of the Summit talks in Paris, his subsequent invitation to Red leaders from every corner of the globe to attend the opening session of the UN, and his table-thumping and propagandizing in the General Assembly. His spat with Mao Tse-tung over Communist doctrine also kept him in the news.
Close behind Khrushchev is his bearded ally, Fidel Castro. The Cuban Premier expropriated virtually all American property on the island during the past year, denounced American policies, crushed incipient insurrections ruthlessly, and lined Cuba up behind the Soviet Union in the UN. His role as a disruptive force in the Caribbean makes him a front-runner in this competition.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, beset with difficulties in the waning days of his administration, ranks fifth. His historic trips to Asia and South America, marred by the cancellation of his scheduled visit to Japan, were milestone in the new technique of personal diplomacy. His swift moves to alleviate the gold shortage and his speech at the UN were other highlights.
Mao Tse-tung, premier of Red China who has led a fanatical Hate-America campaign and is driving his people into communes to achieve the goals of his "Great Leap Forward," is ranked sixth. The Chinese leader made news for his squabbles with the Kremlin over alleged "revisionism" by Russian Communists and his endorsement of a militant Communist policy which welcomes atomic war.
Francis Powers, ill-fated U-2 pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union, captured, and sentenced for spying, is a tragic figure in seventh place. The tremendous impact of his capture and trial, and the disclosure of U.S. intelligence methods that penetrated the USSR repeatedly without penalty, grabbed headlines for weeks.
Charles de Gaulle, austere leader of France and father of the Fifth Republic, ranks eighth. Struggling against problems at home and in strife-torn Algeria, De Gaulle gave France its first atomic bomb and is trying to build a nuclear striking force independent of NATO.
Two Africans round out the list of the ten Men of the Year. In ninth place is Kwame Nkrumah, premier of Ghana and perhaps the most influential man in black Africa. His activities in behalf of African nationalism were not often in the news, but his mark was on many of the developments in the Dark Continent this past year.
In 10th place is Patrice Lumumba, whose meteoric rise and fall in the Congo paralleled the fortunes of that rich and undeveloped nation. His rise to power, his struggle with Joseph Kasavubu, and his eventual defeat and disgrace by Col. Mobutu were news during the entire last part of the year.
Other candidates for Man of the Year were, in order of their finish:
Richard Nixon, Jawaharlal Nehru, Harold Macmillan, Konrad Adenauer, Martin Luther King, Joseph Kasavubu, Pope John XXIII, Henry Cabot Lodge, Nelson Rockefeller, Adolph Eichmann and Ralph Bunche. These last two tied for 20th place.
Election Race Top Story
By John Peterson
John F. Kennedy's victorious battle to become the 34th President of the United States is the top news story of 1960.
The running story of the presidential race barely edged out the dramatic developments of the U-2 spy plane downed in Russia, the propaganda blasts by the Russians that followed, and the eventual trial of pilot Francis Powers.
The struggle for civil rights in the South — the sit-in demonstrations, the desegregation of schools in New Orleans, the record filibuster in the Senate before new civil rights legislation was passed — was voted third.
News stories of international importance were in abundance during 1960, and many stories which in ordinary years would have been in the top two or three were relegated to a much lower position in the top 20.
Such was the case with Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to dominate the United Nations by calling a "Red Summit" in New York. This story was picked fourth in importance. The precedent which was set by the many chiefs of state attending the United Nations and the crises in the UN which Khrushchev caused made the story one of great significance.
Castro and a Communist Cuba ranked fifth and the violence in the
Top 20 News Stories
1. Kennedy Wins Presidency
4. Khrushchev and Cohorts at UN in New York
1. Kennedy Wins Presidency
2. U-2 Plane Downed in Russia
3. Civil Rights Struggle in South
5. Casiro, Communists and Cuba
6. The Congo Unrest
6. The Congo Unrest
7. Space Race
8. Japanese Riots Cancel Ike's Trip
9. Khrushchev Erupts Paris Summit
10. Caryl Chessman Executed
11. Missile Race
12. Ice's S. American and S. Asia Trip
13. Russo-Sino Ideological Dispute
14. The Gold Rush and U.S. Finances
15. Israel's Capture of Eichmann
16. Hurricane Donna
17. Algerian Revolts
18. RB47 Down in Neutral Territory
19. GAS and Latin America
20. Princess Margaret Marries
Congo was selected sixth. Both of these nations, small as they are in international stature, have held top headlines throughout the world for the past few months.
The race for space, including such advancements as U.S. weather satellites, Echo I and II communications satellites, and the Russians' successful orbit and recovery of dogs and mice, ranked seventh.
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Rounding out the top 10 was the Caryl Chessman execution. After 11 years and eight months of stays through judicial orders, Chessman finally came to the end of the rope. A great outcry against capital punishment followed his announced execution, and added impact to the news which surrounded his last hours on earth.
In the second ten are listed such stories as the Russian-Chinese dispute over the ideological policy of the Communist bloc, the U.S. financial situation and the Gold Rush, the Missile race and Israel's capture of Adolf Eichmann. Many of these stories are still breaking with new developments nearly every day.
Hurricane Donna, the worst in Weather Bureau history, was the only disaster to make the top 20. The marriage of Princess Margaret to commoner Anthony Armstrong-Jones added a human interest touch to the big stories.
Elvis' Return Feeds Rock 'n' Roll Craze
Two internationally important stories in the continuing Cold War — the Japanese riots against the U.S.-Japanese peace treaty which canceled President Eisenhower's intended Japanese visit and Nikita Khrushchev's torpedoing of the Paris Summit — pointed up the differences between East and West power blocs.
1960 Fads, Fashions Zany
By Carol Heller
What makes one year different from another? What will make us remember 1960? It is mainly the crazy fads in fashions and entertainment.
KU men will always remember 1960 as the year the hemlines crept up above the knees. And women will always grimace when they remember the flashy purples the men wore.
FOR TEENAGERS 1960 was gleeful because rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley said good-bye to his rich uncle and brought his hound-dog voice and wiggles back home. (They got so excited they invented new dances called the "twist" and the "shimmy.")
University of Kansas student newspaper Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904, triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
The women looked vivacious in 1960. Their skins glowed golden with Man-Tan, and their eyes sparkled from beneath green and blue lashes framed by slanted eyebrows and iridescent-shadowed eyelids. (The near-sighted women even changed the color of their eyes with tinted contact lenses. They wore pointed-toe shoes and velvet tunics and bikinis and kulots and bermuda shorts and short pleated skirts. They let their hair down to put it up.
The men looked neat, too. They carried on the Continental look. The Kansas men groomed crisp little beards and goatoes for the centennial. They gave up smoking tobacco for puffing on filters.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
THE NATION WAS surprised and indignant when Eddie Fisher divorced Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor. It was crushed when Marilyn Monroe broke up with Arthur Miller.
We didn't have a cranberry scare in 1960, but we did have a hotdog scare. The rumor was out that the red food coloring in hotdogs was dangerous. But like cranberry lovers, the hotdog lovers ignored the warning and went right on stuff-the warning and went right on stuffing themselves with mustard-smeared hotdogs.
WE HAD A LIPSTICK scare, too.
But after going about pale-lipped awhile, the women soon flashed crimson smiles again...evidently they preferred taking chances on cancer to Mona Lisa smiles.
Probably the only fad that didn't catch on in 1960 was a West Coast drive-in theater's attempt to establish roving cops among the automobile audience. That didn't go over at all.
Little kids demolished their little red wagons and bride dolls for toy ballistic missiles and dolls dressed in dungarees, sweatshirts and black leather jackets. (Incidentally, the dolls blew bubbles if you punched their tummies.)
Books of the Year
By Frank Morgan
In many ways, 1960 might be considered a bad year for writing. There was no major novel that broke the grip on the best-seller list held for 15 months by "Advise and Consent" and "Hawaii." On the other hand, the year did find several significant contributions to history, art and entertainment.
In the non-fiction category, such books as Vance Packard's "The Waste Makers," "I Kid You Not" by Jack Paar, "The Liberal Hour" by Harvard economist John K. Galbraith, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" by self-styled lover Erver Flynn and "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., made their splash on the bestseller list but will hardly be remembered as great writing.
In the fiction section, such contributions as "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Dean's Watch," "The Listener," "Diamond Head" and "Where the Boys Are" made a comparable appearance.
In selecting the top writing of the year in either category, the lack of great books or monumental writing bunches all the selections together in somewhat of a photo-finish.
In non-fiction, military or war novels had the greatest impact. The number one book is William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."
As related by the CBS correspondent who witnessed it all, the book tells in documentary fashion the buildup and demise of Hitler's regime. Its style and documented
authenticity give the reader the feeling that "you are there."
"The Leopard" by Lampedusa takes first place in the fiction category.
Otten compared to Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago," "The Leopard" is about the patriarch of a Sicilian family at the turn of the century whose power and domination of his family, estate and state government is being usurped by the tide of progress. It is a poignant commentary on the metamorphosis of a great man into one who becomes merely a spectator at events he helped to shape.
A listing of best books in the fiction class must include John Hersey's "The Child Buyer." "The Last Temptation of Christ" by Kazantakis, and William Styron's "Set This House on Fire." All three give "The Leopard" a close race for first place.
In non-fiction, "How I Made $2 Million on the Stock Market" by Darvas, was high on all lists for the major portion of the year. Arthur Schlesinger's third book in the series on "The Age of Roosevelt," entitled "The Politics of Upheaval," was eagerly awaited and sold. "Taken at the Flood" by John Gunther dealt with the life and ideas of Albert Lasker.
Others in the top 10 were;
"Thomas Wolfe" by Nowell, "Arthritis and Folk Medicine" by Jarvis, "The Good Years" by Lord, "Victory in the Pacific" by historian Samuel Eliot Morison, "Grant Moves South" by Bruce Catton and the "War Memoirs of De Gaulle."