Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Died. Harry Ferguson, 75. industrial visionary and inventor who made millions on a handshake agreement with a friend named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford...
...chief of the Soviet Rocket Command; in a plane crash while on an undisclosed mission. A much-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, a deputy Defense Minister and alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Nedelin defended Moscow's western front during the German attack of 1941, later in the war shifted to the Ukraine (where he first gained favor with Khrushchev) and rose swiftly but anonymously through the ranks of artillerymen until Khrushchev casually revealed his top spot last May, after Russian rockets allegedly hit their biggest target: the U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers. Hailed...
Kennedy sounded one new note before a crowd of 50,000 on New Haven's Green where, in a sharp ridiculing attack on Nixon's defense of the state of the Americon economy, foreign prestige and military preparedness, he suggested that the vice-President would be a prisoner of his own statements if he did try to provide any leadership in these fields as President...
...freshman football team unveiled a newly-acquired serial attack Saturday as they overpowered Princeton, 20-3. The Yardlings completed 10 out of 15 pass attempts while exhibiting outstanding line strength to stall the Tiger attack throughout the game...
...spotty tackling could not stop the powerful Tiger running attack. Princeton scored twice on the ground and gained its final two points with a fourth-period safety...