Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathetic country doctor from this side of the water. The direction is brisk, the screenplay properly ominous, and some one has written a remarkably lively musical score, which is performed on what sounds like a bar-room harpsichord. One trusts that Miss Rutherford's long deferred American fame will now at length, be firmly secured...
...enjoys many advantages. Volkswagen, for instance, has found that the U.S. makes the best "deep draw steel'' (used for shaped components such as car roofs and fenders), last year bought 10% of all its sheet steel from the U.S. And regardless of Germany's fame as a fine toolmaker, Volkswagen in 1961 bought $2.8 million worth of U.S.-made presses, gear cutters and other highly specialized machines...
...Soichiro Honda, 55 (TIME, Aug. 25), a former auto mechanic whose precision-built Honda motorcycle has won world fame as the hottest thing on two wheels...
Known as one of the leading tacticians in American football and a member of football's Hall of Fame, Harlow compiled a record of 45-39-7 in his 13-year tenure, the longest of any Harvard football coach. He resigned in January, 1943 because of ill health and was succeeded by Lloyd Jordan...
Died. William Hard Sr., 83, longtime (since 1940) roving editor of the Reader's Digest, a onetime Chicago settlement-house director who became one of U.S. journalism's first and most effective muckrakers, won fame for his crusades for social reform in articles for the Nation, New Republic and Saturday Evening Post...