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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...
Died. Gerald L. Phillippe, 59, president (1961-63) and board chairman (1963-68) of General Electric Co.; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. As G.E.'s comptroller in the 1950s, Phillippe cut costs to cope with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...
...with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern of a handful of historians. Their efforts and ideas form the background of this book by Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter. The Progressive Historians tells the story of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington-who did the most to shape America's image of its history as a tapestry of continued progress. Part biography, part intellectual history, part scholarly polemic, the volume is a sharp but generous inquiry into the underlying conceptions of American history and the reasons for writing it. Hofstadter...
...American history-in 1893. Charles Beard created his most influential and controversial book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, in 1913. He had completed his most popular history. The Rise of American Civilization, by 1927, the year when an unknown English professor named V. L. Parrington published his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Main Currents in American Thought. These men, writes Hofstadter, were the first "to make American history relevant to the political and intellectual issues of the moment." And, he might have added, the issues of the moment endured...
...Robert L. Hall '69 admitted that the problems faced by the course were basically due to the rush involved in setting it up. Still, Hall said, the Ad Hoc Committee had been left with the understanding that guest lecturers would be permitted to give some of the lectures...