Alamo successfully defended 
its North Missouri Basketball championship title in January of 1960 (it's hard to make out the date - so I hope that's correct) by defeating Wildrose 47 to 32. See "On the Bench" editorial that describes the conditions that favored Alamo's 'deliberate' style.Other big new events in 1960 include:
- January 2nd: U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. See Youtube video of NBC news item of an interview recorded with JFK on January 5th
- February 9th: Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead and Joseph Corbett, Jr. is indicted.
- Theodore Harold Maiman developed and patented the world's first laser, and demonstrated its operation in May at the Hughes Research Laboritories in Malibu, California, using a synthetic ruby crystal grown by Dr. Ralph L. Hutcheson.
- The top selling single for the year was "Cathy's Clown" by the Everly Brothers (See Youtube video recorded in 1965) followed at No. 2 by "Please Don't Tease" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows (See Youtube video). I don't know what this says about musical evolution, but it must have been hot stuff at the time.
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