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Kennedy Victory Tops 1960 News Editors Poll
The AP editors pick Kennedy's victory over Nixon as the No. 1 story of 1960. Other top items include the U-2 incident and Powers, the Paris Summit collapse, Congo independence chaos, New York airliner disaster, Castro’s Cuban moves, Khrushchev at the UN, Eisenhower's Japan trip cancelation, and landmark sit-ins in the South.
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John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Ni
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Francis G. Powers
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Fidel Castro
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