Canby High School - Lancer Yearbook (Canby, MN)

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Democratic Victor — President Lyndon Johnson won the 1904 election by the greatest plurality and per cent of the total vote in U. S. history. Johnson became President at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Harry's Hattie for Votes—Sen. Barry Gold water was surrounded by fans at Knoxville, Tenn., air- port September 16 as he campaigned for the presidency on the Republican ticket. The con- servative senator swept to a first-ballot nomina- tion at the convention in San Francisco. National Events in Review—1964 Nobel Prize Winner—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., right, was greeted by Richard C. Patterson, commissioner of public events, at Kennedy International Air- port Dec. 16 on arrival from Europe. Dr. King was in Oslo to receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Cards are the Winners— Roger Craig leaped on a group of teammates surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo- ments after the last out in the seventh World Series game won by the Redbirds over the Yankees, 7-5, in St. Louis. I'm the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the world heavyweight title in Miami Beach in February. He was credited with a tech- nical knockout of Sonny Liston when Lis- ton failed to answer the bell for the sev- enth round.