Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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1964 1965 ment), n. [OF. governer, fr. L. gubernare to steer.] 1. Poll-tax Amendment added to the US Constitution. 2. US tax cut went into effect. 3. Warren Report established Lee Harvey Oswald as assassin of President Kennedy. 4. Civil Rights Act passed. 5. China exploded atomic bombs. 6. New dollar bills changed from Silver Certificates to Federal Reserve Notes and Kennedy fifty-cent piece issued. 7. Bobby Baker case droned onward without conclusion. 8. Khrushchev ousted. LITERATURE (llt' er a tur), n. [F. litterature writing.] 1. Year of Shakespeare’s Quadri-centennial. 2. Jean-Paul Satre refused Nobel Prize for Literature. 3. T. S. Eliot died. 4. First year Salinger didn’t write a novel. 5. “Profiles in Courage” by JFK made best seller list. 6. Ian Fleming died. 7. 272,000,000 paper back books sold in US. MUSIC (mu' zik), n. [OF. mu-sique.] 1. “Hello Dolly” proclaimed greatest musical of all times. 2. “My Fair Lady” became movie. 3. “Don Giovani,” “Lucia de Lammermoor” came to Twin Cities. 4. Dave Clark Five competed with Beatles in popular music. 5. Novas popularized “The Crusher.” 6. Plans materialized for St. Paul Opera Company. 7. “Shindig,” “Hula- baloo” popular with teenage TV audiences. PEOPLE (peV0, [OF. peuple.] 1. Martin Luther King accepted Nobel Prize for Peace. 2. Herbert Hoover, Douglas McArthur died. 3. Jack Ruby found guilty of Oswald murder. 4. Prime Minister Nehru of India died. 5. Pope Paul flew to India —first flying Pope. 6. Winston Churchill died. 7. Mr. Scanlan went to Yale on John Hay Fellowship. 8. Snoopy fell in love. f-f. V. • POLITICS (pol T tTkz), n. [F. politique.] 1. Johnson elected President by largest majority ever. 2. Dean Burch resigned as chairman of Republican Party. 3. Harold Wilson elected as British Prime Minister. 4. Rol-vaag appointed Walter Mondale as Senator. 5. Hubert Humphrey became first Vice-President from Minnesota. SCIENCE (sirens), n. [OF., fr. L. scientia.] 1. Mariner II took close-up pictures of earth for better determination of age. 2. US became first to shoot towards Mars. 3. Isolated element 104 discovered. SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC-EXPIALIDOCIOUS. A word to use when you don’t know what else to say.