Mora High School - Mustang Yearbook (Mora, MN)

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Democratic Victor — Pres idem won the 1964 election by the and per cent of the total vot Johnson became President at John F. Kennedy in 1963. Barry's Battle for Votes—S was surrounded by fans at I port September 16 as he presidency on the Republica it iivM.1. i irv wm servativc 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. I’m the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the Cards are the Winners— Roger Craig leaped on a group world heavyweight title in Miami Beach of teammates surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo- in February. He was credited with a tech- ments after the last out in the seventh World Series nical knockout of Sonny Liston when Lis- game won by the Red birds over the Yankees. 7-5, in St. ton failed to answer the bell for the sev- Louis. enth round. Alaskan Quake—A whole line of cars rest- ed about 20 feet below street level on a main thoroughfare in Anchorage the day following the disastrous earthquake on March 27.