Orono High School - Spartan / Orion Yearbook (Long Lake, MN)

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Democratic Victor — President Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 election by the greatest plurality and per cent of the total vote in I'. S. history. Johnson became President at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Harry's Battle for Voles—Sen. Barry Gold water was surrounded by fans at Knoxville, Tenn., airport September 16 as he campaigned for the presidency on the Republican ticket. The conservative senator swept to a first-ballot nomination at the convention in San Francisco. National Events in Review—1964 Nobel Prise H'inner-Dr. Martin I.uther King. Jr., tight, was greeted by Richard C. Patterson, commissioner of public events, at Kennedy International Airport Dee. 16 on arrival from Europe. Dr. King was in Oslo to receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prirc. Cards are the Winners—Roger Craig leaped on a group of teammates surrounding the pitcher Boh Gibson moments aftei the last out in the seventh World Series game won by the Redbirds over the Yankees. 7-5, in St. l-ouis. I'm the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after lie won I lie-world heavyweight title in Miami Beach in February. He was credited with a technical knockout of Sonny Liston when Liston failed to answer the hell for the seventh round. Alaskan Quake—A whole line of cars rested about 20 feet below street level on a main thoroughfare in Anchorage the day following the disastrous earthquake on March 27.