Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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National Events Democratic Victor — President Lyndon Johnson won the 1961 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. Barry's Battle for Votes-Sen. Barry Goldwafcr 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. 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 196-1 Nobel Peace Prize. jrds are the Winners—Roger Craig leaped on a group teammates surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo- ments after the last out in the seventh World Series Tamc 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. Alaskan Quake—A whole line of c:irs rest- ed about 20 feet below street level on a main thoroughfare in Anchorage the day- following the disastrous earthquake on March 27.