European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Editors note Nineteen silly four was the year Gen Douglas Herbert Hoover and Jawaharlal Nohrn red China exploded an atomic Cyprus and the Congo Vietnam continued to be a trouble three civil a tells workers were Mur dered in Mississippi and rare riots broke out in Harlem and other Northern Loca a massive quake Shook on brighter Side in a new sparked Ranger took the first closeup photos of the taxes were Cut and a new civil rights Bill was enacted into but the lop Story of the a chosen by Ike editors of the stars and was the landslide Victory of president Lyndon Raines in a few Short months after the assassination of president Johnson wrangled Toi Cut and civil rights Bills from then he capped his impressive congressional achievements with a smashing Triumph Over gop presidential candidate Barry the details of How Johnson won the presidency in his own As Well on the other top stories of the Are reviewed la these a Ilfin Toyi we want but voters overwhelmingly wanted Johnson and gave him a landslide heres How editors rated them the presidential culminating in president Johnsons the ouster of soviet Premier no Ella civil rights a new Law and violence in both North and Vietnam a series of governmental retaliation for North Viet namese torpedo boat attacks and ilex Pudup the Congo Tshombe revolts and red China explodes atomic assassination aftermath the Warren commission concludes Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed Kennedy Jack Ruby convicted of Oswalds de Gaulle French president Charles de Gaulle recognizes red pursues his own Way on multilateral common Market and and invades Western hemisphere with triumphal tour of latin Cyprus Island dispute brings Greece and Turkey to Brink of space race Ranger makes first closeup photos of Moon soviets orbit three men in one capsule both Powers launch Mars december 1964 the stars and stripes Barry Goldwater ended one of the most unusual election Yean of the 20th Century Al noon lust 4 when he formally conceded what pollsters Hod predicted months the overwhelming Victory of Lyndon Balnes Johnson and his running Hubert Humphrey of the democratic ticket swept 481 of the 538 electoral for the humbly bom the Testa of Victory was Sweet he had lost the democratic nomination to John Ken Nedy in 1mo had fidgeted while out of the limelight Ai vice then Hod assumed the the and his fallen Many a Democrat Rode the Avalanche to the party stretched its House majority to 295140 and its Songalo majority to democrats also cup tured 17 of the 25 gubernatorial Johnson could be forgiven a Little postelection hyperbole when he called the More than million votes he registered a mandate for despite the Lack of so called gut issues in and despite some apathy toward both american political expression 01 it had not since the Days of Franklin Roose the Goldwater forces accelerated the polarization by sweeping through the National convention in san Francisco with a conservative program which alienated Many party moderates and the reaction to the negro drive for civil to materialize measurably except in the deep where Goldwater won the front Losh of disgruntled republicans helped give the democratic ticket to per cent of the popular Johnsons plurality topped the per cent won in lilt by his Mentor and on the the president won such solidly Republican states is Maine and if the political spotlight Wai on the newly elected chief a few beams managed to Nicker overcoming charges of won his first elective office As senator from new defeating Kenneth the magic of the Kennedy name and the state democratic sweep helped boost the 38yearold former attorney general Back into the capital George Romney of Michigan became a Power in the top stratum of the gop with a decisive win despite the democratic sweep of his former Hoofer George also bucked the demo cratic tide to defeat former White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger for a California Senate largely on the votes from Southern Strom who led the Nix Cral revolt in bolted democratic party because of the but civil rights plunk in the platform armed Gui supporters of As the year came to a the gop was deeply torn by internecine Wranik Ling As moderates began efforts to rid the High command of especially National chairman Dean Page 11