• President Election
• Reports on Smoking
• IBM- System 360
• Verrazano Bridge

Sports

Olympics

NBA: Boston Celtics
NCAA Football: Alabama
Heisman Trophy: John Huarte

Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings Series: 4-1
US Open Golf: Julius Boros Score: 293 Course: The Country Club Location: Brookline, MA
World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. NY Yankees Series: 4-0

Chart-Toppers: 1964

1."There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton
2."I Want to Hold Your Hand"...The Beatles
3."She Loves You - The Beatles
4."Can't Buy Me Love"...The Beatles
5."Hello, Dolly!"...Louis Armstrong
6."My Guy"...Mary Wells
7."Love Me Do"...The Beatles
8."Chapel of Love"...The Dixie Cups
9."A World Without Love"...Peter and Gordon
10."I Get Around"...Beach Boys

Top Movies of 1964

1. The Carpetbaggers
2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
3. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
4. Charade
5. The Cardinal
6. Move Over Darling
7. My Fair Lady
8. What a Way to Go
9. Good Neighbor Sam
10. The Pink Panther

 

Academy Awards

Best Picture: "My Fair Lady"
Best Director: George Cukor..."My Fair Lady"
Best Actor :Rex Harrison..." My Fair Lady"
Best Actress: Julie Andrews..."Mary Poppins"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

HODGKIN, DOROTHY CROWFOOT, Great Britain, Royal Society, Oxford University, Oxford, b. 1910, d. 1994:

"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important
biochemical substances"
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Literature

SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL, France, b. 1905, d. 1980:

"for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and
the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"
(Declined the prize.)

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Peace

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.

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PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

The prize was awarded jointly to:

BLOCH, KONRAD, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1912 (in
Neisse, Germany); and

LYNEN, FEODOR, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut f&Mac217;r Zellchemie, Munich, b. 1911, d. 1979:

"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the
cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"

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Physics
The prize was divided, one half being awarded to:

TOWNES, CHARLES H., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ,
Cambridge, MA, b. 1915; and the other half jointly to:

BASOV, NICOLAY GENNADIYEVICH, USSR, Lebedev Institute for Physics, Akademija Nauk, Moscow, b. 1922; and

PROKHOROV, ALEKSANDR MIKHAILOVICH, USSR, Lebedev Institute for Physics, Akademija Nauk, Moscow, b. 1916:

"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to
the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser
principle"

 

Pulitzer Prizes

History: Sumner Chilton Powell..."Puritain Village"
International Reporting:Malcolm W. Browne..."Associated Press"
& David Halberstam...New York Times

National Reporting: Merriman Smith..."United Press International"
Public Service:
"St. Petersburg Times"