Robert Laxalt founded the University of Nevada Press, which published almost all of his books written after 1964.

In 1958, he was elected to the United States Senate, unseating Republican Senator Ernest Malone with 58 % of the vote .. Cannon was nearly defeated in his first re-election bid in 1964, holding off Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest Senate elections ever.

Since 1964, following clashes between the two communities, the Turkish Cypriot seats in the House remained vacant, while the Greek Cypriot Communal Chamber was abolished.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon.

In 2011, Bushnell stated that the game was inspired by previous versions of electronic tennis he had played before ; Bushnell played a version on a PDP-1 computer in 1964 while attending college.

Two new 325s were created for Lennon and were shipped to him while The Beatles were in Miami Beach, Florida, on the same 1964 visit to the US: a one-off custom 12-string 325 model and an updated six-string model with modified electronics and vibrato.

In February 1964, while in New York City, F. C.

He led the National League in batting average four times ( 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1967 ), led the National League in hits twice ( 1964 and 1967 ), and won the Most Valuable Player award in the 1966 season, when he hit. 317 while setting career highs in home runs ( 29 ) and RBIs ( 119 ).

The doors are supposed to be closed while materialising ; in " Planet of Giants " ( 1964 ), the opening of the doors during a materialisation sequence caused the ship and its occupants to shrink to doll size.

Beginning in 1964, the FARC and ELN narcoterrorist groups were taking control of rural areas of the country by the beginning of the decade, while terrorist paramilitaries grew in other places as businesspeople and politicians thought the State would lose the war against guerrillas.

Kumaritashvili was the fourth athlete to die while in preparation for a Winter Olympics competition, following speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, 27, who died while preparing for the Albertville 1992 games, British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and skier Ross Milne, 19, who both died in the run up to the Innsbruck 1964 games.

The original dual-in-line package was invented by Bryant " Buck " Rogers in 1964 while working for Fairchild Semiconductor.

In April 1964, while the Druk Gyalpo was in Switzerland for medical care, Dorji was assassinated in Phuntsholing by an army corporal.

He first worked with real computers while studying astronomy at the Summer Science Program in 1964.

The show continued in New York with most of the original cast until 1964, when Paxton Whitehead replaced Miller, while the London version continued with a different cast until 1966.

As a result of the First Wilson government ’ s educational policies, opportunities for working-class children were improved, while overall access to education in 1970 was broader than in 1964.

The proportion of council housing rose from 42 % to 50 % of the total, while the number of council homes built increased steadily, from 119, 000 in 1964 to 133, 000 in 1965 and to 142, 000 in 1966.

Between 1963 and 1968, spending on housing increased by 9. 6 %, social security by 6. 6 %, health by 6 %, and education by 6. 9 %, while from 1964 to 1967 social spending increased by 45 %.

The number of elderly Britons receiving home helps rose by over 15 % from 1964 to 1969, while nearly three times as many meals on wheels were served in 1968 as in 1964.

Living standards generally improved, while public spending on housing, social security, transport, research, education and health went up by an average of more than 6 % between 1964 and 1970.

Callaghan was popular with Labour MPs and was elected to the Shadow Cabinet every year while the Labour Party was in opposition from 1951 to 1964.

In 1964 he appeared as Richard Burbage in Sherrin and Caryl Brahms musical of No Bed for Bacon, while his early stature as a personality was confirmed by a cartoon advert he devised for the Brewer ’ s Society proclaiming the charms of the local pub.

Amendments made to the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in 1964 extended the prevailing wage provisions to cover fringe benefits, while several increases were made to the federal minimum wage.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

Segregation of US tourist accommodation would legally be ended by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and by a court ruling in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States affirming that Congress ' powers over interstate commerce extend to regulation of local incidents ( such as racial discrimination in a motel serving interstate travellers ) which might substantially and harmfully affect that commerce.

After serving the College for 30 years, Noble retired in 1964 on account of his poor health.

In 1959, she joined the banned Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) and later began working at the magazine konkret, serving as chief editor from 1962 until 1964.

The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ordered Frederick County schools desegregated ( including those serving Stephens City ) in Brown v. County School Board ( 1964 ).

It is on the Caldervale Line between Leeds and Bradford Interchange and was built to replace Pudsey's two original stations — Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside — which were both closed in 1964 by the Beeching Axe along with the GNR Pudsey Loop serving them.

Workman was paroled on March 10, 1964, after serving 23 years in prison.

He was a lecturer in history at Hull University and at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming the founding Professor of Modern History at Kent University in 1964, serving also as Master of Eliot College from 1969 to 1972.

was a Japanese politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Japan, elected on 9 November 1964, and re-elected on 17 February 1967, and 14 January 1970, serving until 7 July 1972.

She belonged to an experienced political dynasty: her father, Morgan Phillips, was a former coalminer who served as General Secretary of the Labour Party between 1944 and 1962 ; her mother, Norah Phillips was a former member of London County Council who became a life peer in 1964, serving as a government whip in the House of Lords, and as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1978 to 1986.

Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID ( 8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007 ) was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979.

In 1964, after serving as a government minister in the colonial administration, Banda adopted a macroeconomic policy aimed at accelerating economic development for the betterment of Malawians.

Legendary NFL coach Bill Parcells was a linebacker at WSU in 1962 and 1963 before serving as a graduate assistant in 1964.

Johnson's Republican opponent in the 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater, knew Jenkins from the Senate and from serving as commanding officer of his Air Force Reserve unit, but initially denied knowing him.

After serving two years in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Stempel joined GM's Oldsmobile Division as a senior detailer in the chassis design department in 1958, later serving as senior designer ( 1962 ); transmission design engineer ( 1964 ); motor engineer ( 1969 ); and assistant chief engineer ( 1972 ).

After serving in the United Nations ’ peacekeeping force in the Congo, under Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, Ojukwu was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1964 and posted to Kano, where he was in charge of the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian Army.

He founded the Samoan News newspaper in 1964 and became director of tourism for the Government of American Samoa in 1966, serving until 1970.

In 1964, while serving as Ambassador to Japan, Reischauer was stabbed in an assassination attempt.

Following the inauguration of scheduled services between Land's End in Cornwall and St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly in 1947, BEA continued serving this route with Dragon Rapides due to a lack of a suitable fixed-wing alternative until BEA Helicopters took it over on 2 May 1964.

Passenger services were withdrawn after Wednesbury Station closed in 1964 under the Beeching Axe, but a steel terminal soon opened on the site and did not close until December 1992, with the railway finally closing on 19 March 1993 after serving the town for nearly 150 years.

Historically black colleges and universities ( HBCUs ) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community.

She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964.

Fenech Adami resigned from Prime Minister on 23 March 2004, thus becoming the longest serving Prime Minister since Independence in 1964.

Frost is the only person to have interviewed eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010 ( Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron ) and the seven US presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 ( Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.