Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Pat Brown is happily aware of the national prominence into which he was catapulted by his 1,012,000-majority victory over Republican Bill Knowland for Governor. Last week, at La Quinta, a resort about 20 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket...
...primaries, friendly Pat Brown, the man from the nation's second biggest and fastest-growing state, is a living ad for the paws that refresh. In a day of political moderation. Brown yields right of way to none as a middle-of-the-roadhog. As potential leader of California's big (at least 68 votes) delegation to the national convention, Brown may hold make-or-break power over other party hopefuls. If nothing else, that kind of power may be clipped as coupons for the vice-presidential nomination...
...during his eight years as state attorney general, he must prove himself in the infinitely tougher job of Governor; 2) a political loner, Brown has stood aloof from the Democratic professionals and made enemies in the process ("There are something like 30,000 Democratic Club workers," says a top California party leader, "and at least half of them are just waiting for Brown to make his first mistake. Then they're going to run wild"); 3) even to control the California delegation as a favorite-son candidate, Brown may have to fight Senator-elect Clair Engle and National Committeeman...
...state Democratic delegate hunters: "I think if anyone did come in here and try to capture the primary, we'd meet them headon. If they lost the primary, as I'm sure they would, then they'd have no subsequent chance of support from the California delegation...
Bernice Layne Brown, 49, married California's Governor-elect Pat Brown in 1930, has four children, two grandchildren. Never intensely interested in politics, she hugged the background until Pat announced for the gubernatorial race. She did not approve of his running, much less the prospect of leaving their Forest Hill home in San Francisco for the Governor's mansion in Sacramento, but she jumped into the campaign with surprising verve, even left her sickbed (phlebitis) against doctors' orders to make the election-night rounds with him. Gifted with lively wit, Bernice Brown showed a great talent...