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California: Liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, hitherto a favorite of California Democrats, paid the price for a hopelessly crippled G.O.P. campaign, lost to conservative Democratic Congressman Clair Engle...
...race for Senator, Rose said Democratic candidate Clair Engle held "a substantial lead" over former Republican governor "Goodie" Knight...
California: The G.O.P. civil war promises Democratic victory: latest polls show once-popular liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, trailing considerably behind his Senate opponent, lesser-known northern California Congressman Clair Engle, 47, right-wing Democrat...
...their effort at semantic contortion, the Republicans would classify most non-Southern Democratic candidates in the same political category as Lenin. The image, however, will not stick when applied to Clair Engle of California, Prof. Gale McGee, Wyoming; Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota; Ernest McFarland, Arizona; Thomas Dodd, Conncticut; William Proxmire, Wisconsin; and Philip A. Hart, Michigan. These Senate candidates are no more radical than the President himself. The difference between the Democrats and Mr. Eisenhower is the difference betwen vigorous, imaginative administration and stand-pat, muddle-of-the road government...
Though his opponent in the U.S. Senate race is Democratic Congressman Clair Engle, California's outgoing Governor Goodwin J. Knight swings hardest against Fellow Republican William Fife Knowland. To an Oceanside meeting of wire-service editors last fortnight, Goodie argued bitterly that the Knowland-embraced right-to-work proposition on the upcoming ballot is "a non-Republican issue." Then Knight punched his running mate squarely on the jaw: "Since he injected a non-Republican issue into the campaign, I am under no moral or legal obligation to endorse his candidacy. We Republicans frequently have asked Democrats to vote...