Word: governor
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Despite the sprawling expanse of Southern California, candidates in the California primary were almost as plentiful on the streets last week as palm trees. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Edmund Gerald ("Pat") Brown, roamed Los Angeles, pressing hands and arguments. Both G.O.P. senatorial candidates, Governor Goodwin J. Knight and San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, pulled into town, and their Democratic opponent, Congressman Clair Engle, hopped from one airport to the next in a red and blue Cessna 310. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Hopeful William Fife Knowland flew out from Washington for a picnic in Riverside County, and his womenfolk bussed from...
...California's Top-Dog Republican? Before Knowland decided to swap his Senate seat for the Governor's chair, Goodie Knight had declared for another term in Sacramento. After Knowland and Nixon forces pressured Knight into the Senate race, Knight lost considerable face in party ranks. Should gregarious, pro-labor Goodie Knight pull more votes for the Senate than Knowland gets for Govenor, Goodie would doubtless establish himself as (next to Vice President Nixon) the state's top-dog Republican...
...with a cheesemaker's handshake who calls himself neither radical nor conservative. Steinle's prime asset : as a supreme court justice he was not involved in last year's bitter seven-man G.O.P. Senate primary in which the Old Guard lost out to Ikeman and former Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, then stayed home in strength while Kohler lost the election to hard-campaigning, Fair-Dealing Bill Proxmire...
There was surprisingly unanimous agreement throughout the hemisphere on one point: the Reds had exploited an already rotten situation. Said Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin: "The Communists must have taken advantage of a feeling among certain groups well beyond the small number of Reds there...
Right from the start, the Pabst junket was as hopped-up as enterprising public relations men could make it. In Milwaukee, before boarding the plane, newsmen walked on a red carpet into the Pabst plant to watch Wisconsin's Governor Vernon Thomson bung the golden 100 millionth barrel of beer. "We had to delay production two months to make sure the golden barrel did not get away from us," cracked a Pabst man. At lunch the party blinked at the deadpan declaration of Pabst President Harris Perlstein: "This golden barrel is the golden symbol of peace...