Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Californians had been looking forward to a real show in this year's Republican gubernatorial primary campaign between Richard Nixon and former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a vigorous stump speaker and a vociferous Nixon hater. Last week the show ended almost before it began: Goodie Knight, 65, bedded down since November with infectious hepatitis, announced that he would reluctantly give up his 1962 political plans, and follow his doctor's advice...
...Knight's withdrawal left Nixon with two rivals for the chance to oppose Democratic Incumbent Edmund ("Pat") Brown in November. One is Harold J. ("Butch") Powers, 61, lieutenant governor under Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky...
...competition is corroding the strength and numbers of the metropolitan press. The attrition is so great that newsrooms often buzz with rumors about what paper will be next to go. One such tale got out of hand last week in Detroit, where, ever since 1932, John S. Knight's morning Free Press (circ. 550,000) has had no rival at the city's breakfast tables. Detroit buzzed with so many stories about the Free Press being on the block that Publisher Knight finally felt obliged to publicly brand them as lies. He ran a full-page...
...dogged, dazzling women's chess champion. Lisa Lane, 24, alibied, "I felt homesick, and besides that, I am in love." With whom? Mooned she mysteriously: "I am not engaged. I am just in love." But next day the once-divorced Lisa admitted that her white knight was American Weekly Reporter Neil Hickey (who had written a smitten profile of her two years ago), added, "I am discussing only my own feelings and cannot speak for him." Hickey's feelings: "The story is ridiculous...
Herold C. Hunt is an intriguing mixture of conflicting elements. He is on the one hand, the knight errant, ready to serve anywhere in the country because of love of challenge, his strong sense of responsibility, and his devotion to a firm set of principles mostly based on religious beliefs. On the other, challenge blends with ambition, responsibility with promotion and principle with tactics. Yet the blend has been a rewarding one both for the Charles W. Eliot Professor at the Graduate School of Education and for the millions of people indebted to him for his services. The origins...