Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California's former (1953-59) Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight has most of the things that make men content: a handsome wife, a pleasant home in Los Angeles, robust good health, and a comfortable income that includes an annual $16,000 state pension and an $850-a-week job as a television commentator. But Goodie Knight is restless: he wants to be Governor again...
...pausing, he continued: "I'll tell you why. In two days I'd have itchy feet again. I can't keep out of it. I love this state and I loved being Governor, and I'm going to make another push for it." Said Virginia Knight, with an understanding smile: "What's that song? It's better the second time around...
...disagree with Virginia: to Richard Nixon, Goodie's gubernatorial candidacy could only come as a Knightmare. Under relentless pressure to run for Governor against Democratic Incumbent "Pat" Brown as a way to keep alive his 1964 presidential chances, Nixon had hoped to run uncontested in the Republican primary. Knight's announcement shattered that hope-and although he often acts like a clown, Goodie is a formidable California campaigner. As he himself mused last week: "I speak Spanish, and of course we have a large Spanish population. I have a real feeling for the Jewish people. I have always...
Dick Nixon, still withholding any formal announcement of his own plans, reacted blandly to Knight's candidacy: "I think Mr. Knight had a perfect right to announce his candidacy." But for Nixon, the prospects were nonetheless distressing: even if he were to beat Goodie Knight in the Republican gubernatorial primary, the bitter G.O.P. split might well ensure Governor Brown's reelection. And Goodie seemed to be itching to cause just such a split. "If Dick gets into it," he said last week, "we're going to have a terrible fight, a really terrible fight...
...would abandon Nigel Dennis' August for the People by mid-month. Among the lesser troupers who will be made jobless by Harrison's decision was the gifted actress who portrayed his mistress Rachel Roberts, 33, daughter of a Welsh Baptist minister and favored traveling companion of aspiring knight bachelor Harrison...