Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goody") Knight, who glows under the bright lights, arranged to be sworn in facing the cameras in the state's first televised inaugural ceremony. He also faced a lot of problems : California is running into the red at the rate of $7,000,000 a month, might require more taxes to finance its forthcoming record $1.5 billion budget. California farmers need irrigation water and Los Angeles needs fresh...
...Goody Knight had plans for every thing. He pushed the $1.2 billion state Feather River reclamation project, and he put out $150,000 for a study of smog. He was happy, and so were his staff mem bers: Goody, who used to keep them working far into the night, has been quitting at dinnertime since his recent marriage. His domestic bliss and political success are evident. He is on the friendliest terms with the state legislature, which is Republican-controlled. Goody Knight, rather than his fellow Californian, Vice President Dick Nixon, is likely to go to the 1956 G.O.P. Convention...
...roster of nearly 2,000 British subjects who made the grade. The Aga Khan, 77, who as holder of four British knighthoods can already call himself Sir Mahomed Shah, got a fancy new title, mostly for his aid to Moslems in Britain's East African colonies: Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Britain's urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia's holder of the world record for the mile run (3 min. 58 sec.), lanky John Landy, 24, was given the Order...
...daily newspapers, few are faster growing or more prosperous than those in the Knight chain. Since taking over the Akron Beacon Journal in 1933, John S. (Jack) Knight, 60, along with his brother James, 45, have bought papers in Miami, Chicago and Detroit, built them into the nation's third biggest chain (behind Hearst and Scripps-Howard), with a combined circulation of 1,389,766. Last week the Knights added a fifth link: the 84-year-old Charlotte, N.C. Observer, one of the South's biggest and richest newspapers. Price: about...
...exact hour each, Sutherland made scores of sketches-with and without the cigar, separate eye details, hand studies, expressions and color notes ("eyelids appear almost corn color; cheekbones, pink"). Churchill had a few ideas of his own about the portrait, strongly hinted that he should be painted as a Knight of the Garter. Sutherland sketched him in Garter robes, but quietly set the sketches aside in favor of black coat and striped trousers-more fitting, he believed, for a parliamentary gift...