Word: knights
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Midwest & Mountain States. As of now, Goldwater probably would get nearly all the convention votes of Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. "This guy," says Barry-Booster Frank Whetstone of Cut Bank, Mont., "can sell-and he can win." In California, former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Rockefeller man, admits Goldwater gains over Rockefeller in his state, but insists that Barry "couldn't possibly win." Nonetheless, California has a huge assortment of conservatives -from mild to Birch. They are well organized and gave Richard Nixon a tough fight in the gubernatorial primaries last year...
Each produces a knight...
...California. One of them, Governor Earl Warren, was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. in 1953, and then there were three. William F. Knowland, Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, resigned to run for Governor in 1958; he lost, and then there were two. In that same election, Goodwin Knight, who had succeeded Warren as Governor, was defeated for the Senate, leaving just one. That was Richard Nixon, who, after coming within a hairbreadth of the presidency, ran for Governor last year, lost, and recently moved to New York. That left none...
...giants stood U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul), whom Governor Warren had appointed in 1952 to fill out Nixon's unexpired Senate term. An index of Kuchel's power was the makeup of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican Convention: Nixon, Knowland and Knight divided up the delegation, each taking 23 seats. The one remaining seat went to Kuchel...
...before I became Secretary of State, and in those good old days, TIME said some very nice things about me. We are members, I suppose, of a special order of cover-story victims, and all of us share the experience of having been fully exposed. But we have our Knights Commanders, the Men of the Year; we have our Grand Knight Commander, the Man of the Half-Century -the incomparable Winston Churchill-so this is a proud order. It is a great privilege for me to bring congratulations to Harry Luce and to his associates on this 4Oth occasion...