Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into U.S. politics to a previously unmatched degree; of a respiratory ailment; in San Francisco. Insisting that they promoted only what they believed in, Whitaker & Baxter were on the winning side of all but a handful of the 85 political campaigns they handled, helped vault Earl Warren and Goodie Knight into California's gubernatorial mansion, ran the National Professional Committee for Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 "to rally the people against the dangers of socialism." and earned $400,000 for their biggest battle-a four-year, $4,700,000 American Medical Association campaign that killed Harry Truman...
California's usually reliable Mervin Field poll indicated last week that Dick Nixon would wallop former Governor Goodwin J. Knight in the 1962 Republican gubernatorial primary 77% to 12%, and that both Nixon and Knight could beat incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown in the election-Nixon by 48% to 38% and Knight...
...calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This is the most pro-Western government Syria's ever had." adding pointedly...
...week's end, Nixon aides threw countercharges against Knight, who had, they said, once offered to pledge the California Republican delegation to support Nixon for President in 1964 if Nixon would step out of the way and let Goodie be elected Governor...
...washday wonder of Britain is a youthful appliance maker who has convinced British housewives that his product is a knight in shining armor, ready to rescue them from drudgery-on the installment plan. "All women in England want carefree kitchens as near to the Americans' as possible," says John Bloom, 29-and he has got rich quick by giving them what they want. In just three years Bloom has captured 12% of Britain's washing-machine market by borrowing U.S. mass production methods, of showing a fine disregard for conservative British business habits and a finer knack...