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...Angeles, pressing hands and arguments. Both G.O.P. senatorial candidates, Governor Goodwin J. Knight and San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, pulled into town, and their Democratic opponent, Congressman Clair Engle, hopped from one airport to the next in a red and blue Cessna 310. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Hopeful William Fife Knowland flew out from Washington for a picnic in Riverside County, and his womenfolk bussed from Los Angeles to San Diego in their "Bill Knowland Special...
Actually there was little doubt about the nominees in next week's primary: Knowland had no opposition; Brown faced only an obscure San Francisco businessman; Clair Engle had a sharp edge over a 28-year-old Democratic unknown named Fritjof Peder Thygeson, and Goodie Knight would doubtless weather George Christopher's worst insults. But California candidates can crossfile, appear on both parties' ballots. All knew that next week's primary would 1) be an important popularity poll and 2) give some first answers to three burning questions...
What about Labor? No sooner had Knowland declared last fall than he spelled out plank No. 1, a right-to-work law. Other major Republicans, e.g., Goodie Knight, oppose right to work, as do the Democrats. Labor unions have urged their memberships to vote Knowland down. Will he be buoyed or buried by his stand...
...California's Top-Dog Republican? Before Knowland decided to swap his Senate seat for the Governor's chair, Goodie Knight had declared for another term in Sacramento. After Knowland and Nixon forces pressured Knight into the Senate race, Knight lost considerable face in party ranks. Should gregarious, pro-labor Goodie Knight pull more votes for the Senate than Knowland gets for Govenor, Goodie would doubtless establish himself as (next to Vice President Nixon) the state's top-dog Republican...
...primary, even Nixon got into the California politicking. Earlier in the week Bill Knowland had hailed Dick Nixon as the nation's "only major [Presidential] candidate on the Republican ticket." Nixon dutifully returned the compliment, urged his neighbors to vote for Knowland, "a man who refuses to knuckle down to any pressure group, regardless of the political consequence...