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...Democrats (Adele Levine is a resolute Democrat), there is a remarkably high level of tolerance for the other's views. In the two classes I attended today, the students discussed the French crisis, Billy Graham, TIME'S movie reviews, nuclear testing (violent disagreement), Dick Nixon, and Bill Knowland (violent disagreement here, too) . . . Twenty-five TIME covers are displayed on the back wall...
...Making him the sixth Republican to decline to run for Senate reelection. The others: Vermont's Ralph Flanders, California's William Fife Knowland, Pennsylvania's Edward Martin, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith and Indiana's William E. Jenner...
California's G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight and California's Republican Senator William Fife Knowland are about as friendly as matter and antimatter. Knight, who wanted to run for re-election this year, was pressured out by Knowland, reluctantly announced his candidacy for Knowland's seat in the Senate. Last week the Pasadena Independent quoted Goodie Knight telling just exactly how he feels about his prospective running mate on California's Republican ticket. Said Knight...
...Senator Bill Knowland is a politically ambitious man. He wants to be President. In order to beat out Dick Nixon for the nomination in 1960, he decided to come back here and run for governor. If he could beat out a popular governor [i.e., Knight] in the primary and then lick the most popular nominee the Democrats could put up [i.e., California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown], he figured he would be almost invincible as a candidate for the presidential nomination...
...against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills than a routine pension and welfare bill...