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...WILLIAM KNOWLAND himself has aimed at the White House since boyhood, left Washington partly because he thought Sacramento would be a better jumpingoff place for the presidency. A loss to Brown would wreck Knowland's chances...
VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON is caught between the furiously feuding forces of Bill Knowland and Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, the G.O.P. Senate candidate. Unless Nixon can patch things up, a Democratic sweep figures to cost him heavily in prestige and in the benefits of a strong Republican Party in his home state...
Throughout the primary campaign, bitter Knight and Knowland forces worked desperately-and successfully-at cutting each other's Republican throats. Bill Knowland terrified his fellow Republicans by coming out foursquare for a right-to-work law. All other major Republican candidates frantically disavowed the Knowland gambit, and organized labor went out against Knowland as never before. But the most lasting effect of the Republican brawl was that it gave the Democrats the chance to attack a man of straightforward ways and impersonal honesty as a ruthless politician who had brutally shoved Goodie Knight aside to satisfy his own consuming...
...brawling Republicans (TIME, June 16). For the first time in the 45-year history of California's famed cross-filing primary system, Democrats voted a straight party line, giving handsome pluralities to nearly all Democratic candidates, including Senatorial Candidate Engle. Pat Brown, predictably, led the way, walloping Bill Knowland by an astonishing 662,000 votes...
...foibles, Pat Brown has never yet been one to underrate an opponent or to miss the slightest eddy in the political current. For one thing, Knowland, tied closely to his Senate duties until last month, is now stumping California from border to border and just such stumping won him his senatorial seat over big-name Democrat Will Rogers Jr. in 1946. Knowland lacks Pat Brown's charm, but he knows what he thinks and says what he knows (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957)-and just such a reputation won him the senatorial nomination on both tickets in 1952. Conceivably, California...