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...political picture. In the 1966 California gubernatorial race, Republican Challenger Reagan fits that pattern; eight years ago the man who did was Democrat Pat Brown, now the defender, who was on our cover (Sept. 15, 1958) during his first campaign for Governor (in which he beat Republican William Knowland...
Those were heartwarming words, but onetime Republican U.S. Senator William F. Knowland, now publisher of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, rushed to offer more practical aid. He wired $300 to be used to pay the fine or help finance an appeal to Oregon's highest state court...
...year. Those of us who view this prospect with trepidation can take comfort in the fact that Los Vegas bettors, who are not in business to lose money, will not take any bets on Governor Brown. Though he is lagging behind in the polls (as he was against Knowland in 1958 and Nixon in 1962), they consider him a sure winner. It is a pleasure to be able to report at least one event of heart-warming familiarity in an otherwise war-torn political year...
Beginner's Skill. By attracting more votes than Brown in a state where the Democrats enjoy a 3-to-2 registration advantage, Los Angeles' Reagan rattled political seismographs from coast to coast. In the 1958 and 1962 primaries, after all, Brown ran well ahead of William Knowland and Dick Nixon, both well-established G.O.P. leaders. Reagan, making his first bid for public office, had been accorded a modest margin by the pollsters, who had unanimously predicted a smashing plurality for Brown...
Died. Joseph Knowland, 92, Republican publisher (from 1915 to 1960) of the Oakland Tribune and U.S. Congressman (five terms), who helped boost Earl Warren to the governorship and his own son William to the U.S. Senate; of pneumonia; in Piedmont, Calif...