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...thing seemed straight out of a science-fiction thriller. It floated inches off the ground, sounded like a chain saw, and maneuvered like a drunken crab. The contraption stopped alongside a plane bound for Los Angeles, and Oakland Mayor John Houlihan stepped out onto the deck, shouting into a microphone: "Gentlemen, this has been a wonderful experience! We're really going to pioneer in this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim...
...DANIEL C. HOULIHAN Pearl River...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under...
Directing Oakland's revival is Republican Mayor John C. Houlihan, 51, the son of a San Francisco cop. Houlihan's campaign to save Oakland goes back to 1952, when he became chairman of the city's halfhearted planning commission. Houlihan began fighting for public housing and slum clearance against the opposition of the city fathers and the Oakland Tribune, the conservative local paper owned by the family of then Senator William Knowland. But Houlihan was undismayed by the entrenched opposition, got some redevelopment projects under way, eventually won over his critics. Last year, with the backing...
Beyond Building. Taking office last July, Mayor Houlihan found a ready aide in City Manager Wayne Thompson, a persuasive performer who can speak the language of both the sociologists and the politicians. Between Houlihan and Thompson, so many projects are now under way in Oakland that Thompson has to give city councilmen daily reports of the breathless course of redevelopment. Oakland has finished, is building or is about to build projects costing some $750 million. Among them: 40 schools, two stadiums, $30 million worth of harbor improvements, two freeways costing $150 million, three slum-clearance projects totaling $74 million...