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...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 of the Tribune and Publisher Bill Knowland, Republican Houlihan was elected mayor of Democratic Oakland...
...voted against a U.N. resolution calling for the removal of Russian troops from beleaguered Hungary. He mouthed the Russian line at the Geneva conference on Laos last summer, has echoed Russia's call for an uninspected nuclear test ban. Once criticized by the former Senator William F. Knowland for his consistent advocacy of Red China's admission to the U.N., Menon acidly counseled the California Republican to "visit a doctor, a psychopath, or somebody...
...everyone liked the Tribune's assistant publisher. There was a forbidding coldness to him; even today he rarely visits the newsroom. Intolerant of deadwood. Knowland started chopping at it; since 1958 he has fired ten editorial hands, and seven more have quit in anger. Knowland declared war on overtime, trimmed the Trib's virtually unlimited sick leave. He promoted his son Joe, 30, to overseer at large, and Joe antagonized much of the staff. The American Newspaper Guild, which had long failed to organize the Tribune, succeeded last year. To the guild's surprise. Bill Knowland...
...Doing of It. Along the way. Bill Knowland also proved that he was a newsman. Always long on news, the Trib got longer; today it carries more news linage than any other evening paper in the U.S., has a larger cityside news staff-54 reporters-than any of across-the-bay San Francisco's three papers...
News staffers have come to know better than to tailor their stories to Knowland's political cloth. In the first local election held after he returned from Washington, Oakland Democrats were dumfounded to find that their side got equivalent play with the Republicans. Said Knowland, well aware that the Trib's circulation area is 60% Democratic: "We've got to serve the whole community." In his one try at personal reporting, Knowland filed dispatches of scrupulous objectivity from both 1960 party conventions. Wrote Knowland after the Republicans nominated Nixon: "Both parties have strong and able campaigners...