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...race relations have grown more embittered in Oakland, Calif., and outbreaks of violence have increased, the conservative Oakland Tribune (circ. 235,000) has earned the wrath of Negroes by solidly backing the police in every confrontation. Publisher William F. Knowland, 59, onetime Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has recently hired more Negro guards. At the same time, he has turned the already imposing Tribune building into something of a fortress. Every employee must show his pass before he can enter; Knowland's own office door is kept locked, and anyone seeking admission is scrutinized through a peephole...
These were the issues that helped Brown beat Knowland and Nixon, but they simply were not live in 1966. As Brown says, "nobody seemed to listen to me. After all, they could watch this good-looking guy on TV." Brown claims Reagan never criticized any of these programs or offered constructive solutions to the state's budget problems, but simply capitalized on the public's fear of deficit spending, big government, and possible corruption in an entrenched administration. Not until after the election did Brown realize that "people just got tired of hearing the same voice and the same thing...
Announcements like these won Scheer a lot of free television coverage. Suddenly cameraman -- even from William Knowland's conservative Oakland Tribune -- were following him everywhere. "Some of my Ramparts friends told me to cool the 'Black Power' stuff if I wanted to win, but I insisted there really wasn't any white backlash in the District...
...when he came from behind to beat established political figures, Brown has not established a spunky, fired-up campaign organization. No matter what the polls show, he can no longer claim to be the underdog, as he did so winningly against Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland and Richard Nixon...
...despite an early margin of 15% over Brown in June, he led the Governor by only 4% last week. Brown, who greatly relishes the role of underdog, in the past has risen from all-but-certain defeat to fell such G.O.P. Goliaths as former Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland in 1958 and Richard M. Nixon in 1962. Yet Reagan, who makes no secret of his inexperience in politics, in subtle fashion succeeds in projecting himself as the underdog...