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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...
...Market announced a week-long special sale of many staple goods, plus free balloons for the kiddies and free orchids for the ladies. Despite the entreaties of the pickets, both Negroes and whites streamed into the market last week and business was almost back to normal. Militants muttered that Oakland was in for more trouble. But for the time being at least, William Knowland had won his battle...
...million expansion program. The city's airport authority foresees satellite airports located no more than 150 miles from International Airport. Travelers would go to the satellites, be ferried by short-takeoff or vertical-takeoff planes to International to catch their longer flights to someplace else. Oakland Airport Manager Glenn A. Plymate has a more advanced idea. He thinks that industry should make such communications as telephone and television so sophisticated that businessmen could conduct nearly all of their business in the office and would hardly ever need...
...begin an anti-war, anti-draft week that would culminate in a march on the Pentagon "to confront the warmakers." In Boston, 237 men, including 23 Harvard students, burned or turned in their cards. In New York, Baton Rogue, and San Francisco the scene was the same. In Oakland, California, all through the week, anti-war demonstrators trying to march on the induction center there battled police, and the New York Times showed you the blood on the front page...
...twelve-team league." But the way the divisions are set up, two clubs could wind up hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York and Washington - and the loss of those games is likely to be reflected in gate receipts. To be sure, the Twins and White Sox will have only...