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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...
...that they would create a national "groundhog psychology," or that too much "shelter rattling" might provoke the enemy. Others urge them on the ground that they would be an effective deterrent to attack. Neither view touches the crux of the shelter debate. The important point is that shelters can save lives...
...ball - all victims of the talking picture. But there is one group that still remembers: a fiercely dedicated underground called the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Like the electric-trolley buffs and the antique-auto fanciers, the Enthusiasts are a diehard coterie, with a single-minded mission: to save those mighty relics of the recent past from the wrecker's hammer...
Meanwhile, down in the far recesses of the store basement, empty Coke bottles continue to pile up. The count now stands at 150 cases. As soon as they save enough, the brothers plan to send them in with their 6,969 boxtops and get a toy submarine...
...Save the Plowboy? is a slice-of-life play, but in its spare and honest intensity it slices close to the center...