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...revolution. Often with no visible means of support, today's young radicals remain sufficiently if not well-fed, adequately if erratically clothed, and able to catch the first wind of protest and the nearest available means of transportation in time to show up in the front lines from Berkeley to Birmingham, from Chicago to Kent State. Celebrities like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman can stay close to the action without exactly pinching pennies: Rubin's book Do It! has already earned him $45,000; Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have raked...
Weil-Heeled Liberals. There are several means of funding the movement. A showing of Cool Hand Luke on the Berkeley campus netted $500 for the Inter-Strike Co-Ordinating Committee. Boston's Progressive Labor Party regularly holds bake sales and dances, this month drew 200 sympathizers to a rock concert at M.I.T. Biggest contributions, both of money and equipment, come from well-heeled liberals who support the radicals' drive for peace if not their revolutionary tactics and theories. The big earners among professional radicals, like Hoffman and Rubin, plow most of their profits back into the movement. Then...
...surgery, legal defense funds for free legal assistance and bail money in political cases. Radicals for the most part have no insurance and no credit payments. Furniture is inherited from friends, books borrowed from the library, transportation by bicycle or by thumb. "This country is so affluent," admits a Berkeley radical, "that we can live off its leavings...
This situation also worries many U.S. economists, notably Robert Triffin, one of the world's leading monetary experts. A short, round-faced, friendly man, Triffin was born and educated in Belgium, became a U.S. citizen in 1942, and is now master of Berkeley College at Yale. He has long advised both U.S. and European governments; he was among the first to suggest creation of the new international money that last year came into being as Special Drawing Rights, or paper gold. At a recent meeting of TIME'S Board of Economists, of which he is a member...
...Brown, vehemently opposed the war (see box opposite page). But Brown hit that issue from the beginning and won the active aid of antiwar student volunteers. How much they helped or hurt is uncertain. College-age campaign workers were more successful in a Democratic House primary in the Oakland-Berkeley area, where they worked for Ronald Dellums, a black member of Berkeley's city council. But Jeffery Cohelan, the incumbent whom Dellums beat, is himself an antiwar liberal, making the victory a dubious one for the campus activists...