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Another thing that bothered Heikki was that Harlon L. Dalton '69, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats, was very angry. Heikki, MRA's advance man for the Boston tour, had gotten Young Dems, Young Republicans, and the International Relations Council to sponsor Sing-Out and so allow the group to come to Harvard and use Sanders. Dalton made it quite clear that he did not want Young Dems' name on any publicity. The Dems were reluctant to sponsor the group and this became just part of the bargain. But posters that Heikki had printed were up all over Cambridge with...
Finally, there is the more muddled case of the songs. Dalton reminded Heikki after the show that he and some other YD executives had gone through the MRA Songbook picking out "offensive songs." One of them, which was shown on television last fall, mocks out "the moaning and groaning you hear from some of our campuses and coffeehouses today." It was a folk song about a girl who apparently wanted to sleep with her "Willie" and selfishly wanted him to come back from the army. Dalton wanted it out, and Heikki agreed...
Then there were the military songs. Dalton leafed through the book and came to "Follow Me," a rugged 4/4 ditty all about the U.S. Infantry. It ends: "I want to be an Airborne Ranger, Ee-ah! Follow me!" Dalton did not like that one either and Heikki assured him it would be out. Finally, according to the YD president, Heikki agreed to leave only one song with a military reference in the show, and that a mild...
...Dalton Overridden...
...executive committee of Young Dems voted Monday night to table a motion supporting the letter to Pusey. The officers apparently overrode the wishes of their president Harlon L. Dalton '69, a member of the ad hoc committee...