Word: hayden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden, at 27 the No. 2 U.S. representative in Vinh Binh province. He set the example by helping turn his Phu Vinh irregulars into a disciplined and effective fighting force...
...irregulars were started by Hayden two weeks after Tet as an early-warning network of civilians who, in their spare time, would help government forces defend Phu Vinh. Hayden, who once spent a summer in the U.S. work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That...
Nixon won in this state--the only one outside of the deep South which went for Goldwater in 1964. Arizona not only gave Nixon its 9 electoral votes, but elected Goldwater to take retiring Carl Hayden's place in the Senate. As he left for a sixty-day fishing trip, Goldwater said he looked forward "to serving in the interests of the way of life that you and I all love." Jack Williams beat Sam Goddard for the second time in the race for Governor...
UNITY was conceived two years ago by John T. Hayden, a black graduate of the Harvard Business School. After writing a term paper about the economic needs of the ghetto community, Hayden decided to establish a community-based commercial bank in Roxbury. He contacted Sneed, who, at, that time, owned a small real estate business in Roxbury and was involved in civil rights boycotts and bussing attempts...
...Hayden and Sneed laid the plans for Unity, contacting faculty members at the Business School and black professional people in Roxbury for advice. The Unity Bank Association, consisting of 88 organizers of the bank was formed in late 1966, and carried on the work without Hayden when he was drafted soon after graduation...