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...Yippies infused chaos, freakiness, drugs, violence, and music into the movement. Its heroes, male musicians and male radicals, energized a growing revolutionary virility cult. With cultural revolutionaries in the movement, how much chaos would it now tolerate? The Chicago 7 trial epitomized this conflict between the discipline of Tom Hayden, and the theatrics of Jerry Rubin...
Political Rationale. Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, likes to tell sympathizers that "fear of violence must be overcome. It is part of change. Our violence over the last ten years is equal to striking a match, compared to one bomb from a B-52." But if some radicals are overcoming their reticence to blow things up, other Americans are growing both fearful and impatient with the new Bakuninism that is detonating across the country...
...firm with this kind of capital can quickly tumble into serious difficulty. Hayden, Stone, for example, borrowed nearly $18 million in stock from some Oklahoma investors last March. Some of it consisted of shares of Four Seasons Nursing Centers, which later filed for bankruptcy. Hayden, Stone's capital has been further reduced by declines in the value of other borrowed shares. The firm has chopped salaries, cut back its staff and branch offices and sought refuge by negotiating for a merger with Walston & Co. Before that deal is consummated, Hayden, Stone may have to find an estimated...
...definition of Radical represented by Saul Alinsky recalls the radicalism of the original Port Huron Statement of SDS in 1962. "America rests in national stalemate... its democratic system apathetic and manipulated, rather than, 'of, by, and for the people.'" Tom Hayden discouraged anyone from insisting that this nation, too large to be a true democracy, must rely on representative democracy when he pointed out. "The 'order of the country is based on people being taught to relinquish the right to order their own lives...
...Hayden, Revolutionary