Word: heikki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months of preparation were over. Gerald W. Blakeley Jr. of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had underwritten the Boston tour with a fat $25,000 check. The Sing-Out Kids had finished their tour of the Caribbean and their assault on New York and Yale. Heikki Lampela had secured the sponsorship and the theatre. The Belmont housewives and the high school kids and the old men and women and the Harvard and Radcliffe students had run the gauntlet of picketers carrying signs reading "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Sing Away Your Sickness with a Right-Wing Melody." They were...
...true. "We did not 'invite' the film to the area, our chairman does not hold the opinion credited to him... When MRA people were confronted with proof of the misrepresentation, they acknowledged that some 'misconstruction' could be placed on the press release." That is the same kind of apology Heikki mumbled to Dalton on Sunday night...
...Young Dems case is unclear. Heikki went to the then-president Lawrence E. Seidman '68 and asked him to provide $3000 for the performance. Seidman turned him down, and then the problems began. The YD executive committee was split on the matter of sponsring MRA after Heikki said he didn't want money, just someone to get Sanders for them. Eventually the members who felt that everyone has a right to be heard, "in the spirit of Rockwell," as Dalton says. Seidman made the decision, saying "I hope this won't be a Bay of Pigs" as Dalton took over...
Dalton backed him up, but he admitted later, "We really knew nothing about MRA. We were pretty much opposed to it, but we didn't want to make a fuss about it." Dalton also claimed that Heikki had told him that the Young Republicans had agreed to sponsor the Sing-Out, and YD members knew at the time that no such decision was made. The Young Dems said they would not sponsor MRA without the YR's in on it too. Dalton laid down more stipulations, about publicity and about songs. MRA was not to say that...
There is another unsual part of the story. When Heikki first came to ask for money from the YD's, Dalton said. "We completely embarrassed him by asking loaded questions and interrupting frequently. Many people felt very bad about treating him that way, and that may have affected our final decision." So Heikki got his group into Harvard and many Young Dems executives regretted it, especially after the show...