Word: yaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucial midewest, the situation is muddled. The recent winner of the regional chairmanship fight is a YAF director, and possibly friendly to Phillips if he doesn't run himself. However, the current national chairman, still a YR power, may decide to back a candidate from his home state of Wisconsin...
Later in the day, a Boston group of anti-Castro Cubans were joined by members of the Young Americans for Freedom in a protest demonstration against the Castro government, David L. Morton '63, a director of the Harvard-Radcliffe YAF, reported...
Forming in front of the State House, the group was made up of Boston Cubans and members of YAF groups from local colleges. Parading before a generally favorable audience, the demonstrators carried such signs as "Cuba is a Red Satellite" and "Down With Castro," while singing the Cuban national anthem or shouting "Viva Kennedy...
...students in the audience were quite devoid of the somewhat pompous air which characterized the YAF leaders. Casually, almost sloppily dressed, they sat and smoked and listened fairly attentively, not suppressing a number of groans when YAF President Robert M. Schuchman turned his introduction of Goldwater into a filibuster. When speakers made statements like "the United States should stress victory over, rather than co-existence with, the Communist menace," they cheered, whistled, stomped their feet, and raised a great commotion. When someone referred to stock villians like Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, or Linus Pauling, they booed and hissed with...
After their exertion at the rally, many YSF members relaxed at cocktail parties. Talking with the movement's rank-and-file gave one a distinct feeling that they were by no means bigots, embittered cynics, or oldsters pompous before their time. (The YAF leadership and its adult advisors have taken great pains to eliminate that resist fringe which tries to attach itself to conservative groups, much as Communists bedevil liberal organizations.) While these students believed deeply in their philosophy of natural law, in the free market, limited government etc.,--and had often suffered for their convictions in terms of lower...