Word: yip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to wonder if they'll come riding in on steers, twirling their lassoes, yip-yip-yipping away and dribbling behind their backs while wrestling a helpless 250-lb. calf to the ground--all in the tip-off circle...
...cross state lines to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. They stirred up demonstrators and helped lead street protests against the Chicago police that often turned violent. One of their leaders was Jerry Rubin, field marshal of the yippies. Remember the yippies? Well, they were the Youth International Party (YIP...
...Under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Berkeley architecture major, Christopher Yip, is recording a neglected part of Americana by sketching outhouses in northern Virginia. His pay: $132 a week plus housing in a stable...
...coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit of cooperation is matched by the leaders of the Youth International Party (YIP), the chief coordinators for the dozen or more radical groups massing for what one of their flyers calls "peaceful direct action beneath the summer sun of blue-watered Miami Beach." Yippie leaders have set up their mimeograph machines in a posh five-room suite two blocks from the Miami Beach...
...that everything is going smoothly. YIP, for example, turned down the city's offer of two demonstration sites, the first because it was too small and the second because it was in the middle of an old folks' section. "Can you imagine what would happen if there was massive tear gassing?" says Nightbyrd. "Those old people can't run, and some of them would die." Eventually, Pomerance set aside two grassy areas in front of the convention hall for demonstrations. A believer in "maximum security with minimum visibility," Pomerance arranged for the fences around the demonstration grounds...