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Delegates at Cleveland represented a wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...
Messersmith is a tough, hustling player and easygoing beach lover who looks a bit like Ryan O'Neal. He was a jock at the University of California in 1964 at the time of the Free Speech Movement there, and he searched out Mario Savio and had a talk with him "to see what the guy had to say." Now Savio is a schoolteacher and Messersmith is the revolutionary who broke the back of baseball's reserve clause...
...spending 13 per cent of its time propagandizing for world peace," the Charities' chairman explained. And 200 students showed up at a Harvard rally in solidarity with Berkeley's embattled Free Speech Movement, to hear Arthur MacEwan (then just a former University of Chicago student president) and later Mario Savio himself, expounding a view of the Movement like one that would become increasingly familiar at Harvard--of a struggle of the "managed" against "a managerial tyranny...a knowledge factory...plugged into the military and industrial--but not to truth...
...Indochina war just kept on getting bigger, and to increasing numbers of students it seemed to provide blatant, explosive proof that there might be some truth to analyses like Barrington Moore's or Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
...manic heyday of protest, California students were among the most demonstrative. They burned down the Bank of America at Isla Vista and brought out the National Guard five times. Berkeley, cradle of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, was especially volatile. In 1968 the Berkeley authorities installed Willis A. Shotwell as a full-time disciplinarian to deal with demonstrators...