Yippies

Besides being the co-founder of the Youth International Party, also known as the Yippies, along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Paul is famous for gaving Groucho Marx his first acid trip, writing for Mad, being publisher of Larry Flynt's Hustler in the late 1970s, and editing Lenny Bruce's autobiography.

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So Hoffman and his friends invented the idea of Yippies, people whose every action was an ad for counter-culture: "Yippies, sex-loving, dope-loving, commie, beatnik, hippie, freako, weirdos.

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Rubin, a colorful protester during the anti-Vietnam war period who was associated with the "Yippies," took a job on Wall Street and argued in defense of capitalism.

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Rubin, a colorful protester during the anti-Vietnam war period who was associated with the "Yippies," took a job on Wall Street and argued in defense of capitalism.

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, given that you couldn't get into Disneyland without first buying a ticket, surprisingly few Yippies actually made it into this theme park on the morning of Aug. 6, 1970.

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So rather than offending thousands of Disneyland guests with this seemingly bold piece of political theater and, more importantly, generating millions of dollars' worth of free publicity for the Youth International Party, the Yippies had, at best, mildly annoyed a couple dozen tourists.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

The now-middle-aged Yippies who actually took part in 1970's Pow-Wow talk about how amusing yet annoying it was to continually be shadowed by these soft-spoken, very polite, tie-wearing executives as they moved through the theme park.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

And speaking of no-shows, perhaps the biggest disappointment of the day was that Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin failed to make the scene, which then left the Yippies who had actually bought admission to Disneyland that day without a de facto leader of their in-theme-park protest.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Sensing that this situation was about to spin out of control, Disneyland managers felt that they now had no choice but to shut the Yippies down.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

And the fact that the other guests at Disneyland didn't really seem to be paying attention to the Yippies they weren't even stopping to watch as these teenagers snake-danced on Main Street, U.S.A. and sang about how they were "marching to Cambodia" genuinely began to irk members of the Youth International Party.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011