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  1. 1936-1989. US left-wing political activist,
  2. founder of the Yippies (Youth International
  3. Party), a political offshoot of the hippies.
  4. He was a member of the Chicago Seven, a
  5. radical group tried for attempting to disrupt
  6. the 1968 Democratic convention. Hoffman was
  7. arrested 52 times and was a fugitive from
  8. justice 1973-80. He specialized in
  9. imaginative political gestures to gain media
  10. attention, for example throwing dollar bills
  11. to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  12. 1967. His books include Revolution for the
  13. Hell of It 1969. He campaigned against the
  14. Vietnam War and, later, for the environment.
  15. He committed suicide.
  16.