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Myrdal, now 71 but as active a scholar as ever, last week completed a brief series of college lectures in Georgiahis first visit to the South since his classic work appeared. He has watched the racial problem unfold from afar, he says, and does not pretend that "after ten days in Georgia I have got to the bottom of the South." But in an interview with TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, Myrdal recorded his impressions of what was not a nostalgic return...
...many who knew him and the millions who watched him from afar, the life of Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing was a montage of endearing and memorable vignettes. In some of them he was the Populist Prince, handing out miniature liquor bottles at an old folks' home ("Holy water! That's what it is! But don't sprinkle it around. Pour it down!"). In others he was the Court Clown mugging shamelessly in a sailor's hat or a baseball cap. On a cold November day in 1963 he was the nation...
Backstage Defenses. The final hours and minutes are the worst. Just before his entrance, the actor may experience "blocking"-nothing less than disconnection "from all avenues of functioning, including speech." Onstage, blocking gives way to "depersonalization," wherein an observing self watches, as if from afar, a performing self. This terminal point of stage fright is blessedly brief: "Full recovery," says Kaplan, "is usually rapid...
...zieff's evidence is highly persuasive. For one thing, much of the rock that his expeditions gathered in the area is younger and heavier than typical land rocks, and bears other similarities to specimens found on the ocean floor. For another, the desert regions of the Afar triangle are covered with a thick layer of evap-orites, the salty debris left behind after seawater evaporates. Tazieff and his colleagues also found distinct traces of coral in the area's lava beds, plus a Stone Age ax that was actually encrusted with seashells-a sign that the relic...
Before the Afar triangle sinks back into the depths-an event that Tazieff reassuringly says is still a considerable time off-the region could enjoy unmatched prosperity. Because it is so geologically active, he speculates that underground fields of superheated water and steam lie just below the desert floor. If Ethiopia and her neighbors tapped this free source of power, they could produce millions of kilowatt hours of electricity at extremely low cost. The electricity could then be used to support large new industries-aluminum, fertilizers and petrochemicals. Thus, one of the world's most forbidding regions might...