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CHALLENGE TO AFFLUENCE by Gunnar Myrdal. 172 pages. Pantheon...
Sometimes it has taken an imaginative outsider to see the U.S. plain. There were De Tocqueville and Lord Bryce, and in this century the Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal...
Church bells ring on a winter Sunday in a Swedish coastal village. The devout -they number just nine-assemble in the drafty little stone building. The pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman...
...world bobsledding championships that ended last week, Igls proved about 3 sec. faster for the metric mile than the Lake Placid groove. It also turned out to be a bobber's nightmare. On the second day of the two-man trials, a Swedish team piloted by Gunnar Ähs was hitting 50 m.p.h. when it zoomed into the No. 9 bend, nicknamed the Hexenkessel, or Witches' Pot. The sled slid up the 40-ft. bank, bounced down and ricocheted sickeningly from wall to wall. Ähs's upper front teeth were sheared off on the ice; both...
...fundamental principles of the Tenth Amendment for nearly 100 years, and further held that state soverignty could not be bartered away or surrendered by legislative action. Then suddenly, they reversed [earlier] decisions,...and began to enter orders, decrees, and edicts based on sociological ideas as advanced and advocated by Gunnar Myrdal and others, thereby whittling away, year by year, the rights that are reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment. These decisions are in conformity with the wishes of the left-wing and Communist front organizations...