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...wife, Sissela, the daughter of Gunnar Myrdal, arrived in his office just before 10:30 this morning to await with him the expected call from the assembled Governing Boards...
...spent the next year in Paris as a Ful bright Scholar where he met Sissela Ann Myrdal, daughter of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. They were married in 1955 in Louviers, France, by the former French prime minister, Pierre Mendes-France. They have three children...
While he was at the Law School he became a close friend of Kingman Brewster who, Bok says, interested him in teaching. He spent a year in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar where he met Sissela Myrdal, daughter of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. They were married...
Twenty-six years ago, with the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Swedish Social Scientist Gunnar Myrdal forced America's face to a mirror. The image, drawn with the most exhaustive research ever done into the lives of blacks in the U.S., was of shocking racism. It was tempered only by Myrdal's declaration of faith in a nation he admiredthat Americans were fundamentally decent and moral, and would overcome racism by working toward their ideals...
...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...