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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...
...stand the means by which your secret signs do unfold...
...residence, an opulent mansion surrounded by slums. The neighborhood teems and festers while Leo laments his own lethargy. "I can't get involved," he moans, "what can I do?" He passes most of his days pressed against an upstairs window, telescope to his eye, watching the human comedy unfold in the shops and tenement windows across the way. When he is not peeping, he is halfheartedly fighting off the advances of a maneater named Margaret (Billie Whitelaw) and trying to avoid the intricate political machinations of some of his father's henchmen...
...more than the sum of its disparate parts. Hundreds of thousands of Americans found, face to face, that they had a common cause. Those who participated actively may be only the visibly restive; many sympathizers and many others merely interested watched the day's events unfold on television. "Probably the majority of the country were touched in some way by the outpouring," TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey concluded. "It was the collection of smaller events in the churches, the schools, the town halls and on the sidewalks that gave M-day its meaning...
...dilemma remains: a negotiated peace does not seem readily at hand while Thieu and Ky hold power-and while Hanoi continues to insist that they must go. One possible answer may lie not in logic but evolution. It could come about as the timetable of U.S. withdrawals continues to unfold. At some point down the track, Thieu and Ky are likely to reach the conclusion that if they cannot live forever with Americans present to protect them, then they cannot operate without the Communists. When that point is reached, it may well be that something like an electoral or control...