Pattern for Tomorrow

These are the weavers, the pattern makers, the keepers of the wolf and warp. Even as we watch the pattern emerges, the squares are completed, the circles join. And more is woven here than cloth. Dreams are made here and hope, and a thousand promises.

They hold them at their task. The weavers, the pattern makers. More than cloth is made here. Look closely and observe the pattern for tomorrow. The National Broadcasting Company, in collaboration with the Alfred B. Sloan Foundation, presents Pattern for Tomorrow, the fourth in a series of programs describing what we believe to be one of the most significant developments of our time,

the growth of the South. witness this growth, and to catch on our tape recorders the voices and the sounds of this latter-day revolution, we made a pilgrimage, set out like some youngest son in the old legends to see what hills lay beyond the hills. Our guide and companion on our pilgrimage is NBC

correspondent Henry Cassidy. Mr. Cassidy. For those of you who are just joining us on our journey, let me point out that I am a stranger to these southern roads, these hills, these soft accents and gentle ways.

I was born in New England, and some of my early memories are of facing into wind and snow and struggling down the little road that led from my house to school. The land, rock, strewn and gaunt, was as hard as the history of the people who built the stone walls and wooden houses and stood defiant before the storm.

As a journalist, my way was to lie along many a twisted road, Paris, Moscow, Casablanca, But there was one vast area I did not know, the southern part of my own country. So I was pleased to learn that I had been chosen for this journey through the South, a journey in search of facts, of information, of truth, perceived more easily perhaps because of my