"He told me that 'there is nothing else to do here but work,'" Lorenz said. The Experimenter concluded, however, that this unusual propensity for work is not a common characteristic of the Yugoslavs, but a trait peculiar to his host.

During his stay there, Lorenz was given a room to himself in the five-room apartment. Usally that room served as living-dining room for the family. The American often left his door open to encourage the rest of the family to share the room with him. But his over-gracious hosts simply shut the door again.

Lorenz described the apartment as relatively well-off and modern. There was a toilet and running water, although no hot water. During the winter, a log heater warms the apartment.

Several of the Yugoslavs who played host to Experimenters were engineers. They had taken in an American primarily to improve their English, and had little concept of the aims of the Experiment, Lorenz said. It is often the case that American Experimenters are faced with the problem of explaining the Experiment itself as well as explaining America to their foreign hosts.

The Kamakovskys and one other host family were neither Communist nor anti-Communist, but right in the middle. Like many Yugoslavs, Lorenz said, they are "able to sway with the wind."

In general, Lorenz said, the Yugoslavs are used to keeping their political views personal. Mr. Kamakovsky carried this to the extent of seeming to have few political views at all. He would tell Lorenz, "Two jobs are too much for a person. I cannot be an engineer and a politician at the same time."

While the Yugoslavs seemed reluctant to discuss politics with their fellow countrymen, Lorenz found that many of them were anxious to talk politics with Americans as a vent for pent-up feelings.

The Silent World

Here, however, he noted a difference in attitude between adults and youths. The young people would talk anywhere. But their elders were more cautious about secrecy. Lorenz said, "Mrs. K. always put her fingers to her lips as if to say, 'Don't repeat a word of this.'"

Experimenting in a communist country offered particular opportunities for interviews with government and religious personnel. Meetings were arranged for the Experimenters with the head of the Communist Party in the province of Bosnia-Hercegovina, with labor and union leaders, with the head of public information and education, with the adviser to the agricultural cooperatives, and with religious officials.

The interviews with these dignitaries varied, Lorenz said, but "on the whole they were talking right to us." During the 25-day homestay, the group also toured many factories and attended social functions given in their honour by mayors and other government officers.

An 18-day group troup took the Experimenters and some of their Yugoslav hosts through Macedonia to Lake Chrid, a resort area on the Albanian border; then along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic to Dubrounik.

When most Experiment groups travel one young person from each host family accompanies the Americans. But since only five young Yugoslavs could make the trip, four of the older members of the families went along with the group.

The Experimenters traveled by public transportation, which Lorenz described as "amazing" in its inadequacy. The trains are practically freight cars with coal smoke blowing in open windows, only wooden benches to sit on, and peasants standing in the aisles. The rail-roads sell about three times as many tickets as seats.

Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing."