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...same time, informed quarters said the United States delegation and probably France and China were prepared to support a Ukrainian proposal that the 1947 session of the Assembly beheld in Europe. The Ukrainian resolution, last item on the agenda, was said to have a fair chance of approval. Its acceptance would not affect the assembly's earlier decision to make its permanent headquarters in New York City...
...Each His Own, a marked withdrawal from the brave notes of The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which opened the first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal while the rest of the troubled planet was either upside down or misshapen...
...account of the witnesses: "... They [the plates] have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man. . . . And we declare that an Angel of God came down from Heaven, and he brought and laid before our eyes that we beheld and saw the plates and the engravings thereon...
...Guadalupe, long ago, a peon named Juan Diego beheld a miraculous vision of the Virgin. Near that spot last week, a visionary Mexican industrialist, Antonio Ruiz Galindo, was starting an experiment that may likewise prove miraculous: a factory community, La Ciudad Industrial (the Industrial City). Mexican leaders and U.S. businessmen interested in Mexico are watching closely...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod witnessed the faces of men fighting and dying on New Guinea, Attu, Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa. Last week he beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...