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Facing up to the publicity, John manfully discussed the U.N. with Under Secretary Andrew W. Cordier, got a private tour of the executive offices, finally crept back to Manhasset High. When the school told her about her son's "fantastic excuse" for cutting classes, John's mother called it "absolutely hilarious." But, she added sternly, no more going on the hook for John...
...precarious Congo operation was being run last week by the men who had been Hammarskjold's chief assistants-the U.S.'s Under Secretaries Andrew Cordier and Ralph Bunche. India's Under Secretary Chakravarthi Narasimhan-now dubbed the "Congo Club." By vote of the General Assembly. West Africa's Sierra Leone (pop. 2,500,000; area 27,940 sq. mi.) became the U.N.'s 100th member, just before the Security Council settled down near by to fight over Russia's package deal on two other membership applications, those of Mauritania and Outer Mongolia-a knotty...
...shown its helplessness there. Nikita Khrushchev was not coming this time (he sent Gromyko instead), but the Soviet Union's vituperative attacks on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, and its near refusal to recognize his existence, demoralized everyone. Said one staffer: "Everybody here from Executive Assistant Andrew Cordier on down wants to resign. The Congo has done...
...started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with him a 19-year-old "admiral" decked out in a musical comedy sailor suit. As Dumas wrote to a friend: "The charming little creature is in the habit of becoming a woman at night." Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand." Forgetting the Orient, Dumas and the expectant admiral hurried to the great patriot's aid and helped storm Palermo, Dumas wearing "an immense straw hat with three plumes...
...Here is a young man, reaching for expression in a field largely unknown and presumably forbidden to him," said Cordier. The paintings indicated little more than a novice's groping attempts at abstract art, but they showed a high degree of artistic consciousness. They also gave proof that no matter how tightly sealed off Russian painters may be, there is, as one Parisian artgoer put it, "only one cosmos...