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After countless sketches, Designers Zehrfuss, Nervi and Breuer had hit on an unusual, Y-shaped Secretariat, gracefully modern yet low enough (seven stories) to fit into a new site near the Eiffel Tower without overshadowing the classical architecture of neighboring buildings. The new plan calls for a building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates...
...wore water-resistant coveralls, a miner's head lamp, strong cleated boots, and a crash helmet for protection against falling rocks. It took him 90 minutes to get down, dangling in parachute harness, spinning round & round, but when he touched bottom he was farther down than the Eiffel Tower is up. Three other spelunkers followed him. They established a camp in the big vault, perhaps 900 feet long, half as wide, and 300 feet high. They explored the even deeper caverns that sloped away from the shaft. They threw yellow-green dye into a rushing underground river to test...
Between the scenes of a police psychiatrist, Frank Faylen, lecturing on the need for in bigger and better mental institutions to care for perverts, are some of the best moments of chair-edge suspense Hollywood has come up with since The Man on the Eiffel Tower. The story is told through the movements, looks, and bits of talk of Arthur Franz, the sniper, and not by tiresome, obvious explanations...
Before the paint was dry on the $3,000, 000 temporary new U.N. building, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
...gold is safely snatched, melted down into Eiffel Tower paperweights, and shipped to France. But there half a dozen of them are sold, by mistake, to a party of British schoolgirls. Guinness & Holloway, fearful that the souvenirs may get back to the baffled authorities, chase after the little girls and then, in turn, become the object of a nationwide manhunt, slapsticky with pratfalls, hairbreadth escapes and colliding police cars. Highlight: Guinness eluding his pursuers by fading invisibly into a throng of Britons, all identical in sack coats, bowler hats and umbrellas...