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...loyal staff of officers around me. My biggest problem is to keep them inactive. Every time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still has its old emblem-a torch, surrounded by maple leaves and topped by a Canadian beaver-and its motto: Serviam (I shall serve). When N.U.P. comes into the open, blue shirts presumably will again be the uniform. This time there will be no swastika shoulder patches...
...last got a symbol of unity: a worldwide flag. At Lake Success, the U.N. Assembly's Legal Committee took five minutes to approve a secretariat design: a white polar projection map of the earth's seas and continents on a smoke-blue background. As with the U.N. emblem adopted last year, the earth was shown girdled with olive branches. For the present, nobody would be required to pledge allegiance to the flag. But it would be handy for identifying U.N. outposts and traveling commissions. Once the flag has been formally adopted by the Assembly, the secretariat promised, instructions...
Snowy-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, the crotchety old dean of U.S. architects, is no conservative, but he too had an objection: the plan suffered from "skyscraperism . . . a sinister emblem for world power. . . . Grass the ground," ordered Wright, "where the proposed U.N. skyscraper would stand...
...empire. As powerful as any film enterprise in the world, his empire comprises over 60% of Britain's theaters and 50% of its moviemaking. It holds in fee tributary production, distribution and exhibition companies in Canada, South Africa, Australia and the U.S. The sun never sets on the emblem of his pictures: a gilded muscleman (ex-Boxer "Bombardier" Wells) swatting an eight-foot gong...
Spaghetti & Tea. Part of the reason for the Communist success was furnished by Count Ernesto Perrier, leader of Sicily's badly shaken right-wing coalition. Acknowledging his side's insufficient concern with the people's urgent economic needs, he said grimly: "Our emblem should have been a plate of spaghetti with a crown...