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...York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has added verbosely flamboyant reporter-columnists, 'ILo Jimmy Breslin, whose tough-guy sentimentality is often self-parodying. O'Neill just hopes it will be possible to provide more personal reporting without reviving that curse of the 1960s, opinionated advocacy journalism...
...Secretariat will open next month, doubling the present space of the Palais des Nations; one of the Secretariat's prime responsibilities is to keep the printing presses, which turn out more than 250 million pages a year, running. Two steel-and-glass headquarters, for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and a 1,200-car garage are also being built...
...addition to ILO and ITU, Geneva is the home of such prestigious U.N. agencies as the World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Last week the branch of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), Paris-based since 1946, disclosed plans to move its headquarters to Geneva by next summer. Soon to come is a helter-skelter maze of smaller programs, ranging from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to the International Bureau for Declaration of Death, which identifies victims of civil wars and natural disasters...
...have become increasingly concerned about their own relevance and are furiously leaping from one new issue to the next. This year they are battling fiercely among themselves for pieces of such issues as environment, population, pollution, drugs and disease. "We have already studied occupational cancer very seriously," says an ILO spokesman. "In the fall we will discuss multinational companies. It will be a very big study. We are also very concerned about migrant workers. Do you know about migrant workers?" There is talk that next year the General Assembly may create a general protein fund, naming a special coordinator...
Worry. Only one Geneva agency has ever gone so far as to commit itself to management analysis; the study was done by McKenzie & Co., a New York management consultant firm. The ILO, which was founded in 1919, is still a bit unnerved by the experience. "It left us a house divided between two cultures," says an ILO administrator, "one following the new ways and the other continuing to do what it had always done. It also left us feeling that we aren't a family business any longer. They asked us questions about what we thought our purpose...