Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Assembly opened this week on the World's Fair site at Flushing, N. Y., with Harry Truman on hand to give it a Missouri-style pat on the back. The organizational matters which the Assembly will discuss at this session will collapse like cardboard if the fundamental disputes between East and West are not settled. Men of good will could only hope that the framework of the U.N. would be strengthened by the time peace is delivered...
Symbols of a prewar era that now seems as remote as the Gay Nineties, the Trylon & Perisphere are gone. But the World's Fair site at Flushing, N.Y. remains. There next week (Oct. 23) the U.N.'s 51 nations will open the first meeting of the General Assembly...
...agenda, from the Soviet demand for an accounting of all Allied troops in non-enemy countries to a proposed international children's fund (which U.N.'s Economic & Social Council had unanimously approved as "a noble goal"). Other problems: election of new members, choice of a permanent U.N. site, what to do with Franco Spain, a Russian-backed move for compulsory repatriation of refugees. Before he is through, many a delegate will look longingly around the Fair site for the vanished Aquacade, kootch dancers-and parachute jump...
Selecting Philips Brooks House as the site of their forthcoming University blood drive on November 12 and 13, Charles I. Dwindell, Cambridge blood donor chairman, and Mrs. Mary Baker, field supervisor of the University blood program, met last night with Ray Shiff, chairman of the University blood donor committee, to plan the new, Red Cross-sponsored state drive for blood...
...good character of the Villagers, Mr. Taft is praying that no felonies occur at Harvardevens until this knotty legal problem is worked out, since it is reasonably certain that neither Shirley, nor the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, nor the U.S. Army (which surrendered its rights to the site originally) has any power to arrest anyone in the Village. In an emergency Mr. Taft is prepared. He plans to pin on a shiny badge which declares him to be an officer of the law in Shirley, and inveigle the offender outside the limits of the Village. "Then," says Mr. Taft...