Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Paris last week came word that UNESCO has commissioned six of the world's leading artists to adorn its new headquarters. One of the biggest commissions, for a conference room mural covering 1,100 sq. ft., was by no means likely to please some of UNESCO's more vociferous U.S. critics; it went to Millionaire Communist Pablo Picasso...
...artists' contribution to the curved concrete structure in Paris will be as international as UNESCO. Britain's Sculptor Henry Moore will do a figure for the main piazza, and French Jean Arp will do a bas-relief for the library. Spain's Joan Miro will also do a mural, and Manhattan's Isamu Noguchi will contribute a couple of oriental gardens complete with his own abstract sculptures and an Alexander Calder mobile. In addition, two leading designers, Herbert Bayer of the U.S. and Nizzoli of Italy, have been commissioned to handle interior design, with an area...
Throughout the world, more people are reading newspapers than ever before. Last week a UNESCO survey, "World Communications," totted up the world's daily circulation: 262 million, a sizable increase. The most impressive gains came in backward countries, where the drive against illiteracy has brought newspapers to African jungle villages and remote South Sea islands. The U.S. had the biggest slice of the world's daily circulation -more than 55 million-but in printing 344 daily copies per 1,000 inhabitants, it trailed behind Britain (609 per 1,000) and nine other countries, including Japan (with...
...letter asked Clive R. Grey, NSA Vice-President on International Affairs, to publicize their complaint through the international press, inform UNESCO and the Commission on Human Rights, and send an investigating commission of the International Student Conference to Paraguay...
...Spain." Some pamphlets urged workers to stage a demonstration in mid-April. Rebellious Madrid University students who had demonstrated against the government of Dictator Francisco Franco in February (TIME, Feb. 20) planned new protests of their own, timed to break out just as Madrid played international host to a UNESCO meeting...