Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enter first puritan: Harry Summers, an American major, who returns to liberated Rome after World War II as an art expert for UNESCO. Enter second puritan: his wife Jane, a Roman Catholic but, as she comes from Philadelphia, a puritan nonetheless. These two kill their principles to make a Roman honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate...
...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
Geologist Lee Merriam Talbot, 25 is an animal man by heritage: his grandfather, C. Hart Merriam, was the first chief of the U.S. Biological Survey. So when the Survival Service of the International Union for the Protection of Nature, formed under UNESCO sponsorship, offered him a job, Talbot snapped...
...UNESCO's main task has been not to foster a notion of world citizenship, but to send educators into areas of the world where school standards are far below normal. UNESCO also publishes books and pamphlets which take up educational and scientific problems on a world calc. Both of these activities have been investigated many times-not only by the Legion's special committee, but by citizens whom President Eiscnhower named and by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In all three instances, the groups cleared UNESCO of going beyond its legitimate function...
Actually, many people in other nations criticize UNESCO for trying to Americanize the world. Evidently the Legion overlooks criticisms of this kind and instead overrules without any debate it own committee, headed by a former National Commander. These antics prompted former President Truman to say that the Legion had gone "haywire" in the last three or four years. More seriously, the Legion has begun its barrage at a time when UNESCO seemed, at last, free from surprise attacks...