Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern technology is threatening to destroy the remains of 5,000 years of cultural history unless a UNESCO comission headed by John O. Brew, Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, can roll back the waters of the Nile...
...necessities or reasonable rewards of life have eluded Sculptor Moore. Always a good businessman, Moore is selling as fast as he cares to produce, at prices ranging from about $1,000 for foot-long figures to about $15,000 for each of five bronze casts being made of his UNESCO working model. He has a new car (a Rover) in the garage, a secretary to handle his correspondence, and a 13-year-old daughter, Mary, that he dotes...
Icebergs & Porpoises. Scholar Spilhaus is a world authority on meteorology and oceanography, and a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year. As a member of the executive board of UNESCO three years ago, he made-only half facetiously-some arresting proposals: hauling Antarctic icebergs to water the Mojave desert, dyeing the ocean to control absorption of solar heat and thereby curb hurricanes, training porpoises to shepherd fish...
...been tapped by Mayor Robert Wagner to act as New York City's High Commissioner at trade fairs in Poznan, Zagreb, Vienna, Paris. The U.S. Department of Commerce took Winston on as special adviser for trade fairs, and last year Winston was U.S. Special Delegate to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris...
...given scholarships to more than 1,200 students from 67 countries. A neighborhood club at heart. Rotary would like, as Harold Thomas puts it, to "make the whole world a neighborhood, and bring it even more bridges to friendship." It set up the cultural exchange group that later became UNESCO, settled a 150-year-old boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru...