Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college students who took the draft deferment test last spring, 37% flunked, will be liable for service whenever their draft boards want them. ¶ After studying the compulsory education laws of 48 nations, UNESCO announced that British and Tasmanian children are required to spend more time in school (ten years) than any others. Next: U.S. children, who in most states spend nine. Last in line: Indonesian children, who don't have to go to school at all. ¶ The University of North Carolina, overwhelmed with protests, changed its mind about exiling its Negro graduate students to end-zone seats...
...UNESCO's jobs is to keep track of the books that get translated from one language to another. The latest UNESCO sum-up, for 1949, shows which U.S. authors of all time were doing the biggest translation business around the world that year. The leaders...
Department, of Natural Sciences, UNESCO Paris, France...
Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 45, "perfect wife" of the movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...
...UNESCO Committee on Monuments, Historical and Archaeological sites has chosen John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, as its Vice-Chairman. Brew, who is also director of the Peabody Museum, was elected at the recent week-long meeting of the committee in Paris...