Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club poured tea in a villa where according to legend Giovanni Boccaccio met one of the voluptuous heroines of his Decameron. An Italian movie company held a special screening of an animated cartoon called The Rose of Baghdad, which allegedly had been inspired by the work of UNESCO. No one was quite sure what Boccaccio or Baghdad had to do with the organization's work; but then...
...UNESCO had never been quite sure what its work was supposed...
...like her predecessor, she went to Oxford for her doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher College for women (Martha was a dean at Radcliffe). In recent years, while global-minded Martha Lucas became a UNESCO delegate and started a Junior Year Abroad program for Sweet Briar, global-minded Anne Pannell has spent much of her time arranging international student scholarships...
...President's Commission on Higher Education, supervised the compiling of its long-range, five-volume report which, among other things, strongly urges federal aid to education (TIME, Dec. 9, 1947 et seq.). When Zook leaves his job to write "a couple of books" and do some work for UNESCO's International Organization of Universities, Arthur Adams is sure to find that federal aid to education is still one of the A.C.E.'s most preoccupying issues. Said President-Designate Adams last week: "I'm not worried about federal aid, but I am worried about the arrangements under...
...cases back into the limelight and hashed over charges which had been hashed and rehashed (and in some cases, refuted) in the past. His tactics backfired during the testimony of his first victim-62-year-old Miss Dorothy Kenyon, a onetime Manhattan municipal judge and former U.S. delegate to UNESCO, where she consistently gave the Russian delegation the benefit of a sharp tongue...