Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems in painting!" Such rumblings give the art world warning that the volcano is still alive, may erupt again before the world's astonished eyes. The most demanding commission of his career is now directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver shot sounds, the old master can be depended on to keep the world's eyes focused on the tip of his brush...
With effective assistance from Houston's strong corps of Minute Women, the right-wingers have waged a continuous war against teaching about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept...
Today no alumni are in greater demand than Geneva's. "There are such a multitude of conferences," says Dean Stelling-Michaud, "that every day we witness a new international organization of some kind." When UNESCO decided to set up its Russian-language section, it asked the school to do the job. When Aramco and Saudi Arabian officials got bogged down in a Geneva conference last year, they called on the school for English-Arabic translators to help the negotiators out. In a sense, says Stelling-Michaud, the Geneva alumnus is rapidly becoming the indispensable international man. "In European organizations...
Jack London, who is the most popular and widely translated U.S. author in Russia and Iron Curtain countries (according to UNESCO), first became famous just after the turn of the century with three stories-two about dogs and one about a man. They closely resembled each other. Buck was a Saint Bernard and the dog in all the world least likely ever to be drawn by James Thurber, who found life too tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told of a wolf that left Alaska to become civilized...
...Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO book Europe's Children, were compassionate shots of orphans in the rubble of post-World...