Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY has been in business five years, seen its output multiply fivefold. Its famed UNESCO series of outsize volumes in color now numbers 13. Graphic's list includes such eye-bugging revelations of out-of-the-way art as Ravenna Mosaics. Outstanding this season: Etruscan...
...next year Appel left Holland. Now, married to a Dutch model, sought after by collectors, he prospers mightily in Paris, has been accepted as an officer in good standing in the hierarchy of international expressionism. His work hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. and last year UNESCO commissioned him to decorate the restaurant walls of its new Paris headquarters building...
...save the endangered monuments, Egypt's Minister of Culture, Sarwat Okasha, appealed to the world's universities and foundations. Getting little response, Minister Okasha turned to UNESCO for assistance because the cost of preserving the treasures would be "exceptionally great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples...
...money be found? Even a UNESCO spokesman seemed dubious because, as he put it, the only recompense would be "a few priceless treasures of history, perhaps not enough to attract the necessary funds...
Brew, just back from a three week trip to Egypt, termed the magnitude of the problem tremendous. While there, he was head of a special 24 member UNESCO commission of archaeologists, architects, and engineers to advise on feasible methods of salvage...