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Goslin left his position in Pasadena because of local pressure opposing his introduction of more progressive trends in the public schools. He was a member of the U.S. National Committee on UNESCO, and consultant to the Phi Delta Kappa Commission on Public Education...
...should like to express my feelings of regret that editorial demands made it impossible for you to include his most recent achievement as chairman of the American delegation to the UNESCO-sponsored International Conference of Artists held in Venice September 1952, where he served brilliantly not only for the delegation but as rapporteur for the conference...
Reports Baker: "Wilder took mornings for work on a UNESCO report. We had lunch together, finding some quiet Stube where we could sit long after other guests had departed, while he talked and I scribbled, or prodded...
Feraud, who supervises language instruction in the high schools of Paris, was sent to this country by UNESCO to collect information on visual aids as they are used in American secondary schools and colleges...
Last week UNESCO began printing money in an international currency all its own-the Unum (value $5). Unums (for UNESCO Unit of Money) are not real money in the sense that they can buy either guns, butter or trips abroad. But each of the 130,000-Unums-worth of bills (in one, two-and ten-Unum denominations) printed in Paris last week, and backed by UNESCO's own dollar reserve, will be worth its face value in exchange for books, films and scientific equipment in any UNESCO country...