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...career as schoolmaster to the world, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization early discovered that ideas could transcend almost anything but foreign exchange. In those days, even with UNESCO's help, a student in a soft-currency nation who wanted to sample hard-currency wisdom in printed form had to negotiate with a staggering array of government agencies, import license bureaus, customs men and international bankers. Four years ago UNESCO tried printing exchangeable coupons, but found itself still hamstrung by the differing currencies of its member nations...
...will include news of the Patzcuraro project in Mexico which the New England regional organization will aid under UNESCO direction. The project involves group planning for an underdeveloped area. It aims to train local teachers in working on the problem of illiteracy...
Said Pierre Auger, head of UNESCO's natural sciences department: "If we knew just what the machine was going to produce, we wouldn't be building it. We're like explorers going out into an ocean. We know something of what lies ahead, but we do not know all that we are going to find." The great machine, Auger thinks, will certainly create protons, neutrons and various types of mesons...
There will be a few important differences. Where U.N.'s skyscraper slab rises 39 stories, UNESCO's is planned for only 16; where the U.N. spent $67.5 million, UNESCO expects to spent $7,678,000. Instead of adopting air-conditioning throughout, as U.N. did, UNESCO plans to keep cool by using blue glass sun screens down the south and east sides, with a sprinkler system to sluice dirt and dust off the glass. Instead of sitting on a solid, enclosed base, UNESCO will rest on ground-floor stilts such as France's famed Le Corbusier tried...
Next step will be to get member nations to vote the money. For purse-poor UNESCO, this may take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne; but Parisian reaction cannot be taken for granted. Said French Architect Zehrfuss: "They're noted bellyachers...