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...Study Abroad, Volume IV" is UNESCO's annual survey of international study opportunities. It lists more than 38,000 scholarships for the '51-52 school year and indicates many of those available...
Starck, a philologist and medievalist, has been on the Harvard faculty since 1920. He is editor of the publications of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on UNESCO Affairs...
...What, UNESCO wanted to know, do the people of eight countries think of other nations and of themselves? Pollsters, armed with pencils and a wide range of adjectives (samples: hardworking, conceited, cruel, brave, peace-loving), set out in the U.S., England, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Holland, Norway...
Delegates to a UNESCO conference on TV in Paris learned last week that 16 nations now have TV, and that eight others plan to join them by 1953. The U.S., with 17 million TV sets, has more than six times as many as the rest of the world; second place, Britain, with 1,350,000; third, Canada, with 90,000 (though it has no TV transmitters operating yet and must eavesdrop on U.S. telecasts). Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, France and the Soviet Union follow, with 30,000 to 50,000 sets each, with Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Argentina...
Nationally he has been president of a dozen scientific organizations, including Sigma Xi, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Involved in the charter writing of UNESCO, he has been a friend to countries entering the organization from infant beginnings and has helped some of them with their scientific works...