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...UNESCO Committee on Monuments, Historical and Archaeological sites has chosen John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, as its Vice-Chairman. Brew, who is also director of the Peabody Museum, was elected at the recent week-long meeting of the committee in Paris...
Fischelis recently returned from a today organizational trip to Europe. While there, he met with officials of the High Commission, UNESCO, and University groups in Berlin, Geneva, Paris, and London...
...illiterate backlands of the small (574 sq. mi.) state of Delhi this winter, UNESCO and the Indian government have been working on a pilot education plan designed to bring literacy and modern farming methods to India's unlettered masses. Auto trailers, loaded with exhibits, stop in every village for a three-day show. The villagers get simple demonstrations of modern methods of poultry-breeding, cattle-raising and plowing. Moreover, though the trailer crews move on, they leave behind in each village a stack of books and a temporary squad of teachers. Aim: nothing less than 100% literacy among Delhi...
...lessons that UNESCO and the Indian government learn from this experiment in the next two years are to be applied elsewhere in India as quickly as the means allow. The guiding spirit of the whole plan: Duane Spence Hatch, 60, UNESCO adviser, an enthusiastic, hardworking American...
Last week Duane Hatch's work was still spreading: the Ceylon government is starting a similar project with UNESCO help, has asked for Double-Your-Money Hatch to head...