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When the 100-man United States Commission for UNESCO (U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) begins its annual session today in the Copley Plaza Hotel, Robert Smith 2G will take part on a full voting basis as the representative of the National Student Association...
Smith won the commission seat one year ago at the time of his election to an NSA vice-presidency. Last month the NSA Madison Convention renamed him for the coming UNESCO term and the commission's nominating committee promptly placed him on the slate of six it will push for vacant executives committee spots...
Yesterday, Smith said that the UNESCO meetings, which start this morning and continue through Wednesday, will formulate "advice for the American delegation to the general conference of UNESCO in Beirut in November." All business is open to the public...
High points, Smith thought, will come Monday afternoon, in the workshop discussions of various parts of the UNESCO program, and on Tuesday afternoon, in the plonary session's consideration of major policy questions...
MacLeish's job with UNESCO ended last year and he retired, at 55, to the life of "a private citizen and a practicing poet." The results, so far as verse is concerned, are certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something...