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Unmentored by adult-level leadership in U.S. education, the founding delegates of the new National Student Association have won a notable first success: UNESCO has awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...
...well as in relief to the impoverished students of Europe. Cooperation with such agencies as World Student Service Fund, International Student Service, "Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel during the summer months-the commission has been instructed to begin negotiations immediately for low-cost transportation on special Maritime Commission...
...have been impressed by the standards and achievements of the Seminar. American educational authorities studying European conditions have come to Salzburg to observe and have left impressed both by the administrative achievements of the sturdy few who carried the load and by the kind of education being offered here. UNESCO has just appointed an official observer for the Seminar...
...Albuquerque, Dr. T. M. Pearce of the University of New Mexico predicted that the atomic age would make English a language of acronyms-words formed from the initial letters of other words. Samples: snafu (and variations), UNESCO, AWOL...
...UNESCO (designed to achieve peace by its influence on the minds of men) studied the jungles of the Amazon basin and other interesting matters...