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Though few U.S. citizens, perhaps, confuse UNESCO with Nabisco, not many could tell you what UNESCO...
...Pronounced Eek-o-sock or Eck-o-sock, optionally, and not to be confused with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). UNESCO is a semi-autonomous U.N. body which will probably have head quarters in Paris...
Olivier will play Lear through Christmas, with a week's break in November, when he takes it to Paris as part of the UNESCO celebration. There will be no New York trip this year for the Old Vic, which will be busy: 1) building a new and ideally designed theater on the ruins of its blitzed birthplace; 2) starting a school of the theater, which by 1948 expects to be ready to accept American and other foreign students...
...George Zook realized a lobbyist's prize dream: he presided at the first meeting of a 30-man National Commission on Higher Education, appointed by President Truman to find out what is wrong with U.S. college education. At the White House he watched the President sign the UNESCO resolution, which he had backed...
...aides, who prefer to avoid the arena themselves, spend a lot of time on the long-distance telephone-pressuring educators to pressure Washington. Their methods seem to work. In the 79th Congress, which adjourned last week, Zook & Co. went to bat for eight bills, made five hits (UNESCO, the Fulbright bill for war-surplus scholarships, the Mead bill to house G.I. students, Naval R.O.T.C. legislation, the Selective Service compromise on 19-year-olds...