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...week's end the President had signed into law more than 50 bills pouring in from a homeward-bound Congress. Some of them, like the bills for the domestic control of atomic energy and for U.S. participation in UNESCO, were of first importance. At least one-the much-needed bill for congressional reorganization-was a welcome surprise to the U.S. people as well as the President. Others were out-&-out pork-barreling...
This afternoon the topic before the conference will be, "Tomorrow's Elementary School and Its Challenge to School Administrative Leadership." Wednesday's meeting will discuss "The Nation, the States and the Schools," and Representative Merrow will address the group on "UNESCO: A Challenge to Educational Leadership," in the evening session...
...Authors. One co-author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
...UNESCO, Sigma XI hopes, will be a coordinating, rather than an operating group, planned to simplify the fraternity of specialists in diverse fields and to act as a body for the study of educational and allied problems on behalf of international cooperation. The UNESCO charter, as yet unaccepted by Congress, is promulgated to allow science and education to keep pace with the general trend toward international unity...