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Humphrey's involvement in world affairs led to his appointment by Eisenhower as a delegate to the U.N., the World Health Organization and UNESCO. He traveled extensively, attended the Geneva disarmament talks, had his celebrated 81-hour Kremlin exchange with Nikita Khrushchev in 1958 and became chairman of the Sen ate disarmament subcommittee, whose recommendations helped pave the way for the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty. Appointed majority whip...
SENEGAL Teams of one Volunteer, Senegalese male nurse, and a Senegalese tarian will work in rural areas, to improve nutritional standards, sanitary practices, and teach hygienic methods of food growing and handling. They will be technically backstopped by UNESCO...
...seven weeks, Beebe will serve as special consultant to India's Education Commission. The former chairman of UNESCO's executive board is the third member of the Ed School Faculty to serve on the commission...
...official most directly concerned told the U.N. General Assembly that massive drives against illiteracy have tended to spread money and effort too thinly, thus failing to concentrate on those people most eager to learn. Rene Maheu, an ever-optimistic former French philosophy professor and now Director General of UNESCO, reported on "a turning point in the struggle against illiteracy," whereby in 1966 UNESCO will organize at least eight pilot projects stressing selectivity. The United Nations Special Fund is expected to contribute $24 million to the program. The new African state of Mali, for example, wants to make 100,000 cotton...
Under the sponsorship of UNESCO, scientists from more than 70 nations began this year to pool their research talents and facilities in the International Hydrological Decade. IHD scientists are already establishing a worldwide net work of hydrology stations to map climate conditions, to study precipitation, ground-water levels and stream ecology, and to measure water's capacity for self-purification. Says Michel Batisse, a French engineer who heads the IHD: "It may turn out that the most important results of the IHD will not be strictly scientific but the side effects. For the first time, and forever, modern civilization...