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...guests of Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, Kings, Presidents and other potentates met secretly in a UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser...
...Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO book Europe's Children, were compassionate shots of orphans in the rubble of post-World...
...career has not been just in observatories, operating telescopes, and looking at slides. He has seen a need for international co-operation in science, and joined in the fight to put the "S" for science, in UNESCO, and just after the war was among those who urged that Russia join the organization to promote international access to scientific information...
Official India had remained silent on Russian aggression in Hungary until November 6, while speaking out angrily and at length against the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt. Then, addressing UNESCO, Nehru denounced both aggressions, saying "human dignity and freedom have been outraged. He subsequently repeated this position, and it seemed reasonable that his country would join in U.N. condemnation of Soviet outrages...
Died. Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 63, scholarly Negro sociologist, longtime (1928-46) head of social sciences at Nashville's Fisk University, who was named a UNESCO delegate in 1946, became Fisk's first Negro president the same year; of a heart attack; in Louisville. Dr. Johnson attacked race hatred calmly and analytically, summed up the segregation issue: "... a struggle between those who believe in democracy and those...