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...Chapman, who is president of the International Central Organizing Commission for the International Geophysical Year (a worldwide UNESCO enterprise) is now at the State University of Iowa, where study of the upper atmosphere is an important specialty. He hopes that the varied information about the earth that is now being gathered by 35 nations, including the U.S.S.R., will verify his theories about the earth's ring. To understand it better will help in dealing with the magnetic storms that mess up communications. When and if space flight comes, says Dr. Chapman, the ionized ring can be studied at close...
...some very real accomplishments to its credit. Through functional agencies, such as the World Health Organization and UNESCO, it has achieved a degree of international co-operation never before seen on such a scale in peacetime. And even as a propaganda forum, it has at least given clearer focus to the problems that divide the world...
...half-time shifts." If all that were not enough, said Superintendent Martin Essex of Lakewood, Ohio, teachers are being frightened into a "sterile education." After questioning 522 other superintendents for a special report, Essex found a growing fear of such subjects as religion, sex education, Communism, "socialized" medicine and UNESCO. "The American teacher has voluntarily censored herself. This is out of fear of reprisals . . . It's not bad to be afraid, but to accept it as normal is dangerous...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...
...Ford Foundation grant for a special teacher-training program to alleviate L.A.'s perennial shortage, the Herald & Express erupted once again. The whole idea, the paper grumbled, seemed to be some sort of plot. Had not the foundation's former President Paul Hoffman favored UNESCO? Was Stoddard thus merely using the grant "to swing UNESCO . . . back" into the schools again? "Pink Socialism." cried the paper-and Stoddard was forced to drop the grant...