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...Federal Government." As the hearings went on, a troop of witnesses added other bits and pieces. One denounced the Kinsey reports, which had been partially financed by the Rockefeller Foundation; another blasted Studebaker's Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, former president of the Ford Foundation, for backing UNESCO. Finally, last week, fed up with such charges, supported, he felt, largely by quotations taken out of context, Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne L. Hays decided to teach the committee a lesson as to just how silly its proceedings...
...schools are concerned, Los Angeles is not noted as a city of peace and quiet. Not so long ago, right-wing critics raised such a fuss that the schools dropped a special UNESCO-sponsored study program. Later, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard was forced to turn down a Ford Foundation grant for the recruiting of teachers because the same sort of critics charged that the foundation was following the Communist line...
...expanding on the work of UNESCO, said that this group has used science to work for peace by providing scientists from different nations with symposia to discuss common problems, through international projects...
...only group with an interest in movies as an art form. The United Nations Council's Unesco Division-the "C" is for "cultural"- also has an interest in international art forms. Although the Council has seen fit to withdraw temporarily from the film business the UNESCO Division is currently the sponsor of a folk dance series-and is not making a penny out of it. Sincerely, Samuel Olevsen...
...budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...