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...years, has a deep interest in foreign affairs, is president of Chicago's International House. A former state commander of the American Legion, he worked hard and effectively in the Eisenhower campaign. After the election, he asked his friend Everett Dirksen to sponsor him for an appointment to UNESCO. Dirksen agreed, and things looked set, particularly because Shillinglaw was also an old friend of Under Secretary of State Donold Lourie...
...years U.N.'s poor relationship, UNESCO, has been trying without much success to build itself a permanent home in Paris. Still cramped into two converted hotels, UNESCO has twice drawn up plans, only to have them fail. The most recent attempt, by France's Bernard Zehr-fuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, was for a tall, slab-sided structure to be built near the Bois de Boulogne (TIME, Oct. 13). Paris' scornful verdict: "Notre Dame of the Radiators." Last week UNESCO proposed another solution to the problem of a modern...
...unusual, Y-shaped Secretariat, gracefully modern yet low enough (seven stories) to fit into a new site near the Eiffel Tower without overshadowing the classical architecture of neighboring buildings. The new plan calls for a building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates' patio, and off to one side a squat conference building with...
Next, and possibly the toughest step for purse-poor UNESCO: getting the general conference of member nations to approve the plan at the meeting this July, vote the $7,000,000 necessary to build the permanent home...
After Collier's last month ran an article titled "I Was Called Subversive," the magazine was pelted with complaints. They leveled charges of "pro-Communism" at Collier's and at the author, Mrs. Dorothy Frank, a California housewife, who had defended UNESCO courses in Los Angeles public schools. Some at the same time demanded that Collier's (circ. 3,100,000) fire Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon, who was charged with "a long record of Red-front affiliations." The two complaints had no direct connection, since Moon had nothing to do with Collier's buying...