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...world-shaking meeting began, UNO seemed oddly like a setting hen with a nest in a threshing machine. It had a place out of the rain, a good food supply and a spot to brood on its clutch of world problems. But UNO seemed almost as preoccupied with keeping its beak out of the big city's machinery as in global meditation...
Coldly considered, The Bronx's Hunter College, where UNO's delegates convened this week, was probably as good a place as any to bring a world problem. The echoing college gymnasium had been equipped with a false ceiling, a false floor, and paneled walls. Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality...
Bilingual Ladies. By the time UNO's delegates arrived, the college cafeteria was ready to feed the men of all nations at a reasonable price (lunch: 50?). A Miss de Vienne Blanc had recruited a secretarial staff, and had enthusiastically announced that many of the girls were bilingual and all of good moral character. Said she, proudly: "We have no tramps here." A caterer named Lee Harding had spent four days & nights seeking a bartender capable of a high, international type of work, had found a man he hoarsely described as "one of the greatest bar characters...
...despite these comforts and conveniences, UNO-in-The Bronx lacked a certain cloistered air ordinarily associated with world conferences, whether held in field headquarters or marble halls. The 42-acre Hunter College campus was pleasant and green, but its turreted granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for educating young females. The UNO council chamber had been built in only 15 days and still looked, somehow, as though an irascible electrician might crawl out from beneath a desk. There were blackboards in the halls, a strong smell of paint in the air, and neat signs which still read "Corrective...
Miss Sergio, who had spent the morning at Hunter College at the UNO Security Council, said, "At the UNO his morning, men were saying things that might very easily bring war, might at least make Russia war out of the UNO...