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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...
...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...
...Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
...were prepared to fight it out on Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh's line if it took all summer-and next winter too. But it might not take that long. Things looked better, though not perfect, as the UNO Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding," she cried, and began to shove the pots around...
...committee table in a light-paneled room that had been a basketball court two weeks before. Before the 51-minute opening session was half over, Andrei Gromyko was reading the paper. He looked up startled when the audience laughed at a high-flown French reference to le President du Bronx...