Word: secretariats
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year-old United nations official, who received an honorary degree from the University in 1949, is at present Di- rector of the Division of Trusteeships in the Secretariat. He achieved world-wide fame and the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, 1948-9, as U.N. mediator in the Palestins dispute, a post he took over on the death of Geunt Floke-Bernadotte...
...Ralph Bunche serves on the U.N.'s Secretariat (in a top division director's post), but does not represent the U.S. Government...
...city. His idea of the capitol is a cone-shaped building like the Buddhist monuments which Mayer saw in the Indian town of Gaya, where Buddha is said to have received his enlightenment. Highest buildings of the city will be the five-story legislature and the three-story secretariat. Other buildings, to be constructed of local brick and sandstone, will be two stories high. Building the city will require 10,000 workmen and will cost 125 million rupees...
...story U.N. Secretariat building, on midtown Manhattan's East River shore was almost completed last week and w.ork was beginning on the 59-nation General Assembly hall that will snuggle at its base. Conservative critics had been hard on the tall Secretariat, had compared its marble and glass severity to that of a shoebox or a sandwich set on edge (TIME, June 13). They were going to be equally rocked by the swaybacked Assembly hall...
Both buildings had been designed by a distinguished international team of architects, headed by Wallace K. Harrison (who helped plan Rockefeller Center). When finished, the two would make a dramatic contrast, for while the Secretariat's skyscraper was high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof and sides of a low tarpaulin stretched from four corner posts-a difficult and perhaps inefficient construction to handle in stone. As ARCHITECTURAL FORUM put it, the Assembly building "marked an architectural shift-from emphasis on 'function' and structural logic to emphasis on form and the logic...