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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on May 16, 2004. The length of the article is 615 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jaime Torres Bodet: a treinta años de su fallecimiento.(autor)(Biografía)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 16, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 50Issue: 2657Page: 66(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Julian Huxley, Irina Bokova, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Luther H. Evans, Koïchiro Matsuura, Jaime Torres Bodet, Amadou-Mahtar M'bow, René Maheu, Vittorino Veronese, John Wilkinson Taylor. Excerpt:Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (born 1921) is a Senegalese educator. Born in Dakar , M'bow served in France and North Africa during World War II after volunteering for the French army. After the end of the war he studied geography at the Sorbonne University in Paris . M'bow began working for UNESCO in 1953 and was the director-general from 1974 to 1987, being the first black African to head a United Nations support organisation. He called the Commission over the Problems of Communication which delivered the MacBride Report (so called after its president, Seán MacBride ) in May 1980, supporting international claims for a New World Information and Communication Order . References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at At the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia in 2007. Federico Mayor Zaragoza (b. 1934 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. Mayor obtained a doctorate in pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1958. In 1963 he became professor of biochemistry at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Granada , and in 1968 was elected rector of that university, a post he held until 1972. The following year he was appointed professor in biochemistry at the Community of Madrid . In 1974 he co-founded the Severo Ochoa Centre of Molecular Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and of the High Council for Scientific Research. Political posts Mayor's political postings have included: undersecretary of Education and Science in the Spanish Government (1974 1975) , UCD dep... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 515 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Vocación libertaria: Jaime Torres Bodet.(educadores)(TT: Libertarian vocation: Jaime Torres Bodet.)(TA: educators)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Gabriel Careaga
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48Issue: 2550Page: 34(1)

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Bodet was born and died in Mexico City (1902-1974). He studied at the School for Techers, the National Preparatory School, the School of Jurisprudence and the School of High Studies of the University of Mexico. In 1921, he was appointed private secretary of the rector of the National University of Mexico, José Vasconcelos. He directed, together with Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, the literary magazine Flange (1922-1923). He was the head of the Department of Libraries of the Secretariat of Public Education (1922-1924). He taught French literature at the School of High Studies (1925-1928). He co-directed the magazine Contemporáneos (1928-1931). He became a member of the Mexican Diplomatic Service in 1929, and remained active in diplomatic and governmental affairs until the 1960's when he served a second time as secretary of Public Education from December 1, 1958 to November 30, 1964. And above all, he wrote. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories, essays, forewords, literary studies, and translations. ... Read more