National Affairs: UNO-in-The Bronx

Though the Borough of The Bronx already boasted the Yankee Stadium and the world's biggest zoo, New Yorkers toiled like stage hands to fix it up with a world capital as well. The finished product was flossier, in a restrained, global way, than either El Morocco or Club "21," and could be reached by both the I.R.T. and Independent subways. But any resemblance to Versailles, The Hague or Geneva was purely coincidental.

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...

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