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UNITED NATIONS TO CELEBRATE FORTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
Posting Date: 10/20/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
To mark the occasion of the forty-fourth anniversary of the
United Nations, on 24 October 1989, the Department of Public
Information is arranging a "birthday party" for the
Organization. The Headquarters guided tour will be offered to
everyone free of charge, with special invitations extended to
groups of schoolchildren and senior citizens who normally can not
afford the ticket prices. Two of the school groups plan on
wearing national dress: children from the United Nations
International School and a class from P.S. 116, who will be
parading from their school on East 33rd Street up First Avenue
to the United Nations Visitors Entrance. It is not only
schoolchildren, however, who will be visiting Headquarters on
United Nations Day. Tours have been scheduled for groups as
diverse as the Inter-American Defense College, Phoenix House
Foundation, the Association of Negro Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, vice-presidents and other senior international
executives from IBM, as well as the Association of Former United
Nations Guides.
In addition to the tours (conducted "conveyor-belt" fashion in
the morning), the day should be particularly "colourful".
Crayons and markers are being donated so that children waiting
to go on tour will have a chance to write their own birthday
wishes to the United Nations. There will be balloons and gifts,
including a set of stamps from the United Nations Postal
Administration.
Of course, no birthday celebration would be complete without a
birthday cake and Restaurant Associates is providing one
especially for this anniversary. With a base of some six feet
by four feet, and four layers, the cake will be made using 44
pounds of butter, 44 pounds of almond paste, 44 pounds of
chocolate, 200 pounds of sugar, 200 pounds of flour, 1,200 eggs
and all topped with 44 white candles.
For the schoolchildren and the rest of the public, the day's
high-point will no doubt come at 11:30 a.m. as the cake is
wheeled into the General Assembly Public Lobby and everyone
joins in singing "Happy Birthday to the United Nations".
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