Word: dag
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Sugarplums, College. It began last month when the Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place...
...Agda Rossel, head of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations, will deliver the first annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Sanders Theatre...
...late Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the U.N., said at Mrs. Roosevelt's 70th birthday party in 1954: "Millions of people all over the world think of (her) as their friend...
Going on sale this week: a 4? commemorative postage stamp honoring the late Dag Hammarslcjold...
Controversy is also expected over the election of a new Secretary General. Logical candidate for the job is Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral...