Word: dag
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...choice is the man who "dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." As usual, our readers were invited to make their own nominations. Everybody from Dr. Dooley to Chubby Checker was nominated, but most frequently suggested were Dag Hammarskjold, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and either the U.S. or the Russian spacemen. Hammarskjold finished ahead in the popular vote with Kennedy second...
...hand. Dobrynin, a protégé of Gromyko's, was in the Soviet embassy in Washington for three years (11952-55) and served one year as minister-counselor. After returning to Russia, he went to the United Nations as under secretary to the late Dag Hammarskjold - and the highest ranking Russian on the U.N. staff. In 1960, he returned to Moscow, where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after...
...Considering events in Katanga, we Norwegians count ourselves lucky that there was no U.N. and no Dag Hammarskjold in 1905; otherwise, we would have had Ethiopian and Italian troops here to prevent our secession and enforce the authority of the central government in Stockholm...
...your readers for Man of the Year. I feel that he should be Man of the Year for his greed, which has cost the world the lives of two of the greatest men of this century: Patrice Lumumba-that rebellious son of the African soil-and Dag Hammarskjold...
...Belgian and other white soldiers (see box, p. 20) who were his major support. Finally last August, U.N. troops began an ill-fated action to force Tshombe ,to end his secession-an action that ended in a humiliating cease-fire maintaining the status quo and in Dag Hammarskjold's fatal air crash...