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Everywhere last week Humphrey preached the politics of unity and consensus. Even Actress Ann-Margret failed to distract him from the theme during a Minneapolis celebration of Svenskar Dag (Day of the Swedes...
Within two days museumgoers, including elderly couples, beatniks and housewives with children, had broken all attendance records. Sweden being Sweden, there was no public outcry. Indeed, the show drew favorable reviews. Even the conservative Sydsvenska Dag-bladet ran eleven detailed pictures. Its conclusion: "On the whole, far more harmless than any one of our ordinary men's magazines...
...DAG HAMMARSKJOLD: THE STATESMAN AND HIS FAITH by Henry P. Van Dusen. 240 pages. Harper...
When he died in an African plane crash in 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjdld left behind a book that he had been working on secretly for 36 years, a slim volume of 600 poems, prayers and aphorisms dealing with "birth and death, love and pain." Hammarskjold's Markings (TiME, Oct. 23, 1964) was an instantaneous success. "Everybody owns Dag Hammarskjold's Markings," said retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast...
...Wing Intellectual Revilo P. Oliver, has it that Oswald was ordered by Moscow to shoot Kennedy because the President had been a Communist but was threatening to "turn American." The "Evil-Forces Theory," favored by Mali Foreign Minister Ous-man Ba, links the death of Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjöld with "forces behind the U.S.Belgian rescue operation in the Congo...