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...Dag Hammarskjold was more than the late Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was a man of feeling, a poet, who wrote of a small sculpture that he kept in his office: "Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?" The question was answered at Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on Sept. 18, 1961, when his airplane crashed during a tour of the chaotic Congo. The sculpture was by Barbara Hepworth, 61, Britain's top woman artist. Last week another Hepworth bronze appeared at the United Nations...
...supplied secret intelligence about the Sino-Soviet split. He was so good at his job, Georgiev reported modestly, that the CIA gave him a diploma for efficiency, and the courtroom audience tittered when the ex-diplomat said he once asked the CIA to nominate him to succeed Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The early life of the late U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Repeat...
...only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers-among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. To Reinhold Niebuhr, he is "the greatest living Jewish philosopher." Dag Hammarskjold was Buber's disciple and Swedish translator...
...three-man U.N. committee that negotiated the Korean ceasefire, Pearson in 1952 was elected U.N. Assembly President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went to Dag Hammarskjold. In 1955 Pearson took off for Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov-something that no NATO Foreign Minister before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their ideas about Americans...