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During Thant's year in office he has managed to keep both sides happy most of the time. He brought more Russians into the Secretariat, began conferring regularly with his Soviet Under Secretary, whom his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had deliberately ignored. But when Russia failed to ante up for the Congo operation, Thant deplored the fact, to the satisfaction...
...Dag Hammarskjold liked to be near universities, and the method of thought they inspired; and commitment to ideas of rationality and tolerance in international relation was the measure of his commitment to the United Nations. Radcliffe, and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists, have shown the most acute recognition of this quality in the late Secretary-General, and the best possible commemoration of it, in their origination of a lecture series in his name...
Human beings are the world's most important natural resource, and the United Nations is trying to see that this resource is used to its fullest extent, said Mme. Agda Rossel, Swedish ambassador to the U.N., last night at the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lecture...
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...