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...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...race: run interference for Davis Phinney, 25, Carpenter's husband and the U.S.'s best hope in the event. The Americans traded the lead with Norway's Dag Otto Lauritzen and Morten Saether, Colombia's Nestor Mora and Canada's powerhouse, Steve Bauer. With ten miles left, Grewal pumped off on a premature breakaway. He gained 24 sec., but Bauer was soon riding in his slips stream. In the last 200 meters, the fatigued American downgeared slightly and blasted up the final grade, rising on his pedals and throwing up his arms as he crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Pushing Their Pedals to the Medals | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...possibility that Russia might rush into the Middle East gave urgency to the efforts of peacemakers. The U.S. and Britain and France got back together again, after a week tragically apart. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1956: World Crisis, Appalling Events: Hungarian Revolution | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...chief-of-staff James A. Baker III in to the White House. Darman is now a deputy assistant to the president, with responsibility for overseeing the flow of information to and from Reagan. He participates in both policy and administrative decisions, and sees Reagan up to several housrs a dag. He previously worked in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and for a Washington-based consulting firm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ronnie's Harvard Men | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk with Joseph Lash | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

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