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...handle an interview and a painful curtsy to young Carl XVI Gustaf. Some rulers were unavailable. Since the Lockheed scandal, beleaguered Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands see no member of the press. Norway's sailor King Olav, 72, never gives formal interviews. TIME'S Dag Christensen, also a sailor, saw him recently on the water, where he failed to give Olav's red sloop Bingo right of way on the Oslofjord, and earned an icy glare from his monarch...
...Brien, introduced at the lecture as an intellectual who had successfully made the jump to elective politics, is a reknowned playwright and literary critic, and once served as assistant to former U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskold...
...million Jews might regard any welcome as bad taste-and worse politics. The insult was compounded by Governor Hugh Carey, who also declined to see Sadat. Then when he arrived at the U.N., he was greeted by cries of "Down with Sadat! Long live Palestine!" from Palestinian sympathizers on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza...
...miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most of her 500 sculptures, among them such characteristically involuted, smoothly chiseled figures as Kneeling, Winged Figure, and Single Form, her massive, 21-ft.-high bronze memorial to Dag Hammarskjold at the United Nations. Drawing inspiration from the cliffs and curving shores of Cornwall as well as the human form, Hepworth regarded her work as "essentially practical and passionate; my whole life expressed in stone, marble, wood and bronze...
They came from all over the East Coast-as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia. They spoke in a dozen American and countless foreign accents. Crowding into New York's Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza across from the United Nations, they overflowed into side streets and onto the avenues in a huge protest demonstration involving at least 65,000 people. Their message: an increasingly isolated Israel must be saved...