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After bowing through innumerable curtain calls, Sadler's Wells Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn hurried backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House to accept the greetings of British delegate to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb. Convinced that her countryman's superlative performance at Lake Success deserved something special too, the dancer personally fitted a dark red rose into Sir Gladwyn's lapel...
...Etonian who won a first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...
...Chairman. The following day, in an equally caustic mood, Sir Gladwyn took over the Council presidency for September. He promptly broke through the roadblock set up by Malik. Before the session was 60 seconds old, Britain's Jebb invited South Korea's patient John M. Chang to sit with the Council during its discussion of North Korean aggression. Malik waved for attention, snapped his fingers, called "point of order" twice in English. But Jebb kept eyes on Chang until the Korean was seated at the table. Then Malik got the floor...
...Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, this month's president of the U.N. Security Council, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying (50 years), well-tailored and crisply spoken. He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy...
...Gladwyn's arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...