Word: hambro
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...seismographs around the world measured the impact of the closely spaced explosions, the U.N.'s anniversary session was shaping up, like the U.S. underground test, as a strictly low-yield affair. On the first day, when General Assembly President Edvard Hambro of Norway rose to declare that "the world will be listening to what we say and watching what we do," he stared out over vast expanses of empty seats and delegates of far less stature than had been anticipated...
...first speech as president, the cool, suave Norwegian, 59, emphasized instead some less spectacular and more manageable problems. Hambro urged, for example, a halt to "the erosion of our environment," adding: "Pollution knows of no national boundaries, recognizes no political sovereignty and does not distinguish between rich and poor." This is hardly the primary purpose for which the U.N. was set up. Remembering that last year U.S. officials suggested that NATO also should start worrying about pollution, one might conclude that ecology, however important in its own right, has become the last refuge of despairing politicians and diplomats...
...that Hambro is the despairing type. Norway's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1966, Hambro was the unanimous choice of the European members, whose turn it was by gentleman's agreement to select the president for the coming session; he was elected by 122 of 124 votes cast in a secret ballot.* The bespectacled Hambro, a delegate to the U.N. founding conference in 1945, is the son of the late Carl J. Hambro, who served as the last president of the League of Nations. As a student, young Edvard did research under a fellowship at League headquarters...
...Hambro is descended from an old Jewish family that came to Norway centuries ago. but he is a Lutheran. He is distantly related to the founders of Hambros Bank in London. His wife Elizabeth, 54, whom he met in France, is the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They have four grown children...
Imposing Cast. In the weeks ahead, Hambro is certain to be preoccupied with matters of protocol. From Oct. 14 to 24, when the U.N. formally celebrates its 25th anniversary, between 40 and 70 heads of state are expected to visit the glass-and-steel headquarters on Manhattan's East River...