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...late Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the U.N., said at Mrs. Roosevelt's 70th birthday party in 1954: "Millions of people all over the world think of (her) as their friend...
Controversy is also expected over the election of a new Secretary General. Logical candidate for the job is Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral...
...Eddy Gilbert.) Still another victim of Gilbert's downfall was his personal broker. Francis Farr, a socialite customers' man for McDonnell & Co., who invested heavily in Bruce stock. Until Blue Monday, Farr did so well that three months ago he was able to buy the late Dag Hammarskjold's old maisonette on Park Avenue...
Ever since Dag Hammarskjold's DC-6 crashed and burned in the forest near Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, eight months ago, the United Nations has been trying to determine whether it was an accident or sabotage. Last week, after hearing dozens of witnesses in five cities, an investigating commission issued its final verdict: Cause unknown...
...Mikhail Smirnovsky. While it waited for Dobrynin's arrival, official Washington had had time to ponder his credentials. A skilled diplomat and a top Soviet expert on the U.S., Dobrynin served at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1952 to 1955. Later, at the U.N., he was Dag Hammarskjold's Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. He attended the Geneva summit conference in 1955 and the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting at Vienna...