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From Norway and West Germany came suggestions that Hammarskjold be given the Nobel Peace Prize. The weightiest tribute of all came from Dwight Eisenhower, who last week told his press conference: "The man's abilities have not only been proven, but a physical stamina that is ... almost unique in the world has also been demonstrated by this man, who, night after night, has gone with one or two hours' sleep-working all day, and, I must say, working intelligently and devotedly...
Private Faces. Sensitive and deceptively youthful in appearance, 51-year-old Dag Hammarskjold is a scion of one of Sweden's most notable political families. His father was the Prime Minister who kept Sweden out of World War I. Hammarskjold was from childhood a quiet, reserved person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...
...freehand paraphrase of British Poet W. H. Auden, Bachelor Hammarskjold often declares: "Private faces should not be caught in public places"-and for some time after he became U.N. Secretary-General he was dismayed by the extent to which his private face was on public display. But he also inherited, as he once wrote, "a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country-or humanity. This service required sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes...
...confidence of U.N. delegates in hundreds of quiet sessions in his spick, pine-paneled office on the 38th floor of the U.N. Building. He absorbed the opinions and aspirations of delegate after delegate with a clear-eyed sympathy that rapidly earned him a reputation for brilliance, discretion and impartiality. Hammarskjold does not pretend to be impartial at heart ("You love some things and you loathe others"), but he does his best to bring to his job the objectivity of a good historian. "The public," says he, "never sees that, with the kind of person you have to deal with...
...time, Hammarskjold has become one of two men who really have fingertip understanding of the entire U.N. (The other: his executive assistant, Andrew Cordier, a husky, onetime professor from Indiana who has been described as "a Wallace Beery with brains.") Wisely, Hammarskjold never employed too nakedly this power. "If I think a man is being foolish," he says, "I may have to tell him. But I can't, as you say, blow my top. I have to be frank, but without heat...