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...builders, growers and healers," said Dag Hammarskjold, chief of the U.N.'s staff of international men in white, touring tense Middle East capitals last week. It was a U.N. healer, Ralph Bunche, who last won peace in Palestine seven years ago, and many highly placed observers think that just such a skilled and universally trusted international hand is needed there now. Climbing first out of his white U.N. plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed...
...business, Mao Tse-tung. As a special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...
...Hammarskjold's relaxations were even more strenuous. Weekends, Hammarskjold would often disappear to climb a mountain, alone. "On vacations." says his brother Sten, "he still puts on an open-neck shirt and shorts, and with his hair streaming in the wind, pedals his bicycle furiously along the roads of Sweden." On one occasion, Hammarskjold cycled to a town in the south of Sweden and asked for a hotel room. The clerk examined the sweaty, youthful figure in shorts, with rucksack, and told him to try the youth hostel. The chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden...
...Draft. It was Hammarskjold's rare combination of brilliance, discretion and modesty that first attracted the British and the French, who proposed him for Secretary-General. The-first rumors reached him in his Stockholm apartment one night in 1952, but thinking it was a joke, he replied: "Amused but not interested." Then came confirmation from the U.N. "It was like the draft," he says: looking back. "But an obligation can develop into a privilege, and it really...
...with a Mission. In Manhattan, Dag Hammarskjold lives in an eight-room apartment on Park Avenue at 73rd Street. He furnished it himself, simply but well, as befits a man who earns $20,000 a year, tax free, and gets another tax-free $35,000 for expenses. His household consists of a Swedish butler, a Swedish housekeeper, a Norwegian secretary and an American chauffeur who drives him to the U.N. building five days a week, and to his 80-acre estate in New York State on weekends. Hammarskjold is the most eligible bachelor in New York, but he keeps himself...