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...Hammarskjold liked to be near universities, and the method of thought they inspired; and commitment to ideas of rationality and tolerance in international relation was the measure of his commitment to the United Nations. Radcliffe, and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists, have shown the most acute recognition of this quality in the late Secretary-General, and the best possible commemoration of it, in their origination of a lecture series in his name...
Last night the first lecturer in the series, Mme. Rossel of Hammarskjold's own Sweden (the country from which his job usurped his political devotion, but never his cultural sympathy) spoke of the U.N.'s most personal and humanitarian works: the series started where it should, with individuals. But appropriate though this beginning is, the tough-minded Secretary-General would have encouraged a series that went on from here to lectures whose ideas might influence the expansion of the scope of international organization, and of respect for international law. The most tangible steps toward reform, development, and the relief...
Human beings are the world's most important natural resource, and the United Nations is trying to see that this resource is used to its fullest extent, said Mme. Agda Rossel, Swedish ambassador to the U.N., last night at the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lecture...
Sugarplums, College. It began last month when the Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place...
...Agda Rossel, head of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations, will deliver the first annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Sanders Theatre...