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...Council. The first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie of Norway, was an energetic labor leader who earned the enmity of Russia by organizing the U.N. defense of South Korea. When he left office, the Soviets objected to more than a dozen prominent candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when they...
...years ago, in fact, that very issue brought the U.N. to the brink of a breakup when the Soviet Union tried to create an unwieldy three-man directorate in order to keep the post from falling into the hands of another activist in the mold of the late Dag Hammarskjold...
Senghor has been President of Senegal since its inception in 1960; since 1968, he has also served as Minister of Defense. He has published five volumes of verse in French and is the recipient of the Dag Hammarskjold Prize for his writing...
Although most of the best large-scale sculpture produced in the past 15 years has been made in and around New York, the city provides few spaces where it can be viewed in proper perspective. Now private initiative is making up for public failure. In front of Hammarskjold Plaza, its new office block on Second Avenue at 47th Street, Wolf & Macklowe, a New York real estate firm, has created a sculpture garden for rotating displays of sculptures too large to be exhibited elsewhere. "I told the city," says Harry Macklowe, 33, "that I'd bear all the expenses...
...wholly abstract. A disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance...