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...Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
After he got Chou's cables, Hammarskjold flew to Stockholm to join the Swedish Academy of Letters (replacing his late father, Hjalmar Hammarskjold, Sweden's World War I Premier). While there, he lunched with Keng Piao, Red China's ambassador in Stockholm, to make practical arrangements for the trip and perhaps to set up a deal with Keng Piao's master. He is scheduled to return to the U.N. briefly this week, to leave shortly after Christmas for the 12,000-mile flight to Peking's marble halls and flinty masters...
...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...Hitler's most agile hatchetmen, former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who had whiled away many postwar years in Madrid as the constant companion of Use Luettge, decided to go respectable. Strapping, scar-faced Otto took Use, a niece of former Nazi Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht, to a sleepy Castilian village and married her in a civil ceremony. Madrid's sizable German colony cheered, but good, churchgoing Madrilenos prepared to ignore the newlyweds...
...breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. ¶ At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points...