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...present, is Beverly Pepper, 51, a sculptor who has lived in Italy for the past 24 years and has two shows of her work running in New York: indoor pieces and projects at the downtown André Emmerich Gallery, and "monumental" steel sculpture on the terrace of Hammarskjöld Plaza...
They came from all over the East Coast-as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia. They spoke in a dozen American and countless foreign accents. Crowding into New York's Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza across from the United Nations, they overflowed into side streets and onto the avenues in a huge protest demonstration involving at least 65,000 people. Their message: an increasingly isolated Israel must be saved...
Hammarskjöld did not often get his way, of course. There was little the U.N. could do about Khrushchev's brutal repression of the Hungarian uprising...
Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As a result the flyers' release was delayed eight months. Chou chose Hammarskjöld's birthday as the time to hand them over...
Urquhart does not much deal with Hammarskjöld's private life, though he squelches for good the rumors of his alleged homosexuality. Because the theme of the book is Hammarskjöld in action, the forces that so often frustrated him do not receive enough analysis...