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Brian Urquhart is not the first to make the point that the United Nations did not work out as originally planned. But in this book, a comprehensive political analysis of Dag Hammarskjöld's seven years as the U.N.'s Secretary-General, Urquhart for the first time chronicles in precise detail how close one man often came to making the curious organization do what it was supposed to. The author has worked for the U.N. since its inception and is now an Assistant Secretary-General. He is also the first man to be given access to Hammarskj...
...Pakistan. There is some feeling that a new chief U.N. executive should come from a country that is neutral, small and underdeveloped-which rules out Japan, among others. Since the first two men to hold the job, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjöld, were white Europeans and Thant is from Burma, many African and Latin delegates believe that it is their turn. But neither Moscow nor Washington wholly trusts the Black Africans (too unpredictable on any issue but race and colonialization), and the Russians feel that everything south of the Rio Grande except...
...have been replaced by two L-shaped aluminum guide strips (see diagram). As the train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles of ordinary horseshoe magnets repel each other, so do the train's superconductive magnets repel their magnetic "mirror images" in the aluminum strips. In this way the train can be lifted as much as a foot off the ground...
...same time, Poland's Communist daily, Trybuna Ludu, warned Polish workers to lay off card playing and vodka drinking during working hours-practices that it charged are widespread. Reporting the "agony" of watching workers standing around idly, smoking cigarettes and chatting, Hungary's weekly Szabad FÖld recently described the country's labor situation as "desperate and terrible...
...Wean 4 0 0 0 Mapes 4 1 1 0 G'dman 5 0 2 1 H'ff'r'n 5 0 0 0 Zoya 4 1 1 0 H'r'l'we 4 2 2 0 W's'n'ski 4 0 1 2 Sch'f'ld 1 0 0 0 Shaffer 2 0 0 1 Dunn 1 0 0 0 Totals...