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Hammarskjold's relaxations were even more strenuous. Weekends, Hammarskjold would often disappear to climb a mountain, alone. "On vacations." says his brother Sten, "he still puts on an open-neck shirt and shorts, and with his hair streaming in the wind, pedals his bicycle furiously along the roads of Sweden." On one occasion, Hammarskjold cycled to a town in the south of Sweden and asked for a hotel room. The clerk examined the sweaty, youthful figure in shorts, with rucksack, and told him to try the youth hostel. The chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden...
Edward D. Churchill, Jr., '56; Patrick T. Colt '55; Ernest B. Dane '55 (captain); Lindsay E. Fischer '56; Christopher C. Ingraham '55; Sten Lium '56; Joseph B. Poindexter '57; Charles H. Thomas H '56 James L. Gale '57 (manager...
...Jerusalem last week, the U.N.'s Israel-Egypt Mixed Armistice Commission condemned Egypt for the recent "brutal and murderous attack" (with grenades and Sten guns) on an Israeli wedding party on Israeli territory, in which one woman was killed and 22 persons wounded...
...hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...
...darkness of a South African summer morning last week, thousands of Johannesburg policemen-the whites armed with Sten guns and rifles, the blacks with clubs and spears-filed out of their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...