Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chiefly responsible for converting the U.N. from an ineffectual sounding board into an effective force for international order is Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, 55. Son of a Swedish Prime Minister and scion of one of Sweden's most famous families, sandy-haired Dag Hammarskjold is one of the world's most self-effacing men. To a post in which the confidence of others counts for everything, this poetry-loving economist (he was chairman of the Bank of Sweden at 36) brings icy impartiality and impenetrable discretion...
...matter of hours, Hammarskjold had pledges of troops from Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian...
...Manager Cus D'Amato for his fighter, World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, that D'Amato outdid his customary generosity in giving Patterson a little something befitting the man's rank. At a testimonial banquet in Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and Grand Old Democrat James A. Farley. His gift, symbolizing good behavior...
...Escapade, a sleek, 72½-ft. yawl skippered by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena, Calif., glided past Skagen Lighthouse to lead 17 weary finishers in the Bermuda-Sweden yacht race. Escapade's time for the 3,500-mile voyage: 19 days...
Denmark has such need for labor for essential construction projects that the government has banned private building. Sweden had 11,400 job opportunities waiting for metal workers in May, 5,000 more than a year ago. In France, De Gaulle's massive attempt to move industries into the provinces ran into the resistance of French workers loath to move to new areas. A precision-products manufacturer in Colmar complained: "We scoured eastern France for people, and we know they just don't exist...