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...doesn't exist, he may have to be invented-in a hurry. On Dec. 31, Secretary-General U Thant, 62, suffering from a bleeding ulcer and general exhaustion, will end his two-term, ten-year stewardship. That leaves the 130 delegations little more than a month to find someone acceptable to all of the contentious Big Five and also to a majority of the Third World. According to Finnish Delegate Max Jakobson, the ideal candidate for the $65,000-a-year post would have to be "a person who is of no religion and of no race, a person...
...relatively small mission, unfamiliar with the world organization, might at first be less active than many members of the U.N. expected. Nonetheless, the Chinese will receive considerable press exposure this week-when Chiao becomes the first diplomat to visit ailing Secretary-General U Thant, who is hospitalized with an ulcer, then when he delivers his first speech in the General Assembly...
...between ideology and the practical imperatives of diplomacy. Probably Peking's least difficult task will be reaching agreement with Moscow and Washington on a new Secretary-General to replace the retiring U Thant, who collapsed in his office last week and was hospitalized for treatment of a peptic ulcer. A far harder problem is posed by the Middle East. Peking, which last week refused to accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters in the vote on admission, has all along backed the Palestinian fedayeen, often against Soviet-supported Arab governments. To continue to do so would...
...minutes and 51 seconds of playing time later, Dartmouth's kicker, Ted Perry, plodded back onto the field to try again. This time Shofner was bumped out of the play, the following wind caught the kick, and Coach Joe Restic came another loss closer to an ulcer...
...Rosalie Profaci, a daughter of the Brooklyn Mafia family whose patriarch, Joseph Profaci, provided Novelist Mario Puzo with a model for the "Godfather." Still, the strain of serving the old while being conditioned by the new showed in obvious and dramatic ways. Young Bill, reports Talese, had an ulcer at 15. As he grew up, his temper became shorter and more violent. At college, he beat up a jockey who dated his girl...