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...South Africa the calmest man seemed to be the new Prime Minister himself. Peering, paunchy Daniel Malan took a full week to form his government, while partisans cheered in hysteria and the opposition waited on tenterhooks...
...over the admission of Argentina, left the meeting. Much of the press went into a tailspin. It was a bad day, but not nearly so bad as the headlines suggested. As the delegates left the hall, TIME'S Anatole Visson got through the crush to one of the calmest men in San Francisco. "What do you think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best one from San Francisco...
...Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...Columbia Court of Appeals and a former Senate colleague. In a century-old Episcopal church at Berryville, Va., the President stood as best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter Mary Margaret, both in street dress. The President did not kiss the 50-year-old, misty-eyed bride...