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Diplomacy by Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
When he had finished, the Premier folded his notes, stepped from the rostrum, keeled over in a faint. Parliament knew just what to do-Mossadeq is always expected to faint when he gets excited, which is often. Two physician-deputies picked him off the red-carpeted floor, carried him out and revived...
...Tokunaga, faint and trembling, went on about her business. That evening she went to her husband's drygoods store, was surprised to see the shutter closed. A clerk burst into tears when he saw her. Her husband had been in the train. With him died 103 other men & women, including three American soldiers...
...article about Gayelord (molasses & yogurt) Hauser in Cosmopolitan threw a faint ray of light on the dietitian's onetime romance with Greta Garbo. "She was lonely, shy . . ." wrote Ernest Lehman. "Gayelord was gregarious, expansive and as full of self-confidence as he was of vegetable juice ... He supervised her diet, her health, her mode of living. They made garlic juice together...
...Parliament on its modern course as a democratic house. George Romney's portrait of him almost succeeds in characterizing a sitter whose character was not yet evident. He caught Charles Grey's idealism as well as his pride, conveyed both in the open brow, direct glance and faint curl of the lips...