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Bound for Ceylon after an exhausting three-month-long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Britain's globe-girdling Queen Elizabeth last week stopped to pay a brief call on one of her quietest realms: Cocos Islands, a tiny atoll lying 800 miles south of Singapore in the Indian Ocean. In happy contrast to the wildly cheering crowds that greeted her elsewhere, Elizabeth's Cocosian subjects, gathered 560 strong on Home Island, stood in dignified silence as she stepped ashore with her husband. Clad, men and women alike, in sarongs and transparent ceremonial jackets, they waved little Union...
...hear if the Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...
Among these two bright lights, Noyes is a stabilizing, influence, Quietest of the three, his value lies in his steady passing and dependable wing play. Yet he too can push the Puck past a goalie...
Business Career: Although he is little known to politicians and public, Humphrey is one of the country's liveliest (and quietest) industrialists. As head of the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, he presides over a vast business and industrial empire which includes important interests in iron, steel, coal, copper, oil, natural gas, rayon, plastics, shipping and banking. The company was named for Mark Alonzo Hanna, Ohio's great Republican political power, who owned and ran it until he died in 1904. Humphrey resigned from his father's law firm to become general counsel...
...quietest day in nearly a month came to the Sniper-Triangle area. A few U.N. planes strafed Chinese positions back of the front lines. The first snow of the winter came softly down...