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Across the nation, few flags waved and few bands played. In a sober week, the nation was mulling sober thoughts. What some of the thoughts seemed to be was reflected in reports of TIME correspondents around the country...
Dancing in the Wind. One evening last fortnight, a wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...
...Witch Doctor read the book. The red-lipped, white-helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s. The book is also called a novel and is offered as such by the Literary Guild. In sober fact, few fiction writers have ever displayed less control of the novelist's art than Author Louise Stinetorf. Nonetheless, her story of missionary life in Africa has enough candor, sympathy and even occasional excitement to win it a large number of midsummer readers...
...speech to the nation was almost a repeat of the studied, sober-sided message he had delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
...have done a service in presenting your story on Picasso and the French artists in the Venice biennial [TIME, June 26] in such a relatively sober and thoughtful manner...