MISSOURI: Wedding Day at Independence

"I feel that marriage vows are sacred," memoired Margaret Truman recently, "and I hope that mine will be spared the hurly-burly attending a news event." Last week in Trinity Episcopal Church at Independence, Mo., where her parents were married 36 years ago, Margaret, now 32, saw her hope accomplished; she became Mrs. Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. with more dignity and less hurly-burly than a former President's daughter and TV-radio star could expect.

A month after her engagement announcement, Margaret left Manhattan for Independence stubbornly determined on dignity. She disappeared into the family's 14-room, white...

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