Word: punctilio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean armistice talks, which have dragged on through 275 sessions, have provided some classic examples of the use of punctilio to shatter a rival's composure. At one of the first meetings, North Korea's General Nam II provided himself with a particularly high chair and seated U.S. Admiral C. Tur ner Joy on a low one. Joy saw to it that the chairs were of equal height from then on. When the allies set out a small United Nations table flag, the North Koreans followed suit-only theirs was six inches taller. In this case, however...
...producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that has her playing a blind girl terrorized by a couple of murderous junkies. On hand to lend civic punctilio to the occasion was New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, with his wife Mary. And since he'd left the keys to the city back at the office, His Honor gave Audrey a kiss on the cheek, while Mary Lindsay said placidly: "I think anything Audrey does...
Separate Room. On the surface, the story of John and Mary Cheever is a period piece of the '30s. John called in a taxi at Mary's rooming house and swept her off to his Village apartment, where they set up housekeeping. Actually, with vestigial New England punctilio, Mary was installed in a separate room. In any case, events shifted the story into a pattern closer to John's anachronistic traditions. With all the pomp of an outraged Victorian parent, Mary's father descended upon the pair and demanded to know John's intentions. "Marriage...
...would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch on deck. Schirra climbed out and was borne away for a physical examination and hours of dictating his observations. Doctors reported that...