Word: protocol
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...those who felt that De Gaulle's primary aim was simply to play on latent anti-U.S. feelings throughout Latin America, the two leaders had quick reassurance. What Mexico seeks, said López Mateos at the airport, "is an alliance that is informal and without protocol and against no one." On Mexico's insistence, De Gaulle agreed in advance not to bait...
Despite the French love of protocol, a pleasant informality reigns at the Quai. Any officer, however junior, can barge unannounced into the office of any other-with the exception of the minister, his secretary-general and the chief of personnel. Individualism is the fashion: if he wants to, an officer can bring his dog to the Quai, and even Couve de Murville occasionally appears with Jason, the son of Xenophon...
...Phrases. But as the Jan. 5 expiration date of the holiday "protocol" drew closer, the farewells at the Wall grew tearful once again. Mayor Willy Brandt estimated that 1,300,000 of his West Berliners had passed through the Wall during the 18-day period, carrying with them $3,250,000 worth of food, clothing and Christmas presents. Nonetheless, even as Brandt's representatives worked cautiously with East German officials to renew the visiting agreement, many Westerners-both German and Allied-were having doubts. Brandt views the Wall arrangement as merely another item in the long list of "technical...
Unexpected Realities. When he entered Jerusalem, the Pope had intended to deliver a few words of greeting to the ancient, holy-and bitterly divided-city. He never got the chance, for the Pope-accustomed to the Byzantine orderliness of Vatican protocol-was brutally brought face to face with some unexpected realities of modern life. When the papal entourage wheeled into the square outside the Damascus Gate, a wave of humanity broke through the guards and surrounded the Pope's car. Newsmen, predictably, were in the lead, but priests, nuns, children, legionnaires and tourists were swept along by the tide...
...head is full of warm muzzy memories of the vaudeville circuit where she was a child star, just as Playwright Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, once was. June finds the marathon degrading and unpalatable, but hunger makes her stomach it. From her partner, Lee Allen, she learns contest protocol: about the "horses" who drag-carry their sleeping partners around the floor with proud belligerence, and about the clowns who must check out after 1,000 hours because clowns are not supposed to win, and about the quitters who "punk out." She jitterbugs in the "sprints," scrambles for tossed coins...