Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sloan was swept into a series of abrazos from the women in the unofficial welcoming party, emerging with two bouquets and smeared lipstick. Somewhat eclipsed, the new ambassador listened to a brief welcome from Alfonso Castro Valle, sub-chief of protocol. Then from his light grey suit he fished a diplomatic little speech of his own. Said O'Dwyer, in Spanish that had gone a bit rusty since his student days in Salamanca: "I feel deeply honored that I have been chosen to succeed the distinguished and able former ambassador, Mr. Walter Thurston, and I am gratified that...
...Also seriously ailing, Italy's Communist Chief Palmiro Togliatti last week left Rome's Salus Hospital after a twelve-day stay for a brain operation, headed north for a rest. Notably, Moscow sent no flowers, no words of sympathy. In the well-ordered world of Communist protocol, such silence reverberates like an explosion. But only the rashest observers predicted a change in the leadership or policies of Italy's 2,500,000-member Communist Party, largest in the West...
...South felt it no problem. Said Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield: "We have not run into any confusion because we are familiar with correct flag protocol. We fly the Confederate flag on a separate pole on Confederate Memorial Day, and we'll fly the U.N. flag the same...
...city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth. He once addressed Admiral William Halsey as "Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts of a born politician and a hearty love of power. Working his way up in Chicago...
This time, in a highly topical spoof of a lady ambassador to "the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg," she plays one of those high-up roles made to order for her lowdown ways. She observes protocol with a pratfall, practices diplomacy by outright propositioning. When she gets fired and can no longer be called Madam, a grateful Lichtenburg hangs a cross round her neck that entitles her to be known as a Dame. For romance she has Paul Lukas, a distinguished actor who manages to seem so while having no opportunity to act; and for assaulting the rafters, there are such...