Word: protocole
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...instructive journey north for Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, 65, invited to speak by the Harvard Law School Forum. Stopping by the Massachusetts State House on a protocol visit, Barnett was talking with officials when in walked Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, 43, first Negro elected to such a post in the U.S. Barnett briefly shook hands. "Hello there," he said. "Welcome to Massachusetts, Governor," replied Brooke with a smile, and then shook hands with Mrs. Barnett and her daughter...
...Bone. But political protocol still demanded that the New Frontier find some kind of Administration job for the two-time Democratic presidential candidate. Stevenson was widely mentioned for Secretary of State. He was understandably disappointed when the United Nations offer came instead; and again he hesitated about accepting. Many Stevenson supporters considered the U.N. post just a bone thrown to Adlai. But to some of Kennedy's Irish Mafia outriders, it was one bone more than Adlai deserved...
Indians explained that no planes were flying because of the Chinese border war; eventually they provided second-class train tickets for the two-day trip. At that, Ambassador Paz angrily complained to the Indian protocol office, which put the team on a flight to Madras-just in time for the monsoon rains. "When we finally got there,'' said Coach Contreras, "the boys were afraid to eat the food, and were losing weight...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...
...Only Man. "Maintain" was not really the word. "Prevail" was more like it. All her life she spoke of the pomp and protocol that enveloped her as "the cage," and she never ceased struggling to escape its confines. As a constitutional monarch she had limited executive powers; yet she learned statecraft so thoroughly that Cabinet ministers were constantly being stumped by her sharp questioning. In exile during World War II, so efficient was she that one escaped Dutch Resistance fighter marveled. "The government in London was a bunch of chattering wives, but there was one man: the Queen...