Word: protocole
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...special protocol, which has little meaning in 1951, stated that Turkey could not be "forced" into "action having as its effect . . . armed conflict with the Soviet Union...
...Christmas Blubber." With gay disregard of military protocol, Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
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...
...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...