Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest center, "Deauville is the great lady whom I have always loved." A onetime croupier who rakes in $3,500,000 (and keeps about $150,000 after taxes) in a good season at Deauville, André blends the parsimony of his peasant ancestors with the persnikity ways of a protocol pundit. "Deauville," he insists, "must be elegant...
...were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...
...around the stage without a suggestion of the poise and verve that Miss Merman gave the part. Rene Paul was dull but adequate as the supposedly suave Cosmo Constantine, Robert Mesrobian showed a certain degree of comic talent as Sebastian Sebastian, and Roger Starr was even funny as the protocol-minded charge d'affaires. The chorus line was singularly unattractive and un-rhythmical. Of course the play still has Irving Berlin's pleasing score, but then, so do all the record stores in the Square...
Black's relaxed approach penetrates the entire World Bank. No tight-collared protocol man-"don't have time for it"-he keeps paperwork to a minimum, hardly ever writes a memo, instead prefers to work out problems face to face. He lets underlings work out projects, does not like to "discuss loans until they are just about on the edge of the stove...
...airport fire a 21-gun salute for each chief executive on the afternoon of arrival-as many as 420 eardrum-blasting booms altogether? Last week Host Panama, having successfully paved the way for what will probably be history's biggest gathering of heads of state, tackled the touchy protocol problems...