Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizzling swing concert in Britain 23 years ago, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong recalls, he interrupted himself to roll his eyes toward a royal box and rasp: "This one's for you. Rex!" Rex, better known as King George V, was jolted but amused, despite the protocol that bars entertainers from referring to royalty in the audience-let alone addressing them directly. Last week, cavalier as ever about protocol, Satchmo did it again. Beaming at a $3.50 orchestra seat in London's cavernous Empress Hall, Armstrong growled: "Now we are going to jump one for one of our special...
Through all of last week's protocol, Goulart took special pains to make one point clear: Brazil is staunchly anti-Communist and he, as Brazil's Vice President, is staunchly anti-Communist as well, despite the fact that his ticket received a Communist endorsement in last October's elections. He summed up the struggle against Communism in his speech to the Senate: "For the U.S. it is mostly an external effort, which can be and is being kept away from the shores of this country by the joint action of your diplomacy and the organization of your...
Menacing Pause. Bulganin tried to retrieve the situation with an urbane, jolly-fellow speech regretting that they had not seen all they wanted because he and Khrushchev were "slaves of protocol." But when Bulganin sat down, Khrushchev lumbered to his feet and, flushed with anger and alcohol, launched into an hour's tirade...
Somewhere behind this nightmare phantasmagoria of publicity and exploitation, however, two human beings were approaching a solemn moment in which each planned to pledge his life to the other. In the maelstrom of confused protocol and embattled public relations, the strain of that moment was beginning to show on each. Rainier fidgeted nervously during the 16-minute civil ceremony in the palace throne room that made them man and wife in the eyes of Monaco law. By the following day, the wear and tear on his fiancée was beginning to show in telltale circles beneath her coolly beautiful...
Eden himself hankered for a chance to practice his favorite form of democracy, frank man-to-man chats with one's adversaries, free from publicity and protocol. He wanted to remind K. & B. that Middle East oil is now Britain's lifeline, and a war there could not be localized-because 'Britain would enter "it. "He wanted'-to as sure them that the Western alliance can not be splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much...