Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among cold-war diplomats, the tall, loose-jointed young man was a refreshing rarity. He moved too fast (100,000 miles in five months) ever to get involved with striped-trouser protocol. Wherever he went, U.S. Olympic Champion Malvin Whitfield took off his pants and got right to work...
Winner was durable World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who managed to remember protocol, staggered from his Mercedes to the microphone and dedicated his victory to President Perón. "Here is the best present I will ever make you," said the President as he handed the drooping driver a Coca-Cola...
Miami Beach's tensely anxious Sans Souci Hotel readied the full treatment for its imminent guests, the touring Shah of Iran and his luscious Queen Soraya. The protocol section of the U.S. State Department was also concerned: it wanted to restrain the overzealous hotel from whipping up the Shah's visit into a lather of commercialized hullabaloo. The Sans Souci insouciantly proceeded to run a red carpet from its lobby to the street, redecorate a 16-room wing as the imperial suite, paint the Shah's coat of arms on every royal door in sight. Hardheaded...
...outspoken comments and uninhibited ways often got her husband into trouble. After the war, Schlitter was serving at the German embassy in Madrid when the ex-Kaiser's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, dropped in for a call. The visit was supposed to be heavy with old-fashioned protocol, with everybody bowing low. Carefree Daisy, lined up with the rest of the staffers' wives, took one look at her old friend the prince, and with a whoop and a holler greeted him with a lusty "Hi there, Lulu!" Shortly thereafter, Oskar Schlitter was transferred to London...
...They're just content to settle down as housewives." Japan's Crown Prince Alcihrro turned 21, enjoyed a rare reunion with his family (court protocol requires that crown princes grow up virtual strangers to their parents), then was off for a round of tea parties in his honor. Sobersided Akihito unbent enough to show the whimsy lurking beneath his royal aloofness. Mindful of perennial rumors that his engagement will be announced momentarily, the prince slyly eyed a school friend and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit too early for me to be tied...