Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During her four-week U.S. visit, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands threaded her way through the niceties of diplomatic protocol and the hazards of civil welcoming committees with unaffected good humor. (In Detroit, after the mayor had stepped on her train for the third time, she was heard to murmur: "My God, not again!") Before leaving for Canada, she topped her tour with a visit to some of the kings & queens of Hollywood, where photographers caught her getting the leading-lady treatment from Old Star Spencer Tracy and Producer Dore Schary...
...received no communication from you directly while you were in Moscocw . . . The protocol was not submitted to me nor was the communiqué. I was completely in the dark on the whole conference until I requested you to come to the Williamsburg and inform me. The communiqué was released before I ever...
...four full pages locked up, ready to go to press in 15 minutes, devoted 47 columns to the story, and stopped the presses printing its Sunday Magazine to replate with a cover picture of the new Queen. Editors took extra care to keep from stumbling in matters of royal protocol. The Dallas Times-Herald asked the British consul to sit in the newsroom as an adviser on ceremony and mourning. Manhattan's Herald Tribute hastily bought a clear, factual story on royal succession, titles, etc., by Editor Cyril Hankinson of Debrett's Peerage...
When the Student Council shot over the head of he Faculty to appeal directly to President Conant on he issue of membership lists as a requirement for recognition of an undergraduate group, it may have trained the bounds of protocol and procedure, but it lid not overstress the importance of the problem. The question of the membership lists requires a full and air hearing in the Faculty, and we hope that the Council's breach of order will not dissuade the Faculty from giving this matter its attention...
...Rockefeller, and run by the National Institute of Public Affairs, the Government Interne plan recruited forty college juniors of all-around ability and put them to work for a year. Although the plan offered no pay, for that would have enmeshed it in the Civil Service seniority and protocol system, it offered students a quick way to enter whatever agency they wished...