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According to diplomatic custom, Brezhnev is not entitled to the top red-carpet treatment accorded to foreign dignitaries of higher official standing-elaborate airport ceremonies, big honor guards and 21-gun salutes. On his recent visit to Paris, the French did not decide to accord Brezhnev full head-of-state honors until the Russians dropped some very strong hints that he wanted it that way. When Brezhnev meets with President Nixon in the spring, he is certain to be painfully aware that he is receiving a man who holds the overwhelming protocol advantages of being at once a) party leader...
...linens and blankets, a box of chicken, ham with pecans and peanuts, a polished-granite desk name plate, a baseball signed by Hank Aaron, a decorative wall carpet, a wristwatch, three bottles of liquor, a marble-headed golf putter, tennis rackets, fishing gear or hunting outfits, a box of King Edward Imperial cigars, and a real goose egg decorated with gold-leaf filigree and imitation pearls. The Governors' wives received pendants dangling a nugget of Georgia gold...
...should they welcome Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, arriving in Paris last week for a six-day visit? Since the bulky, heavy-browed Brezhnev, 64, holds neither state nor governmental station, technically he was not entitled to official honors. But he made it plain that he wanted full red-carpet treatment, and he knew that the French saw his first trip to Western Europe since succeeding Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 as an opportunity to improve relations...
Eventually Brezhnev had his way. President Georges Pompidou smashed protocol by ordering him treated as a chief of state. As a result, when the Soviet leader's Ilyushin-62 came to a stop at Orly last week, it was met by Pompidou, a red carpet, a 101-gun salute and clattering escorts of the mounted Garde Republicaine. Brezhnev and Wife Viktoria Petrovna were lodged in such a vast suite at the Grand Trianon in Versailles that Brezhnev jok ingly complained: "It takes me so long to go from my bedroom to the dining room that...
...Munro has been worrying about the artificial surface for other reasons. The ball moves faster and bounces higher off the carpet and the tempo of most matches is strikingly increased...