Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this unlikely pair, May was born to greatness of a sort. Lineage, decorum and diligence (constant letter writing and diary keeping) commended her to Victoria, and she was chosen to marry Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in direct line for the throne. Alas, Prince "Eddy," as they called him. was not very bright but very dissipated, and he died-in the usual semi-public royal fashion, with May and his family at his bedside-in a "noisy and frightful delirium." There remained George, Duke of York, Eddy's younger brother, a naval officer. After a suitable interval, bluff George...
...reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly job also calls for the exercise of behind-the-scenes social as well as diplomatic skills. Fortunately, Frederick Boland is a gregarious man. "You can accomplish a lot over...
...Been Slandered!" Watching the show at his embassy, the Spanish ambassador, Juan Pablo de Lojendio, 53, who is the Marquis of Vellisca and normally the picture of diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone!" All Cuba, for which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried...