Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charm on Tap. But Robin Chandler Duke, ex-model, fashion editor, stockbroker and onetime public relations chief for Pepsi-Cola, had established a firm reputation along Embassy Row even before it became her job. It was up to Ann Hand, starting from scratch and a well-stocked closet, not only to prove that she could manage the tricks of a brand-new trade (everything from learning the names and faces of a hundred or so ambassadors by rote to making sure to seat Greeks and Turks at separate tables to remembering that the chargé d'affaires...
...they stepped off a billboard or out of a department store window; perfect, full-scale replicas of any of a number of American dreams. Instead, Ann and Lloyd Hand answered a different casting call. In December Lloyd accepted a bid from the President to succeed Angier Diddle Duke as the Chief of the U.S. State Department Office of Protocol...
...wining and dining, guiding and abiding of foreign chiefs of state and their ambassadors is a matter where a clumsy introduction or miscalculated place card can chill relations overnight. Accordingly, the post has traditionally gone to seasoned diplomats, and veteran socialites, such as Wiley Buchanan under Eisenhower, and "Angie" Duke, who is about to take over the U.S. embassy in Madrid...
...recalls Consultant Head, "that she was short a suit here, a dress there, decided where she could double up on one dress and where she couldn't." On long evening gowns, doubling up was well-nigh impossible; Ann took off for Washington with ten, two more than Mrs. Duke started her reign with...
...least some students at coed Duke University share Goheen's doubts. In a letter to the Daily Princetonian, three disillusioned Duke males cited "the facts: Females having the required intellectual aptitudes to compete successfully in your classrooms will not exactly measure up to the dreams you entertain while reading Playboy." The number of girls admitted to Princeton would necessarily be only a fraction of the male enrollment, they pointed out, so competition for their favors would make the males feel as though they were "trying to get into a free exhibit at the New York World's Fair...