Word: greeterism
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...that stuffy oldtime ribbon-snipping for Mayor John V. Lindsay. New York, says His Honor, is a "fun city," and he and his merry men do things that way. Out in Central Park to dedicate a new Fountain Café, Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet...
...affairs, Podgorny's main claim to power in the hierarchy was his control of party cadres-a job he may well lose as a result of his "elevation." The Soviet presidency is largely ceremonial, and without strong party posts its occupant is little more than a meeter and greeter. Podgorny, in short, seemed to have been kicked upstairs, with one nagging reservation: Brezhnev himself was upstairs just before the anti-Khrushchev coup, but he found some backstairs down to power...
...diplomats last week in New York. It was Elizabeth's kid sister's first trip to the U.S., a 20-day tour of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tucson, Washington and New York, and on hand to welcome her, as New York City's deputy official greeter, was a member of one of America's own royal families. "Charlotte Ford, 24, curtsied and gave Meg a bouquet of roses and stephanotis. "Thank you," said Margaret, adding graciously: "And how is your father...
...certain of his job, and behind each, among the other oligarchs, stand any number of potential replacements. One major contender is gone-ailing Frol Kozlov, 56, whose name suddenly disappeared along with Khrushchev's from official pronouncements. President Anastas Mikoyan, 68, though shunted into the role of greeter last week, is still the man with the best balance in the Soviet Union, having survived every change of leadership since the fall of the Czar...
Lady Bird manned campaign telephones, distributed buttons, operated as official greeter. When she thought Lyndon's campaign speeches were too long, she slipped him notes reading "That's enough." She gave advice freely, later noted: "I see some of my ideas put into practice. I'm not sure Lyndon remembers where he got them." When Johnson lost the presidential nomination to Kennedy in 1960, Lady Bird faced the press. "Lyndon would have made a noble President-a tough, can-do President," she said. "But as a mother and a wife and a woman who wakes...