Word: officialdom
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...week visit last week came Her Majesty Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes. Washington officialdom knew what to expect from the vivacious, curly-haired Queen; she had already made herself a big hit on her first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look...
...with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily, rising and thereby terminating an interview with Lewis Strauss, then special assistant to the President on atomic-energy matters, "you have wasted half an hour of my time...
...best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book, he is eventually brought down by stuffy and hidebound U.S. officialdom...
...smiles, Lawyer Stevenson made no measurable progress in the mission that took him behind the Iron Curtain: trying to persuade Soviet officialdom to pay author's royalties to Stevenson clients (including Pearl Buck, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, Upton Sinclair) whose works are published in the Soviet Union. Said Stevenson wanly before heading for Warsaw and points west: "The Minister of Culture is studying the matter further...
...vast British tropical colony of Nigeria, the back-country people of the Eastern Region have long been a troublesome lot to officialdom. Mostly half-naked farmers, they take unusual delight in staging bloody campaigns against vaccinations, and in setting schools on fire. Each time the police must come in to restore order. But of all the assignments that the police have undertaken, none has produced such eerie results as the search of the house of Chief Nwiboko Obodo...