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...chosen as host because no summit had been held under his auspices since 1975. When he issued the invitations for last week's gathering, he stressed the "personal and informal" nature of the talks. He then set some unusual ground rules in an attempt to avoid the protocol restrictions common at such high-level conferences. Banned were all official minutes and tape recordings of the sessions. Left behind at home were Cabinet ministers because, as one French official explained, "they always show up with all of their files." Although there were the usual legions of security personnel and communications...
...Russians also returned to the question of the duration of the protocol that is to accompany the main SALT II treaty. This separate document limits technological advances in strategic weaponry. Because technology is one of the few areas in which the U.S. has maintained a significant lead over the U.S.S.R., the Kremlin would like the protocol to last as long as possible. For the same reason, Washington wants to keep it short. While both sides have agreed that the protocol will run for three years, they cannot agree on when the three-year period should begin. The Soviets argue that...
...slapped me and said, 'There are no classes in America!' Then she said, 'Of course there are, but we never talk about it.' " Most Americans have only a spectator's interest in the problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol of inviting gay couples to a party. The Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning is not affronted when her husband fails to pull out her chair at dinner. She settles for watching reruns of the butler Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs and for the knowledge that...
...sometimes unique in the problems of protocol and manners it presents. Example: the nude after-dinner soak in the host's hot tub, as its waters are roiled by a Jacuzzi. Californians manage to maintain a casual dignity rather well; the rules are fairly well established and usually observed. They start from the presumption that not everyone may be inclined to participate. Therefore neither the host nor hostess may be the first to strip, nor may they even suggest it. Rather, convention requires what seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should...
Back in the U.S., Baldrige became Tiffany's first woman executive, their public relations director. When the Kennedys moved into the White House, Tish became Jackie's social secretary, as well as J.F.K.'s protocol officer. She loved the work, although she was disconcerted to find that practically every man who took her out was playing her for a power angle at the White House. She became promotions director at the Kennedys' Merchandise Mart in 1963, then opened her own p.r. company in Chicago. Six years later she folded it to go to New York City...