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...running, grasping crowds give massive support to the making of an image. As violent contrast, the movie cuts with maudlin frequency to Kennedy's funeral preparations in Washington. Every sequence is anguishing, relentlessly focused on the ordeal of a benumbed young widow guiding her children through the protocol of official grief...
...night, calling at the Indian Embassy ostensibly to make a brief farewell visit, the President stayed so long talking with Mrs. Gandhi that he was finally invited to remain for the black-tie dinner. "I'm happy to be asked," said the business-suited Johnson, thus causing a protocol scramble and breaking his own practice of never accepting reciprocal invitations from state visitors...
Symington, 38, who since last May served as the President's adviser on juvenile delinquency, started running the moment he was sworn in last week as the State Department's Chief of Protocol, succeeding Lloyd Hand, who resigned to enter California politics. He had been in office less than an hour when he presented Sudan's new ambassador, Amin Ahmed Hussein, to the President. Apart from preparing for Mrs. Gandhi's visit, Symington was also busily readying himself to handle the myriad problems of the 113 foreign mission chiefs in Washington-his new "constituency," as Johnson...
...Time to Learn." Symington shares his wife's belief in personal diplomacy, still talks about the time he invited an Asian student for dinner. "He couldn't believe it," the new protocol chief related. "He said he'd been in this country three years and had never been invited to an American home." From such ex periences came a lesson later conveyed in a song the Symingtons composed by the swimming pool of their comfortable white house in Georgetown. "It takes time to know your neighbor on the other side," runs one verse. "Time to learn...
...portray himself as a poor backwoodsman, Faubus has been embarrassed by adverse comment on his new $280,000 home and, in any case, he has good reason to fear Rockefeller, who pressed him strongly in 1964. - Lloyd Hand, 37, who resigned abruptly as Washington's Chief of Protocol (see The Administration), became Contender No. 3 for the Democratic nomination for California's Lieu tenant Governor. His candidacy further embarrassed Governor Pat Brown, who perfunctorily supported Incumbent Glenn Anderson before Newspaper Publisher Thomas W. Braden, his close friend and appointee to the State Board of Education, decided to enter...