Word: protocol
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...favored flower -were arrayed around Blair House. As to whether Indira Gandhi should address the all-male National Press Club or the ladies' press corps or both, it was diplomatically decided that a joint session was called for. Executing such arrangements would be delicate even for old protocol hands. Yet this week's state visit-the first ever by a woman Premier-marked a last-minute premiere for a novice. Unruffled, James Wadsworth Symington recalls his stint as a Marine private. Said he: "You learn that you always 'land running...
...officials who attend diplomatic receptions where "counterrevolutionary jokes" are told. At such gatherings, huffed Fidel, obscene stories are a "common occurrence." With that, the regime announced that henceforth all invitations to diplomatic wingdings must not be sent directly to governmental guests, but instead to the foreign ministry's protocol department for prior screening...
Surprisingly, Madrid Bureau Chief Piero Saporiti had little trouble setting up an interview between the Generalissimo and the managing editor, but there were rigid conditions. The talks would be off the record, cover only generalities, and last exactly ten minutes. That was the word from protocol. But Franco himself prolonged the spirited session to 54 minutes, discussed freely and in detail such subjects as Viet Nam, NATO and the Soviet Union...
...Shiina goes to Moscow this week to sign Russo-Japanese air and trade agreements, and, he, too, promised to urge upon the Kremlin the U.S. brief. Pope Paul, continuing the Vatican's campaign for an end to hostilities, announced he was ready to "attempt any means, beyond usual protocol" to facilitate peace...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953. Kennedy fleetingly considered Bundy as a possibility for Secretary of State, but finally installed him in a cluttered basement office in the White House that came to be known as "the little State Department." Under Kennedy, who cared little for rigid protocol or strict administrative lines of organization, Bundy often had more influence on foreign policy decisions than Dean Rusk himself. He nonetheless disclaimed any interest in power for power's sake. "I'm no man's competitor," Bundy said recently, "I'm everybody's catalyst...