Word: protocol
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...some of the verses. Many African tribesmen, for example, are unaware that they are members of a nation, much less that they have a song to rise to. Nevertheless, the anthem is something no independent state can do without. Even if national pride did not demand one, international protocol would, and both the British and French, who between them have launched most of the world's new nations, have seen to it that even such remote places as Upper Volta have something to play. "When independence is clearly on the way," says a British colonial officer...
...more typical of his personality was the calm, winning grace with which he carried through the exhausting ritual of his visit-and with which he happily departed from protocol when the spirit moved him. There was visible friendship and affection in the two-handed gesture with which he saluted crowds, in the avuncular kiss with which he rewarded a child...
...orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they needed for that afternoon's game with the general and the ambassador...
...chance of a meeting with Johnson was cleverly made to seem a coincidence of timing, since protocol forbids that the President should drop everything to meet the head of a state that the U.S. does not recognize diplomatically. After the announcement of the Pope's trip, the White House revealed that L.B.J. had a "previously scheduled" engagement to dine with U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg on Oct. 3. Presumably, Johnson will stay overnight, meet the Pope either at Goldberg's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel or at the residence of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Among their possible topics...
...Counsel (senior barrister). Only one woman Q.C. has yet become a judge in one of Britain's nearly 400 county courts. Not surprisingly, the elevation of that same woman to the country's No. 3 tribunal, the High Court of Justice, has touched off a splendidly British protocol crisis...