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Pursuing his presidential hopes westward, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller landed at Salt Lake City, where he and his wife were greeted by a listless crowd of 100. Then they went off to pay a protocol call on officials of the Mormon Church. Mormon First President David O. McKay, 90, greeted Happy as "Mrs. Roosevelt...
Anyone can ring up the State De partment's helpful Protocol Division to find out who is outranking whom lately. But people who are in the know use as their bible a bright green, suede-backed copy of Carolyn Hagner Shaw's Social List of Washington, D.C. ($17.50 the copy). Last week the chic in Washington were busily thumbing through the brand-new edition of the "Green Book," scanning its 7,000 names to see who, if anyone, had been moved above or below the salt...
...Canterbury Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York was granted the lesser title Primate of England; the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Donald Coggan is the incumbent. Primacy does not make Canterbury head of his church (the Queen is). Yet as first bishop of England, he ranks, in protocol, next to the royal family and ahead of the Prime Minister; as much as anyone, he speaks the mind of the Church of England...
...this all-important Dean? Well, he is Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, little Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. By virtue of having served in Washington longer than any other foreign ambassador, Sevilla-Sacasa is the "Dean of the Corps." As such, he acts as adviser, style setter, protocol arbiter and ceremonial representative for the capital's entire ambassadorial corps. Dean since 1958, Sevilla-Sacasa attends about 600 official functions a year, greets every chief of state who visits Washington. To avoid contretemps, he has to remember the names, faces and precise protocol standings of each of the 111 other...
...once spent a few queasy minutes getting used to the pachyderm pace. Though a certain tension had developed between Galbraith and his colleagues back home in Foggy Bottom, he declared himself "pleased, extremely pleased" with his tour of duty. India apparently was pleased too. In a rare break with protocol, Prime Minister Nehru publicly lauded Galbraith. "I am sorry he is going. He is a brilliant man and has helped India in many ways. We are thankful to him for all that he has done...