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...Chief of Protocol Wiley T. Buchanan, spent a day yachting and water-skiing-the prince on a single ski, no less-dropped in at West Point and Annapolis...
...there is a maverick in every outfit; Reporter Roger Simmons of the Florence News nourished a newsman's distaste for military regulations and was unspoiled by Washington obeisance to protocol. Ignoring the ban, he climbed a barrier and assaulted the stands where McNamara was watching an airdrop of 4,000 paratroopers...
...Beechcraft Bonanza air taxi en route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to East Hampton, L.I., crashed as it was attempting to land after a door came open on take-off (four dead−including Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the State Department chief of protocol). As a possible reason for the crash, CAB suggested that the roar of air rushing past the open door space may have panicked one of the three women passengers into interfering with the controls or the pilot...
...Conservatives were especially shocked by the brusqueness of the changes," MacArthur declared, "and everyone was a little bit hurt because the protocol of dismissal was thrown aside...
Removing the Doubt. In 1937 Roosevelt named Black to the Supreme Court-partly because Black was the sort of liberal that F.D.R. wanted, partly because protocol would make his rejection by the Senate almost impossible. Opposition to Black's appointment was great, but it rose to a crescendo after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dug up proof that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for two years. (The reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for his revelation.) Like some other Southern politicians, Black had joined the Klan to further his career. But, he explained...