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Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
...White House by helicopter nearly ran into a snag with Liberia's Tubman, who is distrustful of planes and came to the U.S. by boat. But Kennedy aides tactfully suggested that Tubman might like to see autumnal Washington from the air-and he agreed. Disregarding strict protocol, Kennedy arrived at the front door of the White House five minutes early for a luncheon with Tubman, quizzed the leader of the Marine band about what music he intended to play. Tubman was treated to a four-hour talk with Kennedy, a visit to the National Zoo (Tubman has a small...
...Kennedys' social activities keep the State Department's protocol division so busy that Protocol Chief Angier Biddle Duke, weary after making arrangements for two official visits in one week, last week fell asleep at the luncheon for the Kekkonens. Ordinarily that would have been a social disaster-but Kennedy's guests were having such a good time that hardly anyone noticed the lapse...
...political maps are sound, if unexceptional. Following State Department protocol, such divided countries as North and South Korea, North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, China are shown in one color-since by U.S. policy they are all really single nations. Thus the Cold War's most crucial boundaries end as unobtrusive red lines. And by omitting any map of the old African colonial empires, the atlas fails to dramatize the most important change of the last 15 years in the world's political maps-the breaking up of the old empires into 24 new nations...
...obvious one. After nine months spent boning up on Monsanto's British subsidiary, Garrels arrives in his paneled London office at a tradition-shattering 9 a.m. (at least an hour before most Britons), keeps his office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover of $60 million in the face of government belt tightening. Garrels feels that the British economy "lacks fat." Says he: "Whenever it gets rolling, the government steps in to control...