Word: protocol
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...Stevenson has caught Mort Sahl's act more than a dozen times in Chicago, and the two have become fast-tongued friends. Last week, Sahl recalled a recent visit to the gentleman farmer's diggings at Libertyville. "He doesn't stand on ceremony or have any protocol, and yet the dignity is indigenous. Only trouble is he's so charming he usually steals your girl...
...never felt closer to Crown Princess Michiko, a mill owner's daughter who married the heir to an empire. Suga, who is delighted with the freedom she has found outside the palace as plain Mrs. Hisanaga Shimazu, sympathizes with Michiko in her struggle to observe palace protocol, feels that Michiko is "working too hard" in her efforts to live up to her role. Suga advises Michiko to "relax," helps her in her many tasks. Most recently, Suga has been buzzing all over Tokyo in her Datsun Bluebird, a Japanese compact, to shop for Michiko's forthcoming U.S. trip...
Last week Madame Blouin, who now holds the official title of Chief of Protocol in the Congo government, was peddling her views to dozens of Congolese politicians who streamed through her office which adjoins Lumumba's residence. As chief speechwriter for Deputy Premier Gizenga, she also whipped up the tirade against the U.N. and the West which Gizenga delivered at a banquet honoring Dag Hammarskjold's arrival...
...miss the department bowling or card session occasionally, then more frequently. ¶ Accept invitations to subordinates' homes at first, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then do not accept at all. ¶ Give wives more time to pull away from friendships, since they "don't understand the protocol of office organization because they aren't exposed to it daily...
Before Britons' eyes, the glitter of the wedding was fading. Even the palace itself seems determined to downgrade it. For the first time in the memory of protocol experts, civilian guests will be permitted to wear lounge suits if they do not prefer to honor the occasion with morning dress. The route to and from Westminster Abbey will be so short-it can be walked in seven minutes-that the waiting crowds will have little opportunity to cheer. Royalty abroad was behaving coolly. Margaret's closest European relative, King Olaf of Norway, sent his regrets and those...