Word: protocol
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...Armstrong-Jones, showed up at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for a charity ballet performance. After crowds outside cheered and shouted, "God bless you both!" the couple moved inside to the royal box and a two-minute ovation from some 2,000 ballet goers. Trailing Margaret by the protocol-prescribed three paces, Tony showed that he had learned his lessons well. There was indeed a clear hint of who his tutor might be: acknowledging the applause, he kept his hands clasped behind him in a typical pose of Prince Philip's on such occasions. On the evening...
...Gorgeous Hussy") Eaton, the Irish barmaid who had married the Secretary of War, came calling, she was received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice President, probably ended Calhoun's chances to succeed Jackson...
...hotel's management had an anguishing problem of protocol. Johnson, the first incipient President to arrive, was lodged, as was his right, in the best suite, and Hubert Humphrey had to make do with the second-best suite. As soon as Johnson departed, Hubert was moved into the best suite. The advance team for Jack Kennedy was offered the second-best suite for their man, but the offer was declined. Jack preferred to be on the ground floor. The relieved room clerk assigned him to Room 103 and moved Missouri Representative Charlie Brown, the lonesome representative of absent Stuart...
...notes, all hands agreed that the warmest personal experience of all had been the visit to the Libertyville, Ill., home of Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably...
...Khrushchev's headline-hogging trip to the U.S., the visit last week from Italy's Prime Minister Antonio Segni was bound to be recorded on the inside pages. Indeed, Premier Segni was near to getting lost himself. Foul weather forced his Alitalia airliner into Boston, and U.S. protocol officers had to scoot up from Washington to pick him up and fly him back. When he finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover, a few Italians...