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...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...
...United Nations Dag Hammarskjold, who had accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication, also will not come to the Law School. Hammarskjold customarily remains in New York while the UN remains in session, and his original acceptance of the Law School's invitation represented a break with traditional protocol...
Even the solo performances took on the glamour of major production. New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman and Eleanor Roosevelt, both Khrushchev's guests in Russia who doubtless had said politely, "Come and see me if you're ever in America," found themselves with protocol-sized problems-Harriman with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided...
...their royal palace at Pnompenh one evening last week, Cambodia's King Norodom Suramarit and Queen Kossamak paused for a moment before leaving their private apartment behind the throne room. The acting protocol chief of the royal household, Prince Norodom Vakrivan, had just brought in a package newly arrived from Hong Kong. The accompanying card said that it contained a "gift for the King and queen" from a U.S. engineering company that had helped build the 134-mile Cambodian-American Friendship Highway running from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville...
...TRADE TROUBLES in West Germany are growing as German firms refuse to abandon traditional sources to buy Soviet raw materials under 1959 trade protocol calling for 50% increase in Russo-German trade. Germans speculate that Soviets will recall their trade councilor in disgrace because of program's failure...