Word: protocol
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...protocol-minded, precedence-conscious nation's capital, there appeared the book of the year, the annual Social List of Washington, which ineluctably determines how high or low high-living Washington partygoers will eat at their friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign...
...connivance of both families, the two youngsters were brought together by purposeful accident-the young King on his yacht, the Princess in her family villa-for a summer of waterskiing, swimming, partying and spooning along Istanbul's fashionable Bosporus shore. Soon Feisal completely forgot the requirements of royal protocol, and popped the question without a by-your-leave from his government ministers or the girl's own family. "The two of them got engaged first and then asked if we approved," said Prince Mohammed Ali. "We said...
Winter Wait. It was only after he returned to Baghdad that Feisal remembered protocol long enough to send the Premier of Iraq and the Chief of the Royal Palace hotfooting to Istanbul with a large diamond and emerald engagement ring...
...matter how whimsical or wellborn. But in these days, when Baden-Baden's hotelkeepers concentrate on the methodical ranks of Germany's industrial aristocracy, who make their bookings well in advance, no one was quite prepared for the telephone call that came from the West German protocol office...
...Ozark pixy in Harry S. Truman got the better of him when he surprised Stanley Woodward, his old chief of protocol at the State Department, by meeting him aboard the Ille de France on Woodward's return from Europe and playfully having an official misinform him that his passport had been canceled. After the laughter (mostly Harry's) had subsided, Truman continued his week's visit in Manhattan at a nostalgic, noon-to-twilight reunion luncheon (shrimps, lobster, steak) of members and staff of the Senate's World War II committee to investigate the national defense...