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...Japanese were the first Asian people to turn from the ceremonial, protocol-stiff sports (sumo, jujitsu) of their past to more competitive Western athletics. They have also consistently produced the only
According to luncheon protocol no candidate could mention another, but Millie Younger, whose brains and looks delighted the 1952 Republican Convention (TIME, July 21, 1952), felt she had to challenge Tenney's bland assertion that "I have never been connected in any way with Gerald L. K. Smith." As the lunch ended, she went up to Tenney, snapped: "I'm disgusted with you." Replied Tenney: "Likewise...
...house, high in Beverly Hills' celebrity-studded Coldwater Canyon. Last week he had the house up for sale. In his intense and single-minded haste to go on conquering Hollywood, he has not even found time to use his swimming pool. "Jack," says Stanley Meyer, the protocol-conscious business manager of Webb's Mark VII Productions, "would live in one room with a cot and a movie projector...
State Department protocol officers whispered that Baker was the host, after all, and pointed out that McCarran would have the honor of introducing Bayar. "I will not!" raged Pat. "I'll walk out first." The day was saved by Orhan Eralp, director general of Turkey's Foreign Ministry, who has been acting as President Bayar's interpreter. Eralp offered McCarran his seat, at Bayar's side, and perched on a stool behind the President. Pat agreed to stay. After the dinner President Bayar offered Mayor Baker his thanks and sympathies. Through the displaced interpreter, he said...
...give in to the Russians on all five disputed articles if only the conference could get to a peace treaty. Eden concurred, and Dulles was about to. That left no obstacle to signing the existing treaty. Flustered, Molotov retreated like an alarmed squid, throwing off black clouds of protests, protocol, and procedural double talk. "We must not get in a muddle," he protested...