Word: protocol
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...first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
Soon afterward, the ambassador returned to Cairo to voice his protest in person to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. Fawzi cut him short by pointing out that diplomatic protocol permits a non grata ambassador to see a Foreign Minister for only one reason-to say goodbye. Spluttering Tugay thereupon gave a farewell banquet to which not one Egyptian was invited. "You will not see me again in this dirty place," he told his guests...
Prasad with his cutaway and striped pants still in transit from the U.S. The honor of U.S. protocol was saved only by the fact that the obliging Italian ambassador happened to have the same suit size...
...desk to wade through a mountain of documents to acquaint himself with the job he will hold for seven years. But since outgoing President Vincent Auriol is still in office, Coty stays out of sight at all diplomatic ceremonies so no one will be confused by double-headed protocol. Last week France's Presidents, old and new, worked together on another matter: to keep the government of Premier Joseph Laniel on its feet for the Four Power Conference at Berlin...
...Europe, as a corporal, he literally ran the education and information services for a combat general who was boss on paper. High level conferences saw generals and admirals ducking out of closed rooms to get advice from the thin, be-spectacled enlisted man who waited in the hall because protocol would not allow him inside...