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Boyd needed that document and he was glad to go through tribal protocol to get it. As editor of the projected 52-volume Papers of Thomas Jefferson, he was reaching for everything that Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
...Argentine diplomat blew a whistle in a New Delhi nightclub one evening last week. Results: most of the protocol officers in India's foreign office lost their Saturday afternoon holiday, armed policemen were called out to patrol the Imperial Hotel, a bearded Briton was booked for assault and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in the midst of an international incident...
...Protocol experts in the Siamese government wondered whether Phumiphon Adundet should sign the marriage register as "government official" or "King" when he weds Princess Sirikit. Finally they worked out a compromise: Phumiphon will be described as "ruler of the country...
Afterward came the studio's biggest protocol headache: a party at Mike Romanoff's restaurant, which can hold only 250-of the very best people, of course. When it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to comment on a bad new movie: "What a picture! What a performance!" Fox figured that, all in all, it was well worth...
...Last week, Chancellor Adenauer formally committed his country to the new Western policy of making something good of the Germans. In a quiet, unceremonious business session atop the Petersberg, overlooking the new German capital at Bonn (pop. 110,000), Adenauer and the Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...