Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greeted the visitor with warm handshakes, and Dulles' wife Janet smilingly handed Sefiora Elena de Frondizi a bouquet of red roses. Then, in keeping with the printed "Inclement Weather Plan" of the State Department's think-of-everything protocol section, visitors and greeters hurried into National Airport's Hangar No. 10 to get on with the formalities of welcome...
...Cadillac sped through back streets and made it safely to the former Royal Palace, which now houses the Sovereignty Council. As protocol demanded. Rountree signed the official visitor's book, but then both Americans made the error of lingering for a half-hour of coffee drinking and talk with junior officials. It was enough time for the mob leaders to shunt their hoodlums across town by truck. As Rountree and Fritzlan left the palace, their car was nearly overwhelmed...
...lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
...Vice President watched the Queen dedicate the American Memorial Chapel, built out of British funds contributed by British families in the austerity-thin days after World War II. After that he lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill had been invited to visit Ike in Washington in May, and might accept. And that night in the 500-year-old Guildhall, where General Eisenhower made his famed 1945 victory speech, Nixon...
...Believe." Michiko was not always so sure about her feelings for Akihito ("I do love him," she told a friend. "His sincerity won me over.") Perhaps she was aware of the grueling education in protocol and punctilio that lies ahead. Always the sensible girl, who once earned the nickname "Antelope" because of her bouncy, athletic ways, she was valedictorian of her class and president of the students' committee at Tokyo's University of the Sacred Heart (though she is not a Roman Catholic). She wrote her thesis on The Forsyte Saga, insisted on typing every...