Word: protocolic
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...custom of kissing has spread from showfolk to the general population, it has raised innumerable, if minute, questions of rite and protocol. Who initiates the kiss? In a kiss between a man and woman, quite often it is the woman who makes the first move - offering her hand, inclining her cheek. But if the man is, say, the woman's boss or her husband's boss, she may wait until he leans forward into that critical distance with in which the kiss occurs...
...Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister of finance and petroleum, Abdul-Aziz Bin Khalifa Al−Thani, went to the airport to accord him a proper protocol. "I am going to meet the big star," he smilingly told reporters...
More startling are the social changes. Since my card will go to no more than half a dozen or so bona fide nuclear American families, it has been selected with little thought for that sturdy but dwindling sector of the populace. The other folks require a special kind of protocol. On my list, for example, are a number of unmarried men and women who are living together. A single card will go to each couple; it will be enclosed in an envelope addressed to both. What about single women who are practically living with married men? Two cards, individually addressed...
With sheer hard work and a whopping $950,000 (v. Symington's $550,000), he closed the gap. Rural Missourians, unimpressed by Symington's credentials as a former U.S. Chief of Protocol, voted for Litton in droves, and a last-minute TV blitz cut into Symington's margin in metropolitan St. Louis...
...Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs of the event and the difficulties imposed by protocol, did manage to make a couple of nice observations. They disclosed that in unguarded moments, the Queen has a truly sweet, curiously girlish smile. They also showed that the only glamorous male present, Gary Grant, can look as forlorn and out of it as any mere mortal when...