Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delicatessen on the way up." The Chinese delegation was arriving at LaGuardia field, and an "Arrival" aide hurried out to meet them, only to find the plane landed and the dignitaries indistinguishably entangled with 55 welcoming Chinese. From another office in the Empire State Building, redheaded U.N. Protocol Chief Jehan de Noue darted constantly to LaGuardia to meet more distinguishable arrivals...
...Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
...same meticulous protocol applies at banquets and in billing. Hedda and Louella must sit equidistant from the principal speaker. In advertising displays, the problem is impossible to solve by simple geometry. Top billing is better than bottom, and left is better than right; so it has become customary to reproduce only one woman's blurb at a time...
...spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
...Ojike's deeds convincing. When he tried to register at a hotel in Iowa, he was told that Negroes were not welcome. "I beg your pardon," he replied haughtily, "I am a Black man from Nigeria." Ojike got the room. He was also initiated into American pomp and protocol, and discovered that by wearing Nigerian robes one could get admitted to many lily-white functions. But when he tried to enroll an African friend in the University of Chicago Medical School, Ojike ran into a form of democratic double-talk which plagues Negroes in supposedly tolerant Northern communities...