Word: protocols
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...their best to dismantle old family relationships and left in their place all kinds of jerry-built structures and subtle gradations of involvement?permanent dates, semimarriages, platonic living together, genteel common-law shackups and serial polygamy. This profusion of mating arrangements brought on wonderfully baroque confusions of protocol: How to seat the husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead...
...marriage to King Hussein, 42. After the ceremony, says the former Lisa Halaby, she settled down in the palace with her husband's kids and the family pet camel, Fluffy, and faced her tough new job: being Queen. The King has not been much help on protocol, she says. He tells her: "I don't know what to do any better than you. Just be yourself...
...Protocol was first, and so Lee wittily reviewed the various Red Sox managers under who he has played. Lee felt he had his best year in 1972 when he compiled a 7-4 record out of the bullpen. "I was throwing the piss out of the ball, but Eddie Kasko wouldn't start me because he saw me wearing one of those 'Lick Dick in '72' shirts with the fake tounge on them...
WEDNESDAY. Carter takes a new tack. Ignoring protocol, he deals not with leaders but with their aides to work out technical details. Key aides: Egyptian Under Secretary of State Osama el-Baz and former Israeli Attorney General Aharon Barak. Carter keeps aides in session 10½ hours, sending out for tea and sandwiches. Begin walks in woods with Wife Aliza. Sadat too goes strolling again...
...Fellows include Sang Moon Chang, a South Korean diplomat and Chief of Protocol, Raymond M. Dafter, a British journalist, Peter Lynn Sinai, an Indian diplomat, and Kifle Wodajo, who resigned in 1977 as Foreign Minister in the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia...