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...made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted by him with "There's hills in them thar gold." As for Hitchcock, he emphasized that there is protocol even in murder. "Nothing more revolts my sense of decency," he said, "than an underground character being able to murder people to whom he has not been properly introduced...
...astonishing that Mrs. Luce berates the press for reporting the facts of Richard Nixon's dismal career. Her sour-grapes ukase harks back to the Byzantine protocol that required the beheading of the messenger who bore evil tidings...
...then, can smokers unabashedly pollute the air? Why do non-smokers let them do it (particularly those 34 million in the U.S. that the American Medical Association estimates are sensitive to cigarette smoke)? Somehow, our sense of protocol and courtesy has been turned inside out. It is not considered rude to smoke in public; it is considered rude to ask someone not to smoke, or to answer "Yes" when asked, "Does anybody mind if I smoke?" Despite federal regulations requiring separate smoking and nonsmoking sections on trains and airplanes, it is considered rude to ask a passenger...
...Reign in Spain. Author Walter Curley is an investment banker who once served John Lindsay as New York City's chief of protocol. He points out in his genealogical mosaic that virtually all the monarchs-in-waiting are interrelated, and should at least have plenty to talk about. One can imagine a gold-plated dinner party for all the royals and their wives. But gad, sir, how to seat them? If the places were dispensed alphabetically, Bachelor King Leka I, 35, would have the honored position at either end of the table, since he is claimant to the throne...
...this nation may well be when the President and his Administration are forced out into that real world. There, the economy and the continuation of the traditional way of American life are not so promising. There, the rituals of inner Administration politics and the requirements of protocol do not blind one to Richard Nixon's leadership disaster...