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Into the neon-lighted Cottage Inn restaurant-motel on teeming U.S. Highway 40 north of Baltimore last week walked Pedro Sanjuan, 31, assistant chief of protocol of the U.S. State Department, on a troubled mission. The day before, the inn had refused to seat and serve a Nigerian diplomat, and Nigeria had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Government. Sanjuan had come to ask the Cottage Inn to reconsider its segregation policy-and he was loudly rebuffed. "The hell with the United Nations and the hell with your colored diplomats!" shouted beefy, red-faced Proprietor Clarence Rosier. "I built...
Robert Kennedy had called the club's color bar "inconceivable." Other top administrative officials who quit the Metropolitan Club to protest its ban of African diplomats include Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol, and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...
Despite his impatience, Kennedy played his public role of host with scrupulous attention to protocol. At Andrews Air Force Base, a starched, trim five-service honor guard and an Air Force band stood by when Kennedy helicoptered in to await Sukarno's chartered jet. But there was no ceremonial motorcade and no elaborate state dinner...
Prized Possession. At the first chance, Bobby and wife Ethel, the sprightly mother of seven, ducked away from the protocol circuit to tour the Ivory Coast's back-country villages with the same nice-to-see-you smile and handshake that had served his brother Jack so well in the 1960 campaign wilds of West Virginia. Bobby enthusiastically applauded a tribal stilts dancer, was offered another village's prized possession-a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label. Cried Bobby: "Vive la Côte d'lvoire!" Replied a tribesman in perfect English: "Very good...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...