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...celebrate the event, the Kennedy Administration joined New York's political elite in paying lavish tribute. The occasion was a $12.50-a-plate testimonial dinner sponsored by a "Committee of One Thousand" (honorary chairman: Kennedy's protocol chief, Angier Biddle Duke) and the congregation...
Arthritis & Wounds. Writing for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the surgeon-anthropologist describes how he got Joseph Farland, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, to talk the Dominicans into opening the tomb in 1959. "With exacting protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once...
...Ecuador and Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77,000 sq. mi.) as Ecuador itself. For 400 years the tract had been claimed by both nations. Then, in 1942, the U.S. -along with Brazil, Argentina and Chile - promoted a settlement, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro, based on Peru's de facto control. Under the protocol, the four nations were also to serve as guarantors of the peace...
Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...
...subjects eager to display loyalty, and some simply picked out by the monarch himself-were more than companions to King Lukengu. They sang his praises, danced at his orders, embroidered the exquisite raffia tapestries on the walls of his jungle palace, and when he sneezed they applauded. as royal protocol prescribes. But most important of all, they were obliged to support him-to supply him with food and all his other needs...