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Wrote Author Wouk: "I don't know whether the subjects of your cover stories usually receive the compliment in pleased silence, or what the protocol...
...protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal Salem, the Deputy Premier, was able to smooth over. Again, at a diplomatic conference in India, he became so annoyed at the protocol that denied him a place beside Nasser that he pointedly passed up one official function, and was later discovered by Nasser sulking alone in his automobile...
...likes to cook his own morning oatmeal, sometimes drinks plain hot water instead of coffee or tea. In Washington he and his second wife Rosina (his first marriage ended in divorce) live quietly in their own home near Chevy Chase; to avoid the capital rounds, they consulted a protocol expert for advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says wryly-dishwashing. He plays the guitar, likes chess and a careful game of bridge. He writes weekly to his children (two daughters and one son, a senior I.B.M. mathematician...
Portents & Protocol. The West listened with an uneasiness that was not yet dismay. The Russians, though they said it in friendly fashion, were clearly indicating that they have no intention of discussing Germany until Adenauer goes to Moscow -or, perhaps, until Adenauer is dead...
Eisenhower, leaning on the protocol fact that he is a head of state while the other Big Three are only chiefs of government, issued invitations, but accepted none from the other three. The first night, he had the Russians to dinner, greeting them with Mamie on the stone terrace overlooking the lake. He chatted with Zhukov, after dinner surprised the Russian by producing two wedding presents for his daughter-a desk pen inscribed "From the President of the United States, July 1955," and a portable U.S. radio -which he had hastily ordered after he learned of the marriage that morning...