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...comes from nine years of practice, Huskey began grappling with the schedule and security arrangements for the royal visit 2½ months ago. First he was called in for a series of conferences with the royal advance agent, the ambassadors of Great Britain and Canada, and State's protocol experts. His was the voice that advised how much sightseeing could be accomplished in the time at hand, where the capital crowds would be thickest and where the risks would be greatest...
...Payoff of Protocol. In the banquets and speeches that followed, the Indonesians were polite but not Reddish; they have been having Communist trouble at home. The Burmese did a little better: their chief delegate toasted Mao and denounced the U.S. But the real payoff for the Reds came from Pandit Sundarlal, who had arrived in Peking proclaiming that India wants China's friendship, but also America's and Britain's. He had been "deeply impressed," he said, by what he saw: "Every Indian knows that the Soviet Union stands for peace, that China stands for peace...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
...family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which...
When they got word that five-star Generals Omar Bradley and George C. Marshall were checking into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, current residence of five-star General Douglas MacArthur, and that Vice President Alben W. Barkley was also arriving, hotel protocol experts went into a huddle, reached a solution that seemed to satisfy everyone. MacArthur's red five-star flag, usually flown at the front entrance, was moved around to another door in honor of all three generals. The white Veep flag (13 stars and the American eagle) was hoisted over the main door. But later the experts...