Word: red-carpet
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...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
National's "Star" passengers will get the full red-carpet treatment, starting with a carpet on the loading ramp and recorded music at take-offs and landings. The specially decorated DC-6s will seat 56 people and will have a lounge (Eastern's smaller Constellations carry 60 passengers, some sitting three abreast), fresh flowers in the planes every day, and such features as hot hors d'oeuvres and linen napkins. Fares will be no higher than on other DC-6 flights...
...University of Kentucky has its own special brand of Southern hospitality. When visiting basketball squads arrive in Lexington, they get full red-carpet treatment (which often includes a tour of nearby horse farms). Then, like condemned men whose last hours on earth have been made easier, the visiting athletes are led off to the gym-and the execution...
Toast to Themselves. At a parliamentary lunch at Chateau Laurier, Harry Truman rose for an impromptu speech. He thanked his hosts for his red-carpet welcome and tigerish ovation. Then he raised his glass of port in a toast: "The Parliament of Canada." The M.P.s broke into 0 Canada, and followed it with five verses of Alouette, while Harry Truman beat out the rhythm on the table...
...Reckoning. As De Gaulle's four days in Washington ended, U.S. and French officials counted up their chips. French diplomats and the General himself were pleased by the full red-carpet treatment he had been given-everything short of recognition as the head of the French Government. On their part, U.S. officials were relieved that General de Gaulle had conducted himself with tact...