1.   But an initially cordial exchange turns ugly when Hamsun presses his nationalistic agenda, and Hitler loses patience and stomps out of the room.

2.   Fidel Castro on Monday offered the world a chance to eavesdrop on a falsely cordial exchange between heads of state and the behind-the-scenes choreography of a summit meeting.

3.   The president-elect and Kennedy had a cordial exchange once before, aides said, at the funeral last year of Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia.

4.   Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said they knew of no instance where such high-ranking officials from the two countries had had such a cordial exchange.

5.   According to the Turkish press, the initial acrimony has now been replaced by more cordial diplomatic exchanges between the two counties.