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...goes." Less than a month after the birth of her second child, Rhett (TIME, July 18), Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel cut a lissome figure in Bermuda, where she was gathering strength for an October stint in a Las Vegas pleasure dome. Asked if the Nevada jaunt augurs a nightclub career, Singer Munsel piff-poofed: "No! Las Vegas will mean only a onetime excursion into another field so that I can get some of the innate ham out of my system...
...combat its reputation as an expensive country, France is plugging the low-cost package tour, e.g., an eight-day jaunt from Paris through the Loire Valley, along the Riviera and back for $100, including all transportation, food and hotels. The French national railway now offers a 30% discount on trips of 950 miles or longer, provided that the tourist stays at his destination for six days or more. And the new issue of the famed Guide Michelin, which has always concentrated on quality rather than price, now lists more than 2,000 restaurants where a traveler...
...weather, Mamie Eisenhower, just recovered from the flu, was unable to make a scheduled appearance at the National Capital Flower and Garden Show. "I've been a lot of places in my life," Ike said as he took her place, "but this is my first jaunt to a flower show. If I make any mistakes, don't hold it against...
...wail, in later years-much as a lifer's wife might wail: "I had no idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway...
These travelers are not budding coal miners or glass blowers--even though Cornell has often been associated with the "practical" side of education. Nor is their trip just a weekly pleasure jaunt at Cornell's expense...