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Unfortunately, the team won't be financially able to make such a junket. To make the trip to Bermuda, the players had to pay about $80 of their own money. Twenty-one club members went along, but despite this additional bench strength the team was near collapse at the end of the week...
Powell, 54, a ten-term Congressman, has long offended the more tender sensibilities in Congress. What really got Powell's colleagues aroused was the junket he took to Europe last August. He went ostensibly to study the labor situation, or the Common Market, or something. As it turned out, the trip involved considerable research in French nightclubs and sunbathing in Greece in company with two young female aides. Powell's headline-making, who-cares manner of junketing called into criticism the whole system of congressional travels-and it was this that was not forgiven...
Almost overlooked in the fast weekend transit was the ostensible purpose of the Thomson junket: to celebrate the first anniversary of the Sunday Times's color supplement. This flashy bit of New World journalism had drawn only derogatory cracks and a small hello when Thomson introduced it last year to an England used to tight little Sunday papers. "Roy Thomson has taught us something new in journalism," sneered Beaverbrook: "How we may have color without advertisements or alternately advertisements with color." The first issues were an arty mishmash, and the color supplement staggered along almost exclusively on Roy Thomson...
...first birthday, a junket to Moscow was scarcely needed to call attention to Roy Thomson's magazine section. It is now a brightly edited supplement, featuring such bylines as Ian Fleming and Lord Attlee, and the photography of Henri Carder-Bresson and Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon. The Sunday Times circulation is up 150,000 to 1,166,000, making it by far the largest quality Sunday newspaper in London...
...load of reading matter on taxes or other Ways and Means business?he seldom reads anything that is not related in some way to the work of his committee. He has almost no diversions, has never taken a vacation trip, never traveled outside the U.S.; the only congressional junket he ever took was to nearby Baltimore. He and his wife Polly (they have two grown daughters) live in the same unfashionable apartment building that they moved into when they first went to Washington in 1939. Their Arkansas residence is a little one-bathroom house that might be the home...