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Reading the poll, Goodie Knight announced in New York, where he was on a junket, that for President he would support 1) President Eisenhower if he decided to run again, 2) himself, as favorite-son candidate, if he does not, 3) Dick Nixon if Nixon wins Ike's nod and the G.O.P. nomination...
...Athens, Olympic games," Hollis snapped back with disdain. "You know you only want to go to Athens on a junket." Connolly restrained the reply on his lips...
...Moral Re-Armament: I have just read your July 18 article and subsequent letters to the Editor with regard to the 'junket" that 192 of the faithful have been making to the Far East and Africa. I had the greatest sympathy with the American taxpayer when I saw three U.S.A.F. transports at Nairobi ... I think it is disgraceful that Moral Re-Armament's The Vanishing Island should have been allowed to be put on at the National Theatre of Nairobi-whose charter clearly states that nothing of a political flavour can be shown in it. The play...
...Cosmic rays," said Professor H. V. Neher of Caltech, "have for years been regarded as a means of justifying travel to remote areas of the world." Dr. Neher's latest ray-hunting junket was to one of the world's least seductive places, the North Magnetic Pole in barren arctic Canada. Last week he told a Pasadena meeting of the American Physical Society about the results of the trip...
...Poggioli's teaching activities since then have not been limited to Harvard. Last year he won a Fulbright Scholarships and took a leave of absence to lecture at his alma mater in Florence. Just to keep busy, he also made a lecture junket throughout Italy under the auspices of the U.S. Information Office, and in his spare time he translated the Igor Tale, an old Russian epic, into Italian...