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...their cyclonic 17-day tour of Europe last April (TIME, April 20), Cohn said the trip had cost Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee "zero." Last week Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen revealed that the U.S. Government paid out more than one zero, with numbers attached, for the junket. Stassen said McCarthymen Cohn & Schine drew $74 a day each for personal expenses during their travels. That brought the Cohn-Schine personal expense accounts to a total of $2,540, plus free air transportation that would have cost paying customers an estimated $6,000. Announced purpose...
Your contributing editor Alvin Josephy's junket produced an incisive report . . . However, Josephy's use of the label "progressive conservatism" is as valid as a label "conservative Communism." Conservatism, understood, needs no sugar-coated shell such as "progressive" to be palatable...
...trick of assuming the shape of a shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn't feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue, but that is offset by Offenbach's tunes. At least two of them...
...service, must have looked to Gómez like one man who might stand up to him. He demanded that Acting President Urdaneta fire the army chief. Urdaneta made out a retirement order-to go into effect the minute Rojas left Bogotá airport last April on an airline junket to Germany. Rojas' baggage was already on the plane when a loyal officer brought word of the order. He canceled the flight, and the firing was held off for the time being, to avoid trouble with the army...
...stop on an eleven-country flying tour of Europe run by James L. Wick, board chairman of the Niles (Ohio) Daily Times (est. circ. 3,634), with interests in seven other small papers, and part owner of the travel bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly got permission from the Russians...