Word: junketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a breathless CBS-TV audience, Hearst Newspapers National Editor Frank Conniff and his editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...
Died. George Criticos. 77, Greek-born friend of royalty and porter to the famous for more than 45 years at London's Ritz Hotel, who in 1932 chaperoned the then 21-year-old Aly Khan on a three-month American junket, and later moonlighted as his bet runner, placing more than $700,000 on the horses during the prince's last 27 years; of heart attack; in London. Criticized Criticos in his autobiography: "Millionaires are not usually very happy people, I have found. They're too full of worries about their wealth and health...
Then the padded shoulders and bun disappeared. Last month she dropped in on the starlet-studded Cannes film festival, went on to Paris for a chat with Andre Malraux. On her current junket, she touched down in Denmark, Iceland and then London, where the earl in question was the music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never...
Lyndon Johnson, nettled by reports that he swings a light bat in the Administration's lineup, is determined to shape up as its most powerful good-will ambassador. Tingling with the success of his recent junket to Senegal, he now hopes to tour Southeast Asia in early...
...Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington...