Word: junketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorcee, who is a $9,000 staffer on his House Education and Labor Committee. In Paris, Powell established his research headquarters at the fashionable Crillon hotel. In Greece, the Powell party enjoyed swimming and nightclubbing at a luxury seaside resort near Athens. As U.S. criticism of his jaunty junket mounted...
Sears's and Ward's travel prices are no lower than most; their appeal is convenience and installment buying-$6 per month for eleven months for a seven-day jaunt to Miami, $126 a month for 24 months for a junket to Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, Thailand, India and Egypt...
...wife and I were returning from a two-month junket through Spain. We wish to congratulate you on the excellent cover article, which is quite representative of present conditions...
...with the comforting news that their return tickets to England on June 20 would still be good. Once again in the U.S., the Woods were escorted aboard an American Airlines flight for Texas. Deplaning in Corpus Christi at last, Charlie Wood paused to reflect on his 12,000-mile junket, murmured: "Worse than Columbus...
After a careful weighing of all criteria, including time and distance traveled, experts on congressional expense accounts somewhat dazedly acclaimed a new record holder: Maryland's Democratic Congress man Richard E. Lankford, 47. On a 38-day junket that carried him from Honolulu to Scotland "to see how our military assistance program ties in with our defense effort," the eleventh-ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee managed, by his own account, to spend $3,597 on meals, hotels and "miscellaneous." When a reporter incredulously noted that all this averaged out at better than $11 a meal...