Word: junketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the Laotian legislature approved the installation of Prince Boun Oum as General Phoumi's candidate for Premier. Unofficially, the British, French and Indians have let it be known that they consider Souvanna the best of all possible Laotians. Two weeks ago, Souvanna took off on a junket to seek support in the world's capitals...
...Salt Lake City on a lecture junket, Boxer-turned-Restaurateur Jack Dempsey, 65, was routed from his bed by a fire at the Mormon Church-owned Hotel Utah. Evacuating his wife Deanna, said the former heavyweight champion, was one of the toughest fights of his career. "I guess she's like all women," shrugged Jack, who has been married four times. "She didn't want to leave the room without fixing her face." In Manhattan, where he will receive his master's degree in business administration from Columbia University next week, Captain Yehiel Aronowicz, 37, doughty onetime...
When the Air Force reported the plane lost, the Russians piously joined in the search. For ten days, until Khrushchev returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...
...such a situation Paz Estenssoro could not afford to give the impression of rejecting the Russian smelter offer out of hand. Nor did the U.S. expect him to. But as he prepped his officials for next month's mission, high officials leaked that the junket was aimed at ending the "myth of Russian help" as much as anything else...
...whipped up the local Reds to bloody excesses in the 1958 uprisings. Egypt's Nasser clearly prefers Russians just now, but the Chinese still maintain a large embassy in Cairo and 30 "newspapermen." In 1958 the crown prince of little Yemen came back from the standard junket to Peking with a $16 million long-term loan for construction of a textile plant and a modern highway over the mountains to the desert interior. In the city of Taiz, Red China is building a three-story legation, which will be the biggest diplomatic structure in town...