Word: junketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a recording of his mildly rocking These Boots Are Made for Walking, which Nancy sang with all the cynical bite she could muster. Boots sold nearly 4,000,000 copies, and Nancy, outfitting herself with 250 pairs of boots, went stomping around the world on a promotional junket...
...Americans, the summer's travel will be a relatively short-range junket to Canada's Expo 67, the greatest show on earth this year. But for the millions more who want to wander farther afield, there is encouraging news that abroad better basic accommodations, more imaginative frills and a warmer welcome await them...
Inaugural Junket. Paying no public attention to the complaints, Aeroflot officials confidently predicted that 20,000 Americans would soon visit Russia annually and 20,000 Russians would head for the U.S., a good percentage of them aboard the ten-hour, 5,013-mile Pan Am and Aeroflot flights. While the 18,000 Americans who now annually visit Russia may increase somewhat, the number of traveling Russians will be nowhere near 20,000. Only 3,000 visited the U.S. last year, and almost all of them were in official parties...
Eventually he wangled trips to California to cover the Chicago Cubs' spring-training camp. On one such junket, in 1937, at the urging of a Hollywood starlet he had known in the Mid west, he took a screen test before heading home with the Cubs. The first day back, he got a wire: WARNER'S OFFER...
...leaves "hairs stuck around on the soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells the home...