Word: junketeering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employs 20,000 of Davis' constituents, the Georgian voted yes for the SST. Republican John Thomas Myers of Indiana was an easy switch. "He wants to go to the air show in Paris," a party leader said, meaning that the House leadership could prevent Myers from making the junket. Arends worked a different vein. "Nixon wants this," he repeated to his colleagues. "It's a grand thing to do in the long run." Later he confessed: "Sure, we squeezed-the best...
What this all will mean remains to be seen. Nixon himself has not yet read the report and will not, according to White House aides, until he returns from his European junket sometime next week...
...looks like a "mob-controlled congressman from Queens hoping to be taken for a Southern Senator." Fat lecture invitations are as available as women anxious to add a famous notch to their bedposts. In the three funniest adventures, Bech is sent by the State Department on a cultural-exchange junket behind the Iron Curtain. The tableaux of culturecrats in opulent neo-czarist settings undoubtedly come from Updike's memories of his own U.S.-sponsored tour of Russia in 1964. For Bech. the trip proves to be a sort of thinking man's "Mission: Impossible," in which Bech must...
...Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to marry Charlotte Ford, who bore him a daughter six months later. They were divorced within 15 months, after which Niarchos found his way back to Eugenia, said a friend, like "one of his own tankers drifting back to home port after a transatlantic junket...