Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell, 54, a ten-term Congressman, has long offended the more tender sensibilities in Congress. What really got Powell's colleagues aroused was the junket he took to Europe last August. He went ostensibly to study the labor situation, or the Common Market, or something. As it turned out, the trip involved considerable research in French nightclubs and sunbathing in Greece in company with two young female aides. Powell's headline-making, who-cares manner of junketing called into criticism the whole system of congressional travels-and it was this that was not forgiven...
...load of reading matter on taxes or other Ways and Means business?he seldom reads anything that is not related in some way to the work of his committee. He has almost no diversions, has never taken a vacation trip, never traveled outside the U.S.; the only congressional junket he ever took was to nearby Baltimore. He and his wife Polly (they have two grown daughters) live in the same unfashionable apartment building that they moved into when they first went to Washington in 1939. Their Arkansas residence is a little one-bathroom house that might be the home...
Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy moved from a swimming holiday in the Virgin Islands to a skiing junket with Bobby (and families) at Aspen, Colo. But his office in Washington was already grinding out news releases as fast as anyone could say, "He Can Do MORE for Massachusetts." So far, Teddy's office had announced $135 million in new federal contracts, grants and loans for Massachusetts-with promises of more, more, more...
...will take all the American teachers in Africa many months to erase the scars left by Senator Ellender's thoughtless remarks during his recent African junket...
...University Students and the "Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba." There must be a test case--but it would be hard to imagine a worse one. The leader of the Ad Hoc Committee is a frank communist sympathizer, and because of the very nature of the junket, most of those who will accompany him will probably be communist sympathizers too. It is a shame that the State Department has made it necessary that those who care deeply about freedom will have defend it in the persons of so undeserving a bunch...