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Although the score may indicate otherwise, the Ivy seniors didn't concentrate much on the game during their eight-day Pacific junket. The players brought along a cameras and camcorders, but the equipment got more use at tourist sites than at the game...
Almost everything Bush did on last week's eight-day junket was good and even necessary, urgent business he had pushed back during the U.S. budget struggle and the election. In Wenceslas Square, Bush's evocative words raised a great roar: "There are no leaves on the trees, and yet it is Prague spring. There are no flowers in bloom, and yet it is Prague spring." In the huge crowd, vendors sold copies of the U.S. Constitution for 8 Czech crowns (30 cents) each...
...likely to get done? Many past summits, in fact, produced results as barren as the North Texas Panhandle. If the chief executives of the world's most powerful economies simply spend three days hammering out a pious communique and frolicking at rodeos and barbecues, then maybe this form of junket should ride off into the sunset...
...response to the journalistic junket of Michael Stankiewicz entitled "Walsh Transactions Criticized" in the August 18, 1989 issue of The Crimson, let the following be noted...
...custom-made suits. Savage not only gave short shrift to the official meetings that were the ostensible purpose of his tour, but also cut short his visit so he could devote three days to sightseeing and fittings in Hong Kong and Seoul. Total cost of the 16-day junket, which also included Japan: $6,731, presumably not including his haberdashery bill...