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...great educative experiences in the Peace Corps is that of being faced with impossible tasks. It should be understood that the Peace Corps is no exotic junket, made socially defensible by primarily physical strenuousness. What it does do is put people into positions of awesome and complicated responsibility...
...Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is running for President of the United States. Although no formal announcement was forthcoming, the clear message of McCarthy's political junket to New England and the Midwest last weekend was that the Senator is a candidate. His public statements all but acknowledged his candidacy, and his private remarks left no question...
...staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree booze, "compliments of Magic Carpet." By the time of the denouement in Ljubljana, ?5,000 worth of liquid hospitality has been consumed. While they drink, Frayn mocks but does...
...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...