Word: junketings
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Then the padded shoulders and bun disappeared. Last month she dropped in on the starlet-studded Cannes film festival, went on to Paris for a chat with Andre Malraux. On her current junket, she touched down in Denmark, Iceland and then London, where the earl in question was the music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never...
Lyndon Johnson, nettled by reports that he swings a light bat in the Administration's lineup, is determined to shape up as its most powerful good-will ambassador. Tingling with the success of his recent junket to Senegal, he now hopes to tour Southeast Asia in early...
...Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington...
...majority of the Laotian legislature approved the installation of Prince Boun Oum as General Phoumi's candidate for Premier. Unofficially, the British, French and Indians have let it be known that they consider Souvanna the best of all possible Laotians. Two weeks ago, Souvanna took off on a junket to seek support in the world's capitals...
...Salt Lake City on a lecture junket, Boxer-turned-Restaurateur Jack Dempsey, 65, was routed from his bed by a fire at the Mormon Church-owned Hotel Utah. Evacuating his wife Deanna, said the former heavyweight champion, was one of the toughest fights of his career. "I guess she's like all women," shrugged Jack, who has been married four times. "She didn't want to leave the room without fixing her face." In Manhattan, where he will receive his master's degree in business administration from Columbia University next week, Captain Yehiel Aronowicz, 37, doughty onetime...