Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes jokingly plastered the team's lockers with pictures of air crashes. Even so, many an envious rooter turned out to see the 35 members of the team, four coaches, the manager, doctor and a sportswriter from the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune off on the big junket...
...longest papal junket (more than 100 miles round trip) since Pius IX's horsecarriage tour of the Roman countryside in 1857, Pope John XXIII, 79, climbed into the armchair seat of his Chrysler, donated by U.S. Catholics, at 6:15 a.m. one morning last week. The purpose of the trip: a sentimental journey to the seminary at Roccantica where 56 years ago he said the second mass of his career. After admiring the olive-groved Sabine Hills through the plexiglas top of his speeding (frequently at more than 60 miles per hour) limousine, the Pope was greeted by townspeople...
...classic comics arrived ashore safely last week under different circumstances. While Harold Lloyd, 66, disembarked from the United States-natty and refreshed-after a four-month European junket with the family, Bert Wheeler, 65, had to be fished-saturated and exhausted-from Long Island Sound 40 minutes after his boat capsized...
...Next week Hupp's Gibson Refrigerator Division of Greenville, Mich, will spend nearly $2,000,000 to charter 31 Pan American 707 jets to fly 5,080 dealers from 23 U.S. cities to Honolulu for a sales convention; General Electric has chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses to and from the U.S. for stud service...
...landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons. He indulged his love of cognac in all-night drinking bouts, threatening to flatten anyone who dared doubt his boxing ability. When he left on his Cuban junket three weeks ago, Maruca, who had urged him to go, stayed behind...