Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, neither reason applies to the students under indictment. Their safety was guaranteed by the Cuban government which was anxious to exploit their trip for propaganda purposes. Also, the Cubans paid the entire cost of the junket. Far from bringing dollars to Castro, the trip involved an outflow of pesos from Cuba. By contrast, newspapermen and others whom the State Department allows to go to Cuba spend money there...
...socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week, as the 58 prepared to return home, the U.S. prepared a welcome far hotter than Castro...
Unfortunately, the team won't be financially able to make such a junket. To make the trip to Bermuda, the players had to pay about $80 of their own money. Twenty-one club members went along, but despite this additional bench strength the team was near collapse at the end of the week...
Almost overlooked in the fast weekend transit was the ostensible purpose of the Thomson junket: to celebrate the first anniversary of the Sunday Times's color supplement. This flashy bit of New World journalism had drawn only derogatory cracks and a small hello when Thomson introduced it last year to an England used to tight little Sunday papers. "Roy Thomson has taught us something new in journalism," sneered Beaverbrook: "How we may have color without advertisements or alternately advertisements with color." The first issues were an arty mishmash, and the color supplement staggered along almost exclusively on Roy Thomson...
...first birthday, a junket to Moscow was scarcely needed to call attention to Roy Thomson's magazine section. It is now a brightly edited supplement, featuring such bylines as Ian Fleming and Lord Attlee, and the photography of Henri Carder-Bresson and Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon. The Sunday Times circulation is up 150,000 to 1,166,000, making it by far the largest quality Sunday newspaper in London...