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Tito summed up what may be the underlying purpose of his junket in telling Yugoslav newsmen who accompanied him: "The general impression from these countries is that they firmly will adhere to their attitude on foreign policy problems and international relations, that they are uncommitted and independent countries, and that they fight to lessen international tension...
...since the showy junket of Khrushchev and Bulganin three years ago had India staged such a gaudy welcome. At the New Delhi airport last week, crowds surged forward and nearly smothered their guest from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
Togged up like a leftover from Hans Brinker, oracular Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey relaxed in triumph after his headline-grabbing junket...
...America was pulled out onto the apron while 6,000 guests looked on. An hour later the plane screamed down a 7,000-ft. runway and off to Baltimore, where it took aboard 41 notables (including Pan Am President Juan Trippe and 33 newspaper and magazine executives) for a junket to Brussels. Just seven hours and 19 minutes after leaving Baltimore, it landed on the rainswept runway at Brussels' Melsbroek Airport. Average speed: 540 m.p.h...
...cops, many of whom make less than $300 a month and are in the market for a little extra spending money. Rebels admit privately that the officers "give us the vista gorda"-ihe blank, unseeing eye. Nor do the police play favorites. Three Dade County deputy sheriffs junket down to Batista's Cuba, come home bragging openly that "it didn't cost a cent; we got the red-carpet treatment." Marcos Pérez Jimenez, former dictator of Venezuela, gains the gratitude of Miami Beach policemen by hiring them at fat fees to spend off-duty hours watching...