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...National Association of Home Builders last autumn, he invited ten top Russian housing administrators for a 30-day tour of 13 U.S. cities. Returning the compliment this summer, the Russians conducted San Francisco's Smith and 17 other American building experts on a Red-carpeted, 30-day junket through Soviet cities, gave them the best look at Soviet building that any U.S. group has ever had. Back in London last week the builders reported that Soviet construction moves at an impressively frantic pace, but that the workmanship is shoddy, the hand tools often primitive, the materials frequently second-rate...
...missed: the land of his ancestors, Central Africa. The entertainment possibilities were just too colorful to miss, so CBS shelled out some $25,000 to send Armstrong, his five-man All-Stars and a camera crew to the city of Accra, the Gold Coast, for a three-day junket. The results were as good as expected. "After all," explained Louis, "my descendants came from here...
Working for Support. On a six-day, 6,780-mile junket through seven western states, Harriman moved fast and campaigned hard. He ranged across Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada in a chartered DC-3. Before he turned homeward, he had made 14 speeches, held ten press conferences, worked a backbreaking 17-hour day that sapped staff members and newsmen. On the 64-year-old New Yorker, the crushing schedule seemed to work like a tonic...
Whenever the Pudding has what its producers consider a small hit, it will enthusiastically hit the road on all sorts of grand tours. In 1913, "Panamania" was good enough to merit such a junket and the Pudding sent it off on an ambitious tour covering practically every state west of the Rockies. A newspaper review told of the show's termination in Chicago...
...Prepaid Junkets. Shipowner Niarchos seldom visits his 48 ships or his worldwide string of companies, keeps his office under his hat. He is a familiar figure in England, where he stables his string of race horses. In Switzerland, where he spends several weeks a year, he is known as an expert skier. On two continents he is known as a knowledgeable art collector; he recently paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pietà. On the Riviera, Niarchos keeps a fleet of sports cars, to shuttle between his two Cap d'Antibes palaces, and two yachts: the black...