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...overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song...
...Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross's business...
...trade in pilgrims, property and Orthodox propaganda. For 24 years, dust thickened on the icons in the Russian churches in Palestine. Then in 1941, the Politburo ordered the churches reopened and dusted off the old czarist scheme. All Orthodox prelates in the Middle East were invited on a junket to Moscow to view the installation of Patriarch Alexei, hero of Leningrad...
Back in Guatemala last week, Gutiérrez burbled about his junket, and painted a picture of the Soviet Union as a place where "everyone eats well. I gained 15 pounds in 16 days . . . but lost three on my way home in underfed France." Last week, Gutiérrez disclosed the price of his caviar and cutlets. His Revolutionary Workers Party, he announced, must disband and join Fortuny's Communist Party...
Newsmen noted with professional cynicism that not one junket was scheduled for Korea-where accommodations are meager and entertainment small. But it was a measure of the U.S.'s changed role that nearly all the travelers were going on legitimate business. In 1951, the world had become a U.S. Congressman's proper province...