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...York Junket...
Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Devoir's strange opinions were supplied by a young (26) French Canadian writer named Jacques Hebert who set out on a round-the-world junket last June with an arrangement to send Le Devoir some travelogue pieces from faraway places. He reached Japan soon after the Korean fighting began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...
...McCarthy's article, a 37-page piece entitled "Wanted: A Dollar's Worth of Housing for Every Dollar Spent," was contained in a pamphlet published by Lustron to promote its prefabricated houses. McCarthy had turned the results of his committee work and a 30,000-mile committee junket through the U.S. into a neat profit. The article was a straightaway description of federal housing legislation -the kind of article Lustron probably could have got free or at least dirt cheap from any Government housing...
...lawns of Lake Success one day last week 3,000 U.N. employees assembled to welcome their boss, Secretary General Trygve Lie, just back from his self-assigned five-week junket to Moscow, Paris and London. Mr. Lie was touched by the reception. Said he modestly: "I have just done what I thought was right...