Word: sojournings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took off for Sao Paulo, Alexander, 51, the House chief deputy majority whip, was the only Congressman among the nine passengers aboard. None...
...been unable to conceal her preference for palling about with old chums like Socialite Betsy Bloomingdale in more citified surroundings. Last week Nancy got a chance to sample the glitzy social whirl of Beverly Hills when the Reagans came down off the mountain for a three-day sojourn in lotus land. They hobnobbed at dinner parties with old Hollywood cronies like Jimmy Stewart, and ate chicken with three of their children (Maureen was in Sacramento) in a $3,000a-night presidential suite at the Century Plaza Hotel. The First Couple then returned to the 688-acre ranch for another lazy...
Asked if his Iowa sojourn had anything to do with 1988, Kemp replied, "Absolutely." Bush is more coy. "I don't seriously have to address that problem until after the 1986 elections," he said last week. Yet the nomination clock is ticking earlier than ever. Michigan, for example, may begin the arduous process of choosing the people who will select its delegates to the 1988 Republican Convention as soon as August...
...German forensic experts had returned from Sao Paulo. But the week did bring to light a stream of photographs and documents that seemed to leave little doubt that the 25-year hunt for Mengele was over. The weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte fleshed out details of the Nazi fugitive's sojourn of roughly 18 years in Brazil with an annotated collection of photographs, supplied by Mengele's 41-year-old son Rolf. In response, the rival weekly Stern ran six pages of photographs chronicling the same period of lonely exile. Gerald Posner, a New York lawyer who has pursued the Mengele...
More significant, however, was the dismally low attendance at event after event, as though some pervasive national ennui had set in. Said one Vatican official, after observing the paltry crowd at an Amersfoort youth rally: "I have never seen anything like that." John Paul's four-day Dutch sojourn indicated that there are indeed distinct limits to the power of his personal charisma and that his attempt to reconcile Dutch Catholics with his conservative agenda for the church has had minimal success...