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Bator has suggested that Britain's policy of supervising the export of valuable art and allowing export of all but the rarest works is the most workable one employed today...
...transport. And as long as there remains a possibility of some agreement with the Soviet Union on strategic-arms limitation, there remains some doubt that Congress will vote money to build the B-lA. Among other contracts in the offing are: a new "freedom fighter" for export to allied nations, the Safeguard anti-missile program, a new submarine-launched missile, a land-based missile to replace the Minuteman, and the space shuttle...
...flow of crude oil, Israel is also building a big refinery at Ashkelon to supplement one operating in Haifa; together these facilities will give Israel one of the largest refining capacities in the Middle East. Even after taking care of its own growing needs, Israel expects, by 1973, to export more than 14 million bbl. of refined products yearly, bringing in considerable amounts of foreign currency. Underlying all this activity is Israel's worried awareness that the Arabs' political influence in the West is based largely on oil. "With a major oil facility," says one Israeli pipeline executive...
...enduring system of small landholdings -caused by the absence of a large Indian labor force-which from the earliest colonial times produced a strong, propertied middle class. (Large landholdings did not come into being until the second half of the 19th century, when coffee became the major export crop.) Then, too, there is Costa Rica's historical preoccupation with education, which resulted in a free primary school system as early as 1853. This continuing commitment is reflected in a national budget that currently devotes more than 33% of its $132 million total to schooling, v. only...
Just before the premiere, Mayor John Lindsay presented Balanchine with the city's Handel Medallion in recognition of his cultural contributions to New York. "If we could bottle the New York City Ballet," said Lindsay, "it would be the city's finest export." Then Who Cares? returned the compliment by offering a splendid sampling: Manhattan, oldfashioned, wry and sweet...