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...sheer, colossal variety, London remains the world's greatest art and antiques bazaar, where everything from Rembrandts to 1950s Dior dresses can be had for a price. But New York is coming on fast. When the 24th Annual Winter Antiques Show opened at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, crowds bundled against the winter chill lined up to see the dazzling array of wares laid out by 67 American dealers. Among the treasures were English Chippendale chairs, Queen Anne silver, Shaker cabinets and a handsome pair of Gilbert Stuart portraits. A few blocks away an enthusiastic crowd milled through the showrooms...
...Book Bazaar--"The Second Wave" Benefit, Old Cambridge Baptist Church from 10 to 6 "Trees of Christmas"--10 to 5 Craft Fair--Pound Building...
Although Administration officials recognized that little was accomplished during last week's bazaar bargaining, they achieved more than they had expected. Said a senior official: "We're encouraged but not ecstatic." Had anything definite been resolved in Dayan's private talks with Vance and Carter? Said another senior U.S. aide: "It will be another week at least before we see which way things are going." But even if they are headed in Geneva's direction, chances for full-scale talks between Arabs and Israelis are still very remote...
...prime intent of Arms Bazaar is to document the tangled path of the companies and entrepreneurs who have developed the arms trade. Sampson, author of books on ITT and the oil companies, has had considerable experience in writing exposes. The Sears and Roebuck-like brochures produced by the British foreign service, the $106 million Lockheed paid to a single Arab business agent over five years, and numerous other interesting details are recounted. Sampson concentrates on the activities of the Western nations partly because they are more involved and less policy-oriented than the Soviets, but also because the information...
...TIMES Arms Bazaar may seem to be a conspiracy book. Business and political figures from Herbert Kalmbach to Prince Bernhard of Holland are involved in one way or another. But Sampson is not paranoid, merely thorough. The arms trade, with its manufacturers so dependent on large-sale, precarious government contracts, is one of the most lucrative and integral to the western world...