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All over Europe, consumers are developing a taste-and paying premium prices-for American food products. Despite stiff trade barriers erected by the Common Market, shipments of American fresh fruit to Europe were worth $32 million in 1970, up almost 40% from 1968. The demand is at its peak right...
Pressure from the Dollar. For all the caution, there is, as French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann commented, "a strong incentive built into the plan to move forward." Indeed so. The Europeans were propelled into unexpectedly early accord by the profligacy of the U.S. For most of two decades. European nations...
In all, 17 of Black Africa's 34 countries (see map) marched to independence in 1960, and 13 have followed since. As the continent was swept by a "wind of change," in Harold Macmillan's famous phrase, one former colony after another set out on its own. buoyed...
White Catastrophe. Arriving at the height of Europe's holiday travel period, the cold and storms were caused by a vast high-pressure area with temperature-inversion layers that stretched from Spain to the Ukraine. On much of the Continent, mountainous regions basked in relatively warm air and sunshine...
Do geological events that occurred 30 or 40 million years ago have any contemporary relevance? Wilson is convinced that they do. By carefully studying the rise, he says, scientists may be able to locate more of the rich mineral deposits that were lifted close to the surface. Further analysis of...