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Aided by widespread publicity, including the movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Jane Howard's bestseller, Please Touch, the movement is spreading explosively. Two years ago, when California's Esalen Institute first sought to export its own brand of the new gospel east, 90 curious New Yorkers showed up for a five-day encounter group in Manhattan. A similar event last year drew 850; last April, 6,000. Since January 1969, when Donald Clark counted 37 "growth centers"-established sites for the development of human or group potentials-the census has risen past...
...from last year. Beaujolais, the first wine to travel, will not arrive in the U.S until next March, and this year's Champagne will not be in American shops before 1974. Still, spokesmen for French vintners grow euphoric when discussing prospects in the U.S., their largest single export market. Last year Americans spent $70 million for French alcoholic drinks, mostly wine. In this year's first half, U.S. imports of French wine climbed 30%. The demand for quality wines, whether foreign or domestic, is growing faster than supply...
...have increasing company in their new locations. All over the industrialized world, accelerating wage inflation is pushing manufacturers into new efforts to tap the vast pool of willing and cheap labor in poorer countries. They are farming out production of component parts, subassemblies and even finished products, sometimes for export to other areas but often for use back home. In the process they are not only cutting their own costs but speeding the industrialization of underdeveloped countries, some of which are coming to relish the role of workshops for distant, richer lands...
...built by Philips, the Dutch electrical giant, and Plessy, a leading British electronics firm. Taiwan's Finance Minister, K.T. Li, cites "the availability of inexpensive labor" to foreign manufacturers as a prime reason for locating in a free trade zone that the government has set up. Companies can export products from the zone without paying duty, but they are not allowed to make anything there for sale in Taiwan. Some 120 companies so far have built plants in the zone, including Philips and General Electric...
...World War II, roughly half of the diamond cutters and polishers in Antwerp and Amsterdam were Jewish. Those who managed to flee the Nazis took their skills with them. In the late 1930s, several hundred anguished but unbeaten refugees started the industry that today produces Israel's chief export: polished diamonds...