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Egypt is rich in raw materials and relies heavily on them for export; one result is that prime places at the fair were given to models of mines and oil rigs, and to Egypt's fine cottons. But the surprise was the amount of consumer goods at the fair-55% of the total. They included many brand-new products, and ranged from TV sets and Pharmaceuticals to autos assembled in Egypt and turquoise jewelry from mines that were worked before Christ but only rediscovered last year. The Egyptians have developed a strong plastics industry to make everything from spoons...
With such goods, the United Arab Republic has built an export business that this year will total $500 million-but that is not enough. Egypt is still forced to import so many necessities that it runs a perennial trade deficit. To help wipe it out, the Egyptians are selling hard to nations as distant as Norway and the Philippines, shipping tires to Czechoslovakia and China, and working successfully to overcome earlier complaints of inferior quality. The Egyptians look with great expectations to the emerging African market, which they hope will be a major outlet for Egyptian goods...
...restocked their own country, Finnish architects and designers have stamped it with a clean, distinctively Finnish elegance that makes Leningrad, less than an hour's flight away, look drab. To the delight of sauna-worshiping Finns, the sauna vogue has become international, providing Finland with a new export...
...seem to be filled with dimpled, unattached blondes. In fact, only 40% of Sweden's 3,700,000 women are blondes. The country also lacks such other vital resources as coal, oil and fertile farmland. Like the other Scandinavian countries, Sweden must export to survive. In desolate Arctic wilderness lies Sweden's treasure, the greatest reserve of high-grade iron ore in all Europe. In this wasteland of rock and ice lies Kiruna, which claims to be the world's biggest city (11,000 sq. mi.) and exists to exploit the lode. Under floodlights in winter...
That major American export, the tourist, is once again beginning to fan out across what Novelist Nancy Mitford's Uncle Matthew used to call "bloody abroad." The old familiar faces -collegian and schoolteacher, all-expenser and retiree-are about to turn up in the old familiar places, at the old familiar prices...