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Eric Estorick, Brooklyn-born manager of London's fashionable Grosvenor Gallery, has a quixotic goal: he wants to bring modern Russian art to the West. In four years he has journeyed 15 times to Russia, searching for paintings and cajoling authorities for permission to export the works. Last week he put his acquisitions on show, the first major commercial exhibit of Soviet art in the West since 1922, when the young Russian revolutionary regime sent to Berlin and Amsterdam works by Kandinsky, Pevzner and Gabo-who all later went into exile...
...Exporters of U.S. cotton, who this year will ship $600 million worth of the nation's sixth largest export, have a tough row to hoe. More and more European buyers are complaining about the condition of U.S. cotton. "America sends us the worst-made-up bales," says Harry Tonge, chairman of Britain's Raw Cotton Committee. Grumbles one Genoa importer: "The condition of U.S. cotton cries out for revenge." Some countries are beginning to take revenge. Communist Bulgaria judged a shipment to be so shoddy that it not only delayed unloading the $2,750,000 cargo last month...
...much gold remains in tombs and other archaeological sites, and every new find becomes an artistic Klondike. Laws in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama that attempt to curb the export of the "national patrimony" are by and large circumvented; if the gold is no longer exported in galleons, it nonetheless gets out. Last week a superb new collection of pre-Columbian art, "The World of Ancient Gold," opened at the Travel and Transportation Pavilion at the New York World's Fair (see opposite page...
...food and service has even attracted Gentile guests, who are offered yarmulkes (skullcaps) to wear in the dining rooms. Finding money to build the Deborah was no problem; the millionaire Knoll brothers own a number of corporations in Venezuela, including a construction firm, a dental supply business, an export-import company and an office-furniture factory...
What is the most important commodity in the world's $132 billion annual volume of international trade? Oil? Steel? Cotton? No, it is an export that is sold at home: tourism. This year it will grow by almost 10%. Some 60 million international tourists will spend $9 billion, which in turn will generate $29 billion in wages, purchases and taxes in the countries they visit. Already such countries as Italy, Spain, Austria and Ireland earn more from tourism than any other export...