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...Eastern Europeans are beginning to understand they must improve the quality of their goods if they hope to sell enough abroad to pay for more of their imports. Says Karoly Ravasz, a Hungarian official: "Instead of ordinary lathes, we must produce precision machinery. Instead of textiles that sell in flea markets, we want to sell fashionable clothes." Only in that way can the Communists avoid going much deeper into hock to the West...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...
Saturday, November 15--Bateman puts on an offensive display for Brown, including a triple flea-flicker culminating in a touchdown. Waving at the fans, Bateman trots to the locker room and a discouraged Harvard team follows, behind at the half...
...with cargo headaches. In Iran, ships wait up to three months to dock at Persian Gulf ports, trucks are backed up at border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...
...Kupka and his mountainous wife Eugenie would peer through the shutters at them, too proud to show themselves. The collectors never stopped at the Kupkas'. In the past, they had been so poor that Eugenie Kupka now and then had to buy old tablecloths and underwear in the flea market, launder them and sell them to raise a few francs...