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...talking about forming a common market. That kind of thing was all right for a well-developed Europe, they said, but backward Latin nations were too accustomed to protecting national industries with high tariff walls. And since a major slice of every government's revenue came from import and export duties, they could hardly be expected to agree on mutual tariff cutbacks. But last week seven Latin nations * brought their common market to life by simultaneously cutting tariffs against one another on 2,500 items of trade...
...years, skiing was a sport for sun burned huskies in low-slung plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls...
Because of the emigration of many Cuban planners, he said, Castro has had to import experts who frequently do not understand Cuba's problems...
Lipstick & Minesweepers. Whatever the local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda...
...richest prize from the invasion and the finest natural harbor on the Indian subcontinent. Biggest economic boon of union with India for agriculturally impoverished Goa will be the availability of cheaper food. After India placed a trade embargo on Goa in 1954, the Goans were forced to import most of their food and vegetables from as far away as The Netherlands. The trade ban will soon be lifted...