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...observed that a house can be "part of one's raiment, the outerrost garment. ..." It is a perfect description of I Tatti, an instrument for and product of the pursuit of what B.B. calls "IT". "IT", he explains, "comes to mean taking life ritually as something holy, of mystical import and in one's thought ideatedly--if not in realizable actuality as a sacred performance. From childhood I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. With the years it merged into the wish that it could be lived with the significance of a work...
Ever since tear-spouting Premier Mohammed Mossadegh brought his country close to economic ruin in 1951 by nationalizing its oil industry,* Iran has been trying to import as much foreign money and knowledge as possible. Thanks to the Western-minded Shah, Iranian law now offers solid safeguards to foreign investors. The question, after what happened in neighboring Iraq, is whether the politically discontent will wait for long-range economic benefits. Wall Street is making an impressive bet on Iran's peaceful future...
...case in point was Ireland, whose tidy markets Ottawa's Foreign Trade Service hopes to improve with a booklet for businessmen pointing out Ireland's liberal tariff and import policies for Canadian products-aluminum, wheat, lumber, newsprint, hides. The main problem is that Canada fails to reciprocate. Wrote the Toronto Telegram's Financial Editor Devon Smith: ''Ireland is another of those countries which Canada treats in as offhand a manner as Canadians claim the Americans treat ourselves...
...First International Conference of American States in Washington in 1889-90. The idea came up again in Mexico City (1901-02), Washington (1931), Montevideo (1933), Buenos Aires (1936), Lima (1938), Guatemala City (1939) and Bogota (1948). By 1948 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Export-Import Bank had been launched; the U.S. took the view that any added agency would be a duplication, held steadfast to this position at inter-American conferences in Washington (1950), Caracas (1954), Petropolis (1954) and Buenos Aires...
...same time slot. At a time when live shows are fading fast from every channel, the Paar show is seen over a record 115 stations and has collected as many as 38 sponsors, ranging from Minipoo shampoo to Corega denture fastener. One measure of the show's import is the loyalty of most of the guests; they are paid only "scale" ($320 per appearance), but most of them love the show for its fun - and for the publicity...