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Barely a week later, Italian finance police picked up a California-born Italian citizen named Walter Rava in a small cafe in Milan. He was arrested for forging an Italian government import certificate for 5,000 tons of Chilean copper. Rava was part of a gang, headed by the Rumanian commercial attache in Bern, Switzerland, which specialized in getting control of strategic materials sent to Europe, supposedly destined for Western European businessmen. Once the goods arrived, they were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain...
Charging that Andorra was reaping commercial benefit from a purely "illusory independence," France set about jamming the station, and sent in technicians to build a new one. The Andorrans promptly slapped a fat import tax on all radio parts. The French countered by charging 1,000 francs for an exit visa for any Frenchman who wished to visit Andorra. Andorrans protested that the French were ruining their tourist trade...
...Southampton one day last week sailed a cargo of six knocked-down British tractors, bound for India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra...
Next day at a press conference, the young refugee from neutrality told his story. Born in Poland, he had learned English at the University of Lodz, had never before been out of Poland. When had he first hoped to escape? "The day they came to the import-export government agency in Lodz where I worked and offered me the inspection team...
...everything in the $30 million-a-year French perfume industry smelled sweet to Wertheimer. Italian perfume makers were challenging French supremacy in the U.S. market, and, as always, the Paris market was flooded with cheap, tourist-bait concoctions mixed in some 1,200 Parisian "cellars." Tariff barriers and import restrictions have virtually shut off the big Latin American markets. Things were even worse in the quiet town of Grasse, near the Mediterranean, whose 18 distilling plants supply the French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine...