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From Paris' ancient gates last week, a steady stream of cars, scooters and motorcycles, with wife or girl mounted behind, poured out of Paris and headed for seashore, mountain, or vacations in Spain (cheaper than the Riviera), Austria, Germany, or even Scandinavia. Before the middle of the month, 2,000,000 of Paris' 5,000,000 inhabitants will have left, and the rest wish they...
...route from Germany to San Francisco or Los Angeles, a transatlantic route to Chicago, and one to Boston, New York and Philadelphia, then down to the Caribbean and South America. In return, U.S. air lines got routes to six German cities plus the privilege of picking up passengers to Scandinavia, the Near East, Africa and other destinations. But at the last minute the present was called off. No one had bothered to check with U.S. airlines, and the airline men were up in arms over what they considered a giveaway. By putting on the pressure, the airlines got the State...
...having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...Swiss have been hard hit by competition from the German watchmaking industry. Unhampered by rigid price fixing, the Germans have snatched up a fat slice of the Swiss watchmakers' markets in Scandinavia, the Far East and the U.S., with prices as much as 20% lower. On top of that, Swiss watchmakers, whose exports to the U.S. were already dropping, were further hurt by the 50% boost in U.S. tariffs last summer (TIME, Aug. 9). Their exports to the U.S. market dropped from $68 million in 1953 to $51 million in 1954, and are still running down. As a result...
...spare for export before 1957. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. "An American gift to the world" is what the Toronto Daily Star called the vaccine, and as far as Dr. Jonas E. Salk and his colleagues were concerned, it was literally a gift. They are not getting a penny from the vaccine's manufacture (the six pharmaceutical firms making...