Word: traded
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...refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment and live within its means; it now spends a third of its national budget on defense...
...forested country, it exports paper, pulp and wood products to 90 lands. Exploiting what is believed to be Europe's largest copper fields, Finland since the end of the war has developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common Market without it, but the Soviets are not likely to encourage Finland to seek closer ties to the mart...
...astonishing that The Netherlands received $1 billion in Marshall Plan aid-more per capita than any other nation-but it is surprising that anyone remembers. The man with the long memory is none other than Prince Bernhard, 55, at whose suggestion 60 Dutch companies, organizations, trade unions and individuals have contributed $200,000 for what Bernhard calls "Holland's modest thank-you"-an endowed chair in The Netherlands civilization at Harvard, where Secretary of State George C. Marshall first announced the Plan 20 years ago. Called "the Erasmus Lectorship," the chair will be filled each year by a visiting...
...other Cambridge, meanwhile, doe-eyed, ash-blonde Ann Mallalieu, 21, daughter of a British Board of Trade minister, showed up in a black, bell-bottomed corduroy trouser suit to accept her election victory as president of the Cambridge Union, the university's 151-year-old debating society. "I think," said she, delivering the knockout, "that they voted for me as a person and not as a woman...
...discovered that Queen Victoria had overstocked on fine sherry (he preferred champagne) and ordered 5,000 bottles from the royal cellar put up for auction. Reviving a pleasant pre-World War II custom, London's leading auction houses have recently added vintage wine to their stock in trade. It has turned out to be a bonanza. Before the year is out, Sotheby's and Christie's expect to move more than $1,000,000 in vintage wine, and prices for rare 100-and 200-year-old wines are breaking all known records...