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Gentle Handling. Magneform is already doing many useful jobs: aluminum and copper are being joined to porcelain insulators for outdoor wiring; the metal bands around artillery shells are being fitted quickly without any fuss. The auto industry is using Magneform to produce ball-joint and seal assemblies for front suspensions. Magne-form's principal advantage over welding, pressing or stamping is its ability to shape metals without the rough handling that such operations ordinarily require. Automated assembly-line operation can be managed easily, and Magneform men are already looking toward the day when most subsidiary parts of an auto...
...that are not obscured by excessive ornamentation, with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond of rich materials, they cast sinuous sculpture in bronze, then fire-gilded it to an eternal luster...
...Hodgepodge. The confrontations among other materials are just as sharp and furious. Long-lasting and easy-to-install copper tubing had just won a victory over galvanized pipe for plumbing when along came cheaper plastic piping. Steel has joined battle with wood over the load-bearing structural parts of the home. Wood and aluminum are wrestling for the right to be in window frames; steel and aluminum are fighting over outside door frames and sills. Gypsum board for interior walls has proved cheaper and faster to install than wet plaster, but it now has challengers in plywood finished...
Strikes & Shortage. The latest copper find just added more excitement to the world copper situation, which is already cluttered and chaotic. Strikers last week slowed production in the rich copper mine area of the Congo, around which Moise Tshombe's shooting war revolved only last year. In Chile, where it often seems that copper labor would rather walk out than work, two crucial wage contracts run out this year; beyond that, Leftist Salvador Allende, who has made nationalization of U.S. copper mines his key plank, is making a strong bid for President in Chile's Sept. 4 election...
...other industry except copper, the prospect of rising prices and sharpening demand would cause only happy visions of fatter profits. When copper prices spiraled once before in the mid-1950s, however, many users turned to such substitutes as aluminum and plastics. "At that point," says Dr. Charles H. Moore, executive vice president of the International Copper Research Association, "copper became a defensive industry." Companies had to fight to protect the markets they had left...