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This famine is proving a feast for the free world's biggest nickel producer, the 54-year-old International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., which provides 65% of the free world's nickel. Last week Inco announced net profits of $91.5 million for !955, up 40% over 1954. For the sixth successive year, production hit a new peak with nickel deliveries of 290 million Ibs., while the company also delivered 263 million Ibs. of copper (worth $100 million), 1.637,000 Ibs. of cobalt (worth $4 million), 445,000 oz. of platinum (worth $20 million), plus smaller amounts...
...after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's Museo de Arte de Cataluna, Spaniards discovered that the prize was well worth the haggling. Spread out before them was an eye-filling feast of masterpieces by Spaniards Zurburan, Murillo and Goya and such other masters as Rubens, Cranach, Tiepolo, Botticelli and Correggio...
Another big trouble is the feast-or-famine nature of aviation. While the current long-range procurement policy is a vast improvement over previous policy, airmen still remember what happened after World War II. North American, for example, went from a profit of $14 million in 1945 to a $12 million operating loss in 1947. Then it had to crank up to high speed again to produce F-86 Sabre jets for Korea...
...Seattle last week, 640 leading citizens sat down to feast on mandarin chicken, pineapple chicken, Cantonese beef, steamed rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
...Qumrân settlement, he said, was founded by a group of "religious extremists," the Essenes. They probably fled into the desert from Jerusalem's evil priest-king, Alexander Jannaeus, who ruled from 103 to 76 B.C. The unpopular Jannaeus was once pelted with fruit on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth). According to Professor Allegro, this was the man who descended on Qumrân and arrested its leader, the mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness," whom he turned over to his mercenaries to be crucified...