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...exercise may not have generated much good will," concluded TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, "but at least it has focused attention on Japan's problems with the rest of Asia. If it gets the Japanese public to thinking of Southeast Asia in terms of more than just exports and resources, the whole bumpy ride may have been worth...
After decades of relative stability, world prices of these materials are taking off on what could be a long climb. Between 1968 and 1973, the average U.S. price of nickel went from 940 per Ib. to $1.53, tin from $1.48 to $2.20 and copper from 420 to 590. In addition, the U.S., in part because of its wealth and power, is unpopular in some Third World nations. With demand for minerals strong, several countries conceivably could reduce exports to the U.S. and find eager buyers to take its place...
EVERYTHING THAT John Gardner has written before does not prepare you for Nickel Mountain. He calls it a pastoral novel, but that only makes you more wary. And the further you read into the book the more anxious you get. You keep telling yourself there has got to be a catch somewhere. Don't let your guard down--it could come any page now--a sudden reversal. The plot isn't supposed to be so straightforward. Surely one of the characters will go mad--this world is just too sane. When is the author going to show his face...
...honorary chairwoman, without pay. The word "temporary" had been substituted for "honorary," and the President had not appointed his wife to anything. Nor would she consider under any circumstances ever being paid for charitable work. Said Action Director Michael Balzano Jr.: "Mrs. Nixon wouldn't accept a nickel for this." A White House aide meanwhile described the First Lady as "disturbed" by the entire episode...
...banality and a horror of sentiment. However skillfully they are written, there is often not enough at stake in contemporary novels to keep the mind and heart alive. Two of the most encouraging exceptions this year were John Leonard's Black Conceit and John Gardner's Nickel Mountain. The two books are also in a sense contrapuntal. In one, reality destroys illusion. In the other, illusion is accepted as a means of protecting love...