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When the Canadian government two weeks ago switched from silver coins to nickel to benefit one of Canada's biggest basic industries, the nation's seven nickel companies were flustered as well as flattered. Free-world consumption of nickel-825 million pounds last year-is approaching its highest point in history and straining the industry's capacity to supply. The demand is so strong that nickel producers are rushing to develop new sources from the chilly plains of Canada to subtropic mountains in New Caledonia...
...continue its gains. Many businessmen look for consumers to save less and spend more; Detroit, for example, expects at least 9,000,000 auto sales. There are, of course, some clouds over that rather rosy view. Stockpiling to minimize the impact of potential midyear strikes in steel, aluminum and nickel could produce violent inventory swings...
Quick Zap. A.M.C.'s hopes rest on a piggyback system of two 25-lb. nickel-cadmium batteries and two 75-lb. lithium batteries being developed by Gulton Industries of Metuchen, NJ. The lithium batteries are for sustained speeds, can store 15 times as much energy per pound as lead-acid batteries now used in conventional cars. For quick acceleration-a safety factor lacking in present electric-car designs-the nickel-cadmium batteries would cut in briefly, could zap the car from a standstill to 50 m.p.h. in 20 seconds. And for longer battery life between charges, the Amitron would...
Dean Gitter as Jay Gould gives Prince Erie's most extraordinary performance. A quiet nervous deadpan conveys the tension and ruthlessness of Gould, who could "smell a nickel under twenty pounds of lard." Through disciplined underplaying, Gitter is tragic in the steamboat scene, and satanic at the end of the second act where, after the success of the gold crash, he drinks a glass of champagne in spine-chilling slow motion...
...Peterson, president, Bank of America; Frederik Jacques Philips, president, N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; David Rockefeller, president, Chase Manhattan Bank; Dr. Samuel Schewizer, chairman, Swiss Bank Corp.; Dr. Gerd Tacke, director, Siemens A.G.; Abderrahman Tazi, executive director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Henry S. Wingate, chairman, International Nickel Co. of Canada...