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Quietly but firmly, the U.S. has taken the unusual step of declaring economic warfare against a company that is supported by a friendly government. The company is France's Le Nickel, whose sales of $53 million make it the world's third largest producer (after Canada's International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those...
Buying from Cuba. At issue is a U.S. order, invoked in August by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, that effectively bans U.S. imports of any products containing Le Nickel's metal. In the past month customs inspectors in New York City and elsewhere have impounded six shipments of French stainless steel containing nickel that had presumably been supplied by Le Nickel...
...daylight pictures ever taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations of Ikeya-Seki were probably the first ever made of a comet. He is certain that the infrared emissions came from the comet itself and were not reflected sunlight. Analysis of this data should...
Moyers rises at 6:15 a.m. in his five-bedroom brick home in McLean, Va., tries to squeeze in at least an hour with the children. Sometimes he frolics with them, and on special occasions performs his "magic" stunt of pulling a nickel out of an ear or a nose. More often he reads to them; he has just finished the legend of Paul Bunyan for six-year-old Cope (named after the Marshall publisher...
...sharp! It should be an F natural!" At five, he became the youngest student ever accepted at Hungary's Royal Academy of Music. At 21, Ormandy came to the U.S. for a concert tour, but was stranded when the promoters went bankrupt. Literally down to his last nickel, he joined the fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater orchestra. Five days later, when the conductor suddenly took ill 15 minutes before showtime, Ormandy was thrust onto the podium for the first time because, naturally, he was the only musician who knew Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by heart...