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...paintings are two canvases from the European exhibit-Tobey's placid, cotton-soft Fountains of Europe and Callahan's turbulent, semi-semi-objective Fiery Night (see color page). The sculpture is no less recherche. Not untypical are Lipton's exotic Night Bloom, with its nickel-silver-on-steel petals closing with tropical luxuriance, and Hare's abstract bronze. Bush of Elephants, with its distorted suggestion of tusks and elephants' ears...
Ever since nickel became industrially important in the late 19th century, Canada's giant International Nickel...
...sales: $445 million) has enjoyed a near monopoly on production. As late as 1951 Inco's mining facilities in Ontario's rocky Sudbury Basin supplied 85% of the free world's nickel and 95% of the nickel used by the U.S. During World War II the scarcity of nickel was so acute that the U.S. began stockpiling-almost entirely from Inco. But the U.S. did not take to dependence on Inco, began to develop other sources. Last week the General Services Administration told Inco that it is "not interested" in the company's offer to supply...
...Competition. The U.S. decision was another in a series of developments that over the past few years has whittled away Inco's monopoly to 65% of the free-world market, threatens the industry's dominant producer with even more competition in the future. The burgeoning demand for nickel encouraged new companies to enter the field. Inco was turned down flat this spring by the Quebec government when it asked permission to develop a rich new nickel find in Quebec's Ungava district, but about three dozen other companies have won concessions in the area, including wealthy...
Above the visitors was a two-ton chandelier of solid bronze inlaid with nickel; around them were porcelain and plaster tiles of blue, green and gold in geometric designs. Verses from the Koran and the 99 formal Arabic titles of Allah gleamed in gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings. Outside, the sun sparkled on the crescent that tops the minaret 160 ft. above Washington's stately Massachusetts Avenue. The $1,250,000 mosque (built with the contributions of 15 Moslem nations) stands canted to the street in order to face Mecca.*The world's only air-conditioned...