to Government could do far worse than ke a start by declaring openly, before the n-proliferation negotiations are any older, ► t we regard our own nuclear capacity as ing held...

Dr Eric A. Nordlinger, the answer is the Conservative working man. In his book The Working Class Tories (MacGibbon and Kee 55s), Dr Nordlinger concludes That voters included in...

The revelation that the American govern- ment's Central Intelligence Agency has been, for most of the magazine's lifetime, a major source of Encounter's financial support, is...

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From the 'Spectator,' II May 1867—Mr. Dis- raeli's. Bill against Bribery does not get on, perhaps is not intended to get on. As Mr. Mill said on Thursday, "the Minister who...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM JOHN P. MACKINTOSH, MP Mr Mackintosh is a member of the House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure. In the debate on procedure last month, Mr...

EUROPE MALCOLM RUTHERFORD Next week the Foreign Secretary goes off to Moscow again to continue talks that could in the long run prove just as important as those concerned with...

AMERICA MURRAY KEMPTON New York—Governor Rockefeller's view of the Republican prospect is from the thirty-sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, an appropriate vantage point for...

MEDICINE JOHN ROWAN WILSON He was a man (they usually are) and he came in late at night (they almost always do). I was a very keen but rather inexperienced young surgical...

SCIENCE ROGER WILLIAMS Mr Duncan Burii's broadside The Political Economy of Nuclear Energy will certainly have been compulsory reading for the mem- bers of the new select...

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THE PRESS DONALD McLACHLAN As I see Lord Thomson's Times quickly be- coming much more readable and stimulating, while his Sunday Times slowly becomes less readable and more...

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NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE This book is the record of an 'enduring friend- ship.' Frances Donaldson and her husband first met Evelyn Waugh and his wife when the latter was in his late...

LAURENCE LERNER The wind runs over the startled grass; I ran between two dykes; Sitting slumped in the hospital I dreamed of it for weeks. Carved in the chalk over Cerne Abbas...

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ADOLF PRAG The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton volume I, 1664-66, edited by D. T. Whiteside with the assistance of M. A. Hoskin (Cambridge University Press 10 guineas) When...

PATRICK COSGRAVE Constance Markievicz, the subject of Miss Marreco's sympathetic and painstaking bio- graphy, once remarked: 'My first realisation of tyranny came from some...

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MUSIC CHARLES REID At the Royal Philharmonic Society's concert Mr Geza Anda dug certain of the louder scale passages from his piano in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with...

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ART PAUL GRIN KE Whenever Patrick Procktor's work comes on public display critics dig their toes into the carpet and wriggle with mute embarrassment. He appeared like a...

PETER OPPENHEIMER Mr Oppenheimer is a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Sterling is a major obstacle, perhaps the major obstacle, to British membership of En. Thus was...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT So far Mr Wilson's 'great leap forward' has left the City pretty cold. Perhaps the financial clique are more conscious than most of the lengthy time it will...

CUSTOS At long last the gilt-edged market has suffered.a correction. The cut in Bank rate to 5+ per cent persuaded speculators that there was nothing more to go for. The 'bull'...

JOHN BULL The Common Market means unrestricted move- ment of capital as well as goods and agricultural produce. Along with New Zealand lamb, Commonwealth sugar and home grown...

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Sir : As a teenage reader who has recently de- veloped the concise philosophy towards sex—'Why all this fuss about sex?'-1 was elated and reassured by John Rowan Wilson's...

Sir: It may be true of national and international figures, as Donald McLachlan asserts (28 April), that to make sure of the best (obituary) treatment it is vital to survive to a...

Sir: In recent years there has been a growing interest in Western Europe as well as in America in questions relating to phenomenology and existentialism. These questions overlap...

Sir: By saying that 'intellectually most of Burke's political philosophy is utter rubbish,' Professor J. H. Plumb (5 May) displays a facile super- ficiality characteristic of...

Sir: May I congratulate Mr Playfair on his article (28 April)? But why does he not mention the ugliest, most irritating and most prevalent of modern cockneyisms, namely the...

Sir: If Eliot sang 'What did Robinson Crusoe do with Friday on Saturday Night?' he was in error, for the question raised in this admirable ballad fifty years ago was 'Where did...

healthy, logical, his article should become a standard work on the subject. R. L. Broad The Look Out, Branscombe, Seaton, Devon

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JOHN WELLS Arriving rather late for dinner on Sunday night at the house of sophisticated friends, I found them in a state of some excitement. They had read that afternoon in...