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OFF THE LAND
The SpectatorI N the articles on the Republic of Ireland in this issue there is one surprising omission: agriculture. Ireland is basically a farming coun- try, endowed by nature with a...
—Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorAFTER COOING IN PARIS like a sucking Picasso dove, and after talking to Mr. Nash in terms as sweet as New Zealand honey, Mr. Khrushchev went to Baku and talked tough again about...
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Doctors and Public
The SpectatorHE publication of books or articles in the lay press, the British Medical AssociatiOn has now decided, 'on medical or semi-medical topics that are of general public interest re-...
P.A.Y.V.
The SpectatorA CORDING to press 'leaks,' the secret report calling for a five-channel TV system for Britain which , is shortly to be presented to the Government through the Postmaster-...
Spanish Fantasy
The SpectatorTN a speech in Madrid last week, the British 'Ambassador . to Spain welcomed improved political relations between Britain. and Spain. According to the Madrid correspondent of...
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The Silent Apartheid*
The SpectatorORTUGAL has been disguising her oppression of eleven million Africans under the cloak of the so-called policy of 'assimilation:' After 500 years of her occupation (`presence' is...
45 million Frenchmen
The SpectatorBy RICHARD BAILEY "EARLIER this month the Economic Commis- .1_ sionn for Europe (ECE), the United Nations body housed in the Palais des Nations at Geneva, reported that trade...
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In the Throes
The SpectatorBy BERNARD LEVIN The question is of some importance, at any rate to the Liberal Party. With the Labour Party tottering from collapse to disintegration (it is now just possible...
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London Whether or not the motorist has any common law
The Spectatorright to park on a road seems to me irrelevant. He has two moral rights which comprise the under-. standing on which he bought his car : the right to move and the right to stop...
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John Arden is the most restlessly experimental of all our
The Spectatornew young playwrights, and The Happy Haven sees him surfacing in Audenland a good many miles away from the Germanic claustro- phobia of Serjeant Musgrave's Dance br the British...
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Television
The SpectatorTHE subconscious typist is very often the best part of one's critical equip- ment. The other day, for instance. I found myself about to refer to an ITV thriller serial called...
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',cites and 'cousin' William's disreputable finan- "n1 tr ansactions (largely with
The Spectatorborrowed capital) p ast India stock. Edmund's hands were clean leiss Sutherland, in an appendix, disposes of C s tory that he borrowed £6,000 from his ron Lord Verney, and...
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There's a similar detachment about Rayner Heppenstall's The Greater Infortutze,
The Spectatora revised version of a novel published semi-privately during the war. Its hero, Leckie, is also a dis- placed person in his society: a melancholy, slightly schizophrenic...
THIS book is the fi rst thorough i n vestigall°4 0 the period of
The SpectatorIrish history between the 0. ' 1 , o f divorce case (November, 1890) and the de ath Parnell (October, 1891). It covers the st° roi .. ei interregnum between Parnell's years of...
His novel, in these days, is also rather brave. To
The Spectatorattack the Easter marchers is becoming like assailing motherhood or Christmas. To ask them to put by their banners denouncing death and sin to discuss contingencies, methods and...
that strikes you as you read Pierre f3ert1 pleasantly written
The Spectatorand highly organised De: It's as much the incidental studies: of 99 1 Smith's pickpocket dictatorship at the en trance .. ,, I White Pass; of all the boosters who mil l would-be...
Palacesancicourtsoflaw, villagesuburits and odd corners, streets and parks, Twickenham and
The SpectatorLords, Hampstead Heath (where the author lives), Kenwood, Highgate and over to the fringe of Upping Foiest, CITIES OF ENCHANTMENT SERIES 25s. net Newnes "sq■. , :z‘ board....
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The trend in the first year of operating has been
The Spectatorcarried on through 1959. A steady and :ontinuing growth in the number of commer- ials transmitted has shown that there is no Ioubt in the minds of advertisers about the...
The challenge of providing programmes seven days a week for
The Spectatora bilingual region has been accepted gladly, and our Audience Measurement Records show a remarkable degree of consist- ency over the year. This is taken to indicate that - aur...
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The SpectatorStatement of the Chairman, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cilcennin P.C. to the Third Annual General Meeting held in Studio No. 1 of the Company's television centre at Pontcanna, Cardiff...
An increase of more than 100,000 homes capable of receiving
The Spectatorour programme has also been recorded during the year tinder review. Premises and Equipment When our Bristol project is completed, your company, with our Cardiff Studios, will...
Your Board of Directors also have in mind the possibility
The Spectatorof diversifying the company's interests and of widening the base of an enter- prise such as we control. A number of pro- jects are in course of investigation and share- holders...
We erivisage that our responsibilities will grow, and it is
The Spectatortherefore probable that our running costs will increase commensurately with our wider operation, as was indicated last September in the public advertisement. MOre- over, as in...
Because of other commitments. Mr. Mark Chapman-Walker had to give
The Spectatorup his Joint- Managing Directorship during the year, but fortunately for your company was able to con- tinue as a member of your Board. Mr. Alfred Francis therefore became sole...
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By K ATHARINE WHI.TEHORN s, _ Lind stunts in the
The SpectatorFestival Gardens. And N ational. Union of Women Teachers reacted scalded cats to the Crowther Report's sug- ar% that girls should receive training for the M ' s of Men, Marriage...
The female teachers going off the deep end about the
The Spectator'degrading' emphasis on marriage are probably mistaken: many of the mothers of their pupils may have been married, after all. And they sound curiously dated; it was in the...
