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NICHOLAS DAVENPORT The Stock Exchange has been taking such fright at the budget that it is almost bound to stage a recovery when that-unpleasant event is past and the...

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Sir: The 'Journalist of the Year' award has gone to Mr Victor Zorza of the Guardian. The BBC report of the citation says that he predicted the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia...

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years at the utmost—if (1) every patient, as condition for performance of an abortion, is thoroughly taught, and equipped for, the contraceptive method most convenient and...

Sir: Though it's hard to see how what Mr Seymour-Smith (28 March) calls my 'timid, donnish, obtuse .. . academic (albeit American) appreciation' of Wyndham Lewis could even be...

Sir: The recent appearance of a history of Girton College (reviewed in your issue of 21 March) is a welcome reminder of the very valu- able contribution made, and being made to...

Sir: Adrian Fitzgerald (Letters, 21 March) is concerned that an articulate lobby is pushing hard for even more permissive legislation re- garding abortion. This is quite true,...

Sir: Mr Grundy (21 March) obviously enjoyed . shying at the Aunt Sallies of the street; may one of them be permitted a slight squawk at the feeble disingenuousness of his aim?...

private patients' in NHS hospitals during the first four -months of the Abortion Act, quoted by Mrs Madeleine Simms (Letters, 21 March), is really not relevant to estimating the...

Sir: You are warmly to be congratulated upon either the speed of your printing arrangements or the foresight of your correspondents. For, in your letters column of 28 March, Mr...

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