8 FEBRUARY 1963

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Fontana di Trevi

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Fontana di Trevi I don't wonder that, Romans have been a little disturbed at the idea that the Palazzo Poli, on which the Fontana di Trevi backs, is up for sale in terms which...

Mensa-people

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Mcnsa-people Mensa is a society composed of people who have taken the trouble to sit (and pass) an arduous IQ test. The top 2 per cent., they call themselves. Recently I looked...

[THE Tate Gallery's report for the year ended...]

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Spectator's Notebook T HE Tate Gallery's report for the year ended March, 1962, makes glum reading. Not that there's anything unexpected in that; and it can only be our...

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Who's Wonderful?

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Who's Wonderful? The National Council for Civil Liberties has been analysing the findings of the Willinck Report on the police. To say that the Council is suspicious of the...

Vox Populi

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Vox Populi The other morning I walked along the south edge of Kenwood. Falling away on my left was the taiga of Hampstead Heath, deserted except for the odd skier pushing...

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DAGGERS AT DAGENHAM

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DAGGERS AT DAGENHAM TFIE Ford management's apparent decision to stand firm against the strike planned by the Transport and General Workers' Union for February 18 in protest at...

Portrait of the Week

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i-Portrait of the Week- THE CANADIAN PRIME M[NISTER, Mr. Diefenbaker, has at last fallen from grace. Adopting the old-fashioned rule that if attacks on your enemies don't win...

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Miss Curry's Young Master

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BOOKS Miss Curry's Young Master BY RONALD BRYDEN W HAT on earth is one to make of Compton )v Mackenzie's career? It begins, as scarcely anyone now remembers, with that...

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[SIR,-So Mr. Maclnnes is in a condition of hopeful...]

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SIR,-SO Mir. Maclnnes is in a condition of hopeful perplexity! If he can believe in a God both omnipotent and powerless, a force larger and more perpetual than any human...

[SIR,-In his article 'A Kind of Religion' (February 1),...]

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SIR,-In his article 'A Kind of Religion' (February 1), Colin Maclnnes says: 'to read the Gospels is to understand how little Jesus threatened, and how much he promised.' Mr....

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[SIR,-May I thank Mr. Colin Maclnnes for the...]

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SIR,-May I thank Mr. Colin Macinnes for the remarkably courteous tone of his article. So often, when writers criticise orthodox Christianity, they contrive to leave the...

[SIR,-I am sure Mr. Colin Maclnnes is right in...]

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A KIND OF RELIGION SIR,-I am sure Mr Colin Macinnes is right in supposing that the classification of contemporary minds into what he calls 'secular' and 'clerical' does not...

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Name This Flower

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Name This Flower Ed- ANGELA MILNE W<. V r are all thinking of s>pring as the better W inme ahead, the time of warmth and plea3ure and beauty, the time when surely the mains...

Company Notes

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Company Notes BRI LOTHRBELR IT is a pity that Klinger MTanufacturingl haiS not given a breakdown of its profits lfor the 1 ear to September 29. 1 962, as it appears from the...

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WATT'S WATT

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WATT'S WATT SIR,- iFhe rioen himisclf is hoarse That croaks thu rLaIIl entnirice of Duncian Under my battlements. With his brick wrapped in two-p~nnorth of' Eureka Wire and his...

[SIR,-I think that Brian Copland has produced one...]

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Sltt,- think that Brian Copland has prodUced one ev-71 Dest analyses of the criticism which faces aY salesnan in the country that I have come trs- S I use the word 'salesman'...

[SIR,-The defenders of current advertising practice...]

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SiR,--T1he dcflenders of current advertising practice should realise that one of their critics' major complaints is the contempt which advertisers themselves show for their...

[SIR,-I feel that it has been a good thing that...]

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iRl- I lcIl that it hus becn a g-Iood thing that Ldvartlising shoUld I1ive conIc undlIer oflicial scrutiny th ougliO tilhe i\l0[OnV anjld Pilkington Committees and tle Rosal...

THE DANCING GIRLS

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THE DANCING GIRLS Swi-I think sonic mention might be made of the grandmothers and great-aunts of the Dancing Girls of whom Mr. Leapman writes. During my term as Vice-Consul at...

STARS APART

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SIARS APART SiRt---I, no less than Mr. David Cairrns. demand perfection or as near perfection as possible in opera; hut I also recognise the practical difficulties that face...

[SIR,-Those who are disturbed by the dominance of...]

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SIR,-Thosc who ar, distUrbed by the dominance of ...,Protit motive, who are uneasy at the present trend in mass comnmunications,- and who see advertising as the consummation of...

[SIR,-The enemies of advertising, as I see it, take...]

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Sfi,- T-hc enemies of advertising. as I see it, take their stand on two principles: the moral -one that it fosters materialism, thrives on discontent, and is opposed to the...

[SIR,-The conception of a moronic public which...]

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IFNEMIES OF AD}VERTISING SIR-The conception of a mo ofiic public which ""It be protected from the evil wiles of profitmaking manufacturers is not consistent with the...

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Egyptian Complexities

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Egyptian Complexities Yw V _ 1From DESMOND STEWART CAIRO THE greatest compliment a European can pay modern Egypt is one that most Egyptians would dislike: it is to say that...

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Towards Expansion

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Towards Expansion IT is good to hear that the shipyards on the North-East coast have succeeded in winning eompetitive tenders for the building of three tankers for the Royal...

Government and Industry

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Government and Industry THE institutions Of our industrial society need modernising. Everyone admits it, but little enouwh is done about it. In Whitehall, it is a striking...

The Making of Malaysia

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The Making of Malaysia TImu complicated political situation in SouthT East Asia seems likely to become even more tangled as a result of the variols intrigues being carried on...

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Misgiving in Germany

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Misgiving in Germany From SARAH GAINLAM nONN T nE attitudes of de Gaulle and Adenauer to the immediate future of the Common Markct are based on the simple and rather...

UN and the Press

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UN and the Press 1t r o ni J OV C E' 1 G I N TO N UNIJED \1,1W}N

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The Gift. By Emyr Humphreys. Pigeon Feathers. By John Updike. The Mission. By Ferreira de Castro.

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Bombardment of Events The Gift. By Emyr Humphreys. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 21s.) Pigeon Feathers. By John Updike. (Andre Deutsch, 18s.) The Mission. By Ferreira de...

The Modern Polish Mind. Edited by Maria Kuncewicz.

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Frosty Glitter The Modern Polish Mind. Edited by Maria- Kuncewicz. (Secker and Warburg, 35s.) GEORGE ORWELL speaks somewhere of the order in which the arts lose their...

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Australian Painting 1788-1960. By Bernard Smith.

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A Continent on Canvas Australian Painting 1788-1960. By Bernard Smith. (O.U.P., 84s.) A WELL-TINMED publication: the Tate Gallery exhibition of Australian painting covering...

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Investment Notes

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Investment Notes By CUSTOS Ai] ER the technical recovery which the eqUity sharc markets enjoyed- - -with the help of 'bear' covering----on the ending of the great uncertainty...

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Coronet Among the Weeds. By Charlotte Bingham.

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Miss Puss Coronet Among the Weeds. Bv Charlotte Bing- hamn. (Heinemann, 16s.) Loos are very important during the season. I should think they're practically the most...

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Ralph Parker. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley.

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House of the Dying One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Ralph Parker. (Gollancz, 18s.) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. By...

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Looking Back on Brussels

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Looking Back on Brussels B-I By DAVID WATT* HISTORIANS, I am sure, will regard the Brussels negotiations as a mere fragment in the prolonged story of how Britain rejoined...