10 JANUARY 1969, page 16

New Columbus

ROBERT CONQUEST Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom Andrei D. Sakharov (Andrd Deutsch 25s) Academician Sakharov, the Soviet nuclear physicist, earlier this year......

The Steam Whistle

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER It is one of the pleasures of age to realise that at the Battle of the Nile one was there all the while. Reading Pat Barr's admirable study of the Meiji......