10 JUNE 1978, page 11

The Holiday Inn Crowd

Richard West Mbabane, Swaziland It has been lightly said that the three principal foreign powers in Africa are the Cubans, the French and Holiday Inns. Certainly this hotel......

Italy's Opera Bouffe

Peter Nichols Rome I remember some years ago the occasional appearances of a well-known, now late, British music critic with no knowledge of conversational Italian who used to......