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City And Suburban

Critical times, but what can the Chanceilor say to Key and Trev? CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he hotels of Peking are block-booked for next November. Everyone wanted to go to the......

Soft Landings

LORD King, British Airways' chairman, does not give his date of birth in Who's Who, but a lesser man might be thought to be nearing pensionable age. He has cer- tainly joined my......

Retrospect

SOMEWHERE among the white-coated chemists at Wellcome, there seems to lurk a classicist with a misguided sense of humour. Wellcome's prized discovery and the great spur to the......

Vulriefable Convention

BRIDGE players know the temptation. They persuade themselves that they can transform their results by adopting some marvellous flew convention — the Cong- don Forcing Approach,......