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Salute In Kind

Honour'd Shade. Selected and edited by Norman MacCaig. (Chambers, I 2s. 6d,) Tuts book of seventy-seven previously uncol- lected poems by twenty-seven living Scottish poets was......

Spectator Crossword No. 1072

ACROSS 29 1 Gentle admonishment to a fav- ourite becomes mechanical (61 4 Outdo with discordant music hot stuff! (8) 9 'But Rose crossed the road in her latest new (Dobson) (6)......

The State Of The Union

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT `THE booming Sixties' were for- mally ushered in by President Eisenhower in a confident State of the Union message to Con- gress. This is to be the most......

Solution Of Crossword 1070 .

ACROSS. - - -I Happy New Year. 9 Stillases. 10 Punic. 11 Lessor. 12 Smacking. 13 Remedy. 15 Skewbald. I8 Hand-grip. Is Intent. 21 Charlock. 23 Tandem. 26 Omens. 27 Novitiate.......