17 JANUARY 1970, page 12

For This Relief

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Roy Jenkins, in our hours of squeeze, So desperately keen to please, Explaining, though with anxious grief, The time's not come for much relief, And monkeying......

Table Talk

California, fare thee well DENIS BROGAN At the end of the long trek westward, the American frontier is producing or provok- ing some odd and even alarming phenomena 4 It is,......

Consuming Interest

Dollar wise LESLIE ADRIAN At dinner time on that glad night when (un- known to me, three thousand miles away) restrictions on foreign travel expenditure were being lifted, I......