20 DECEMBER 1968, page 5

Mr Nixon's Team

AMERICA MURRAY KEMPTON New York—Mr Nixon's experience with government has been largely ceremonial, and his presentation of his cabinet was proof of how useful the humblest......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectrum', 19 December 1868 -Mr. Gladstone is going to utilize the young Peers. Lords Camperdown and Morley, Lords-in-Wait- ing, are to represent departments not......

Chou's Tripod

CHINA DICK WILSON The Communist Chinese request for an am- bassadorial meeting with the United States in Warsaw on 20 February, together with a call from Peking for the......

Ends And Means

STUDENTS IAN MacGREGOR Christmas is the time for parlour games, and there is one I commend to everyone with a taste for irony. It involves nothing more than reversing the old......