22 NOVEMBER 1963, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

1 xi strange case of Pro- fessor Barghoorn is one of those brief flashes of lightning on the skyline that illuminate the true state of the Cold War. It comes as an invaluable......

Travelling Venus

General de Gaulle is becoming less intran- sigent these days. At the time of his earlier nuclear arguments with the Americans, he was most reluctant to allow the Mona Lisa to......

The Senate's Vendor

From MURRAY KEMPTON WASHINGTON It is not by chance that, whereas most major French scandals are about money, the equiva- lent English . ones are about sex.—Malcolm Muggeridge in......

Parliament On The Air There Is New Talk Of Televising

the proceed- ings of Parliament. Before the photogenics, non- photogenics, radicals and conservatives do battle again, two points in the general argument should be noted. The......

Annus Mirabilis When Mr. George Brown Cried Gleefully In The

Commons on Monday night, 'We're all nationalisers now 1,' in response to Sir Keith Joseph's public land acquisition plans, it showed how confused and Gilbertian British politics......

A Question Of Meaning Another Aspect Of The Barghoorn Case

(one quote from the unfortunate Professor I liked: '1 did not even visit a Soviet home- or speak for more than a few minutes with a member of the opposite sex. That's how......

The New Tycoon A New Type Of Tycoon Is Appearing.

The latest example is forty-two-year-old Mr. Joe Hyman, head of the Viyella group that just made a £10 million bid for the Van Heusen shirt empire. 1 am told that Mr. Hyman is......