24 MARCH 1973, page 26

The Good Life

Sour sweet Pamela Vandyke Price " They asked for beef and he gave them a crisp," is one comment provoked by the Budget. I suppose that the improvidence and greed implied by......

Topping Topic

Sir: Your ' Notebook ' (March 17), makes out a good case for the return of capital punishment — or, rather, for its re-legalisation, since we should always hope for its......

Sir: In Last Week's Notebook I Am Credited With Attempting

(wholly unsuccessfully) to dampen the writer's misguided admiration for President Nixon's public announcement of intention to restore capital punishment for certain federal......

Student Unrest

Sir: A finer example than your cover article 'Fewer means Better' (March 17), of anachronistic interpretation of a situation leading to gross misunderstanding and crass......