24 OCTOBER 1970, page 14

Science

Death by merger PETER J. SMITH In at least one country in the world, learned scientific journals are offered for sale on railway station bookstalls. Needless to say, it does not......

The Press

Prices and wages BILL GRUNDY The Guardian went up this week by a penny to 9d. Denis Hamilton of the Times Organ- isation recently made a speech in which the question of a price......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 22 October 1870—There is an idea rapidly gaining ground among our own people, in Germany, and in America which ought to be discussed. Is it not possible,......