25 JUNE 1977, page 18

Free Trade In Publishing

Sir: Granted the advantages of a market economy, it is surely too sweeping to say that British publishers 'haven't a shadow of a case' in the dispute about the 'traditional......

Council Estate Serfs

Sir: Geoffrey Smith's examination of the Tory Party in Scotland (28 May) was right in explaining that the vast proportion of council houses renders a huge section of the......

Harmful

Sir: Having read Mr Waugh's article (28 May), I hope that you may be able to appreciate the kind of harm steady sniping, apparently at bureaucracy, but in fact at individuals,......

Sir: It Is Some Time Now Since I Have Managed

to read one of Mr Waugh's articles to the end. His article in your issue of 21 May, just received here, however, struck me as reaching a low level even for him. There is a place......

Art And Science

Sir:. Horace Freeland Judson (4 June) says that science is this century's art. But it is what science has discovered that is, or may be, artistic. Science is but the methodical......

Sir: Horace Freeland Judson In His Article Has Science Won

the argument? makes all kinds of facile assumptions. If science 'is this century's art', what has it been in other centuries? There were plenty of 'beautiful eXperiments' being......

Fetchit, Boy

Sir: In his review of the film Car Wash ( 4 June) Clancy Sigal opines that it is 'a little late I would have thought for Stepin Fetchit to rise from the dead'. In case anyone......