27 MARCH 1971, page 31

Sterling Work

Of major import to the City was the lack of emotion displayed by Geoffrey Rippon when faced with the desire of the French to dis- cuss the role of sterling in connection with......

All Change

Independent Television put on a spiritual uplift programme titled Viewpoint recently. The show, if that is the word, including an interview on Higher Things with the ever......

Broker For Sale

The news this week that stockbrokers may, at last, advertise their services to the public will no doubt be giving one or two (if not more) of them a sleepless night or so. How......

Seen To Be Done

What is a monopoly in Britain? An organisa- tion that takes more than 30 per cent of national sales. And what happens to a monopoly when it is investigated? It is put through......

Skinflint's City Diary

The take-over activities of the giant con- glomerates in the United States led one wit to term our present age that of `The Age of Acquireius'. But now how are the conglom-......

Money The Oil Quest

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT In an interview with Dr T. F. Gaskell, Scientific Adviser to British Petroleum I have lately been trying to make people see the seriousness of the oil crisis.......