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Books

Destroyer or Preserver By THOMAS PAKENHAM O NE day last July about fifty of the world's most successful town planners, architects and economists held a private Summit on board a......

Defences And Deterrents

The Arms Debate. By Robert A. Levine. (Har- vard and O.U.P., 52s.) BOOKS on nuclear strategy have a great reputa- tion for arousing people's anger. It is not just that morality......

New Year's Day

The urchin wind hangs about the streets, alive in corners at the year's end. Blown and blowing, my mind sweeps its dust out on the chill errand. Now is the time for separation;......