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Tailpiece

There has been at least one useful lesson from the Beatles' world tour. We now know from the hysterical reception that they received almost everywhere that the youth of America,......

The Glittering Coffin

Seen outside a large garage near Baker Street: a revolving pedestal bearing the inerediblY shattered wreckage of a Wolseley 1500 con- vertible. For- this driver it must have......

Knocking Down Hatfield

In a year when political writing is likely to be more partisan than scholarly, I find the pub- lication of Geoffrey Block's A Source Book of Conservatism by the Conservative......

Spectator's Notebook

LAST week, the Spectator, in a leading article, joined the ranks of the 'don't' knows' about what to do with South Africa. Since then, another problem child of apartheid has......

Pre-discussion—the Condition Of Democracy

From BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL PARIS TT is, and rightly, an essential feature of a free 'country that any person or group should at any time be able to voice complaints and pro-......

The Cosmos

B Y CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS 'These bookAh chaps seen, to worry about Ihe cosmos so: — P. G. Wodehouse. The world is too much' with them; bookish chaps, Worrying about the cosmos much......

Test Trial

It is sad that the match 'Champion County v. The Rest' has disappeared from the cricket calendar. The reasons were obvious enough: the season, except for festival cricket, was......

Arnold Beichman

It was on a visit to the United States in December, 1958, that I first became convinced that Arnold Beithman ran the country. Wherever I went, he was there. Whenever I appeared......

Saved: • Just As The Villain (me) Was Binding The

hapless maiden of the BBC to the rails, up gallops the hero in the unlikely person of Mr. George Elvin. The news of the strike on Independent Television was reported with......