8 JULY 1972, page 30

Skinflint's City Diary

With inflation running unchecked it is about time the Department of National Savings suspended the activities of that army 'of workers (many paid with nothing more than an MBE......

Wrong Rights

Companies in the asset stripping game are finding it better to have rights issues than to trouble with bidding for companies and actually selling the assets at present share......

I.c.l.

The indications are that the impetuous Mr Christopher Chataway, Minister for Industrial Development, is throwing good money after bad in giving ICL a further £14.2 million as a......

Slater's Gambit

One of the pleasures in reading of Jim Slater's gambit in offering £50,000 which has resulted in Bobby Fischer being persuaded to meet Boris Spassky in Iceland for the world......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

Sponsoring horse races is a highly chancey business: the stakes are high and there's no cast iron recipe for success. Take last Satur day, when Newbury in summertime appeared......