20 JULY 1956, page 23

That New Town Remains Partly To Console Us, But There

are outer flanges of it, such as George's Square, which are outside the New Town proper; but which are under threat of destruction from (of all quarters) the University. Mr.......

A Cocteau Collection

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HAVING committed themselves to the proposition that all men are created equal, the Americans spend huge mounds of dollars each year in trying to correct the self-evident fact......