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The Stomach Has Its Reasons

First grub, Then ethics, Then grub again. Then the ethics of grub, Then less grub and more ethics Or less ethics and more grub. The stomach has its reasons Which Reason Doesn't......

A Target For Both Sides

Roy Foster HORACE PLUNKETT, CO-OPERATION AND POLITICS: AN IRISH BIOGRAPHY by Trevor. West Colin Smythe and the Catholic University of America Press, f12.95 I sn't Horace......

The Making Of A Maverick

Tony Osman THE SMALL WORLD OF FRED HOYLE by Fred Hoyle Michael Joseph, £10.95 S cientists should be talented and origin- al and this fraction of an autobiography describes the......