23 MAY 1969, page 10

Wasted Cities

HOUSING NEIL WATES Subsidised housing has been the political panacea of the postwar decades. There is now increasing awareness amongst, both political parties --that......

Play Time

TELEVISION STUART HOOD There was a time when the Independent Tele- vision schedules used to include a quota of ninety-minute plays. Ninety minutes was natur- ally a conventional......

Bargain Hunt

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN When fixed prices began to die their. lingering death, there were many who thought that the country would be turned into one vast orien- tal......