26 MAY 1973, page 20

Society Today

Unseen discrimination Michael Meacher Whether the people of Hartlepools have the worst teeth in the country is not known, but they certainly have the lowest ratio Of dentists to......

Science

Technological priorities Bernard Dixon Next Sunday, hordes of boffins and politicians from throughout the world will gather in The Hague for the First International Congress on......

Gardening

Not in Parkinson Denis Wood When my friend Maud bought an old cottage in the country she began at first to develop the-garden in a fairly conventional way, but eccentricity soon......

Country Life

Swift spring Peter Quince • One by. one themilestones of spring slip past. The usual hesitant shift from winter to summer seems to speed up in these very mild years, so that one......