18 JUNE 1965

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Doom Dos Kissing Cousins Goodbye?

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Thomson and the Times • Mr Wilson's Guerillas • Leslie Adrian on Plastics Spectator

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Friday June 18 1965

Doom Days

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rrLIE Government has never looked more I like an administration moving towards disintegration than it did as Parliament re- assembled this week. It floundered on in the economic...

Portrait of the Week— THE TRADE FIGURES for May gave

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everyone the willies—imports up £24 million, exports down otm.. trade deficit wider by £19m.—though Mr. Jay said it was only 'a statistical accident.' Wall Street slid and...

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VIEWS OF THE WEEK

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Kissing Cousins Goodbye? M R. FRANK CoUsINS has had much to put up with. Instead of a position of command- ing influence, overseeing the industrial scene in fact if not in...

Too Clever by Half?

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W LIEN the American bombings in Vietnam first started, the Prime Minister probably made a simple calculation : that they would soon be over and that the best thing to do was to...

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Atlantic College A. D. C. PETERSON • M. L. Rosenthal on William Carlos Williams One year's subscription to the 'Spectator': 15s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and...

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Ere the Spider . . .

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IJILARY SPURLING writes: 'Homage to T. S. Eliot' on Sunday evening had the same smooth way. 'neither diffident nor ostentatious,' with heterogeneous material as one of Eliot's...

Thomson and 'The Times'

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CHRISTOPHER BOOKER writes: Amid squid-like clouds of the blackest secrecy. plans have been laid over the past few weeks for the biggest earthquake in newspaper ownership since...

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Political Commentary

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Mr. Wilson's Guerillas By ALAN WATKINS H OW much longer can Mr. Harold Wilson keep up his apparent support of American policy in Vietnam? Has he, indeed, already begun to...

Great Names From the Thirties

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MURRAY KEMPTON writes from New York: The election of a mayor of New York is the only political event of consequence facing Ameri- cans next fall. The Republicans have the...

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