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Portrait of the Week WILSON announced that he would e l f
The Spectatora 'nst Mr. Gaitskell for the leadership of T abour Party. When Parliament reassemb led he a r observed that as Mr. Gaitskell walked Into rs`-hamber, Mr. Wilson happened to walk...
ON THE FRINGE
The SpectatorIn terms of the quality and effectiveness of medical care (for the physically and mentally ill) who arc the beneficiaries of the National Health Service? We do not know: no...
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In Trust
The SpectatorINCE we went to press last week further evi- 0 dence for the defence has been put forward in the case against the executioners of the News Chronicle and the Star. The evidence...
Sitting on the Lid , :ocial From Our Correspondent nâ¢or a
The Spectatorfull transcription of a letter by ;i6futiri; anyth .FEw days ago all. Spanish newspape rs . .jore ar riln Ibarruri, known as `La Pasionaria,' th e v i 1 0 oth er , head. of the...
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Heir Presumptuous
The SpectatorBy BERNARD LEVIN So Mr. Gaitskell's runnin g dog has decided, at last, to bite! On the steps of the conference hall at Scarborough, on the morning after the defence debate (at...
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The Last Rounds
The SpectatorFrom IAN P AR1 LY because of an understandable nostalgia k Adlai Stevenson, partly because a lot of ;Publicans have a sneaking feeling that their fat es no good and try to...
Religion and Politics
The SpectatorIf foreign policy and standing up to Khrush- chev and the Communists is the chief issue of the campaign above the surface, the most important underground issue is that of...
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than he can refuse to serve people who want their
The Spectatorown cough cures or vitamin pillsâso long as the materials used in them are not under legislative ban. Auxiliaries âChiropodists A few .months ago the Queen's anent was...
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What many chiropodists believe to be the crucial factor that
The Spectatorhas hitherto limited recruit- ment for public appointments is the relatively small remuneration that can be expected to follow the long and expensive obligatory training. They...
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course. It is not essential that a candidate for membership
The Spectatorshould have a medical degree, but he or she must have qualified first in some acceptable disciplineâusually some branch of science, though the Association has accepted men...
Mind and Body
The Spectatorn - Linistry of Pensions and National In- ''ce for the purpose of sickness benefit. fre tu ertna nY and America are the twin sources fir st i whi ch modern nature cure methods...
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The Spectatorâ¢â¢Â£â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢ H e who whispers down a well About the goods he has to sell Never makes as many dollars As he who goes to Town and hollers. If you want to learn to...
At the vast Singer factory at Clydebank in Scotland, chain
The Spectatorgrate stokers feed a moving belt of heat under the 4 giant boilers in the impressive powerhouse. The fuel is coalâchosen by the directors for reasons of convenience, economy...
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The Spectator.' I i fill 1' ' 1 1 1' 0 1 . 1 ⢠, $ .1 The growth of the railways opened up 11 )Y rigd° rk - - Production soaredâbut, then so di e °11 ll 1 0 , i , Someone remarked,...
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The clinics of individual healers are on a much smaller
The Spectatorscale; but taken over a year the number of patients treated at them must far outstrip those attended to at mass demonstrations and at services. By far the best-known clinic is...
A special committee of the Council of the British Medical
The SpectatorAssociation was appointed, in 1954, to examine the whole subject of divine healing: its verdict was We can find no evidence that there is any type of illness cured by...
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Small wonder that many people who might be ex Pected
The Spectatorto regard the Socialists as champions of th e underdog are sadly disillusioned and have turned to the Liberal Party, so despised by Mr. Dale, as 8 more truly representative of...
A different sort of planning is required for what one
The Spectatormight call living-room psychodrama. By this I mean those sober plays which seek out hitherto uncharted emotional muddles and then INVESTMENT INTEREST INCREASED TO As from July...
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envy; Joseph Rouleau, sonorous of voice and twinkling of eye,
The Spectatormakes splendid strides both as singer and as actor in the role of the genial dens ex machina Count Rodolfo; and the chorus, under Serafin's loving hand, sings with real sen-...
On the other hand, the resident company comes very well
The Spectatorout of the evening. Jeannette Sinclair, as the vixenish innkeeper who fails to get her man, gives a clever study of meanness and Cinema The Film's London Film Festival....
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The two faces of Japan
The SpectatorThe impact of Western influence on an Oriental way of life during the fifteen years since Iliroshima is highlighted in this programme. This impact is vividly illustrated in the...
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gang, an intensely ambitious film that shows chaos with Lerner's
The Spectatorhabitual polish and delibera- tion, and (with its new faces) really manages to show something of a young man's spiritual pro- gress across a decade. The Criminal ('X'...
But daily life goes on, as in the world outside,
The Spectatorand in a strange way the criminals remain people first and criminals second, in spite of the criminal Vintage By PETER THERE is really a remark- able amount of quality in TV...
From Czechoslovakia comes Jiri Weiss's Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (first
The Spectatorprize at San Sebastian), a war story about a schoolboy's efforts to save a Jewish girl, a moving film because of its spirit and its acting, but stylistically rather obvious and...
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Yet Lord Curzon's life would be accounted by most to
The Spectatorbe a failureâcertainly by the author of the new biography,* and probably by Lord Curzon himself. Mr. Leonard Mosley, to sus- tain this view of failure, provides us with a...
politics. It may be that his own political informa- tion
The Spectatoris far greater than he thinks worth impart- ing, but occasionally he makes us wonder : is he remarkable collection of papers? Sentences like his categorisation of the mourners...
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universe' comprises a chain of dinner parties ) linked by
The Spectatorvarious pseudo-intrigues and popu- lated exclusively, apart from a Zen Buddhist and a pop singer in white leather inserted with ) British and Franco-British aristocrats on the...
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KINGSLEY AMIS
The SpectatorOut of Hiding Trumpets from the Steep. By Diana Cooper. (Hart-Davis, 25s.) THE Third, final volume of Lady Diana's memoirs covers the last war. Her husband's resignation over...
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Gerald Durrell's A Zoo in my Luggage (Hart- Davis, 16s.)
The Spectatortells of an expedition (his third) to the Cameroons, where he proposed to collect animals for his private zoo. I am not one for reading about animals (dirty, greedy and dumb),...
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By CUSTOS
The Spectator'G us' and gold shares have been holding the investment stage. Those who still hold gold shares should hang on. The chances of a rise in the price of gold have undoubtedly im-...
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But with all kinds of amenity, one is too often
The Spectatorin the dark. What we need is a Ladies' Directory dealing not with ladies but with Ladies'. There should be warnings about the boiling hot water at the Café Royal and the...
in print about the vile state of ladies' lavatories at
The Spectatorthe big London railway stations; next day the Mirror followed it up with the immortal head- line 'The Times spends a penny.' No processions marched to commemorate the day, not a...
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with people of one's kind. It is a shame that
The Spectatorwe are often so poorly served in so vital a field; and no woman alive would ever have the nerve to ask for her money back. customer. All the Sunday â¢trading grocers to whom I...
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