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[SIR,-I wonder how long it took Mr. R. W. Wood...]
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THE DESPISED
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[SIR,-Mr. Longhurst's letter abusing his own country-...]
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THE SUPREME DETERRENT
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COMPANY NOTES
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ELEVEN MINUS
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MOANING AT THE BAR
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THE FIRST ROCK 'N' ROLL
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[I MET the other day an American friend of mine...]
The SpectatorI miJ'r the other day an American friend of mine who was complaining of the lack of knowledge even educated people in this country display in matters concerning American...
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Collector's Progress. By Stanley W. Fisher. The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. By H. J. Plenderleith. Pictures in Peril. By H. H. Pars. Translated by Katherine Talbot.
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[I AM TOLD that the American Embassy in Amman,...]
The SpectatorI AM 101D that the American Embassy in Amman, having received many petitions from all over Jordan protesting against the Eisenhower plan, sent copies of it to some of the...
[SINCE THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION has...]
The SpectatorSINCE TlE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION has obviously decided to give King Saud the whole treatment, I wonder whether the protocol men of the Department of State have gone back to...
[READING WHAT their Lordships said about the...]
The SpectatorRIADING WHAT their Lordships sail about the Shops Bill when they debated it last November, Leslie Adrian came across one of H-lansard's rare misprints: a specimen, I think,...
[IT WAS POINTED out in these columns last week...]
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TURNING WORMS
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CELERY TRENCHES
The SpectatorCELERY fRI.Nu IzIlS It is necessary to prcpare celery trenches early in thc year. They should be mnade eighteen inchcs deep, the bottom forked, and left to break Lp tinder thc...
[JANUARY is over and odd things make one think one...]
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Out of the East and the Way Back
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Bank Rate and Sterling
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The Rent Bill
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Resolution
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Lord Byron's Marriage. By G. Wilson Knight.
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The Happy Ones. By Maurice Edelman. Growing Up. By Barbara Lucas. The Abode of Love. By Aubrey Menen. The Spider's House. By Paul Bowles. The Guns of Navarone. By Alistair MacLean.
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ISRAEL: THE TESTING POINT
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Glubb's Legion. By Godfrey Lias.
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