16 AUGUST 1969, page 24

Money The Franc's Moment Of Truth

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT August is the silly season in the financial world as- in others and the funniest thing that has happened is the sudden devalua- tion of the French franc (by a......

Music

Plain clothes Don MICHAEL NYMAN The Proms this year seem more than ever to have been planned as a kind of metro- politan vacation course in practical, but fairly conventional,......