30 MAY 1970, page 12

Literary Life

Old lag's tale MARC ULLMANN Paris—There was once a French ex-convict who had escaped from prison in Guiana. He lived in Caracas, in Venezuela. One day, while in a bookshop, he......

Table Talk

That Wall Street Bubble DENIS BROGAN The present economic and political situation in the United States and its dependencies re- calls (absii omen) the immediate antecedents of......