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... r GABOR denes The results and the events of the third Inter national Daily Express Offshore Powerboat Race conclusively established the fact that this contest has become the world's great classic for motorboats, and supersedes the Miami-Nassau Race which has up to now been regarded in that role. Its effect on the development of hull design and suitable power units is already very much in ...

... The new season at the Royal Opera House began with a new production of Wagner's Gotterdammerung, the final section of The Ring. It is being shown this autumn by itself. The pro duction is by Hans Hotter against a mag nificent setting by Gunther Schneider- Siemssen, based throughout on a circular ramp, evidently the ring itself. It is clear from the reception accorded the new ver sion by the ...

... : DENIS WHEELER Dr Wheeler is President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, an office which. is customarily held for two years. Born in Bristol in 1910, he graduated from the Uni versity of Bristol and then, as a Salters' Fellow, studied at Princeton University in the US. He joined ICI on his return to this country and, in 1946, took up an appointment with The Wellcome ...

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... COURTENAY EDWARDS The Frankfurt Motor Show, which closes this weekend, produced an interesting crop of new German models. By far the most important, technically, was the Wankel-engined NSU, about which I hope to write at greater length next week. Nearly as much interest was shown in the fantastically opulent Mercedes-Benz 600, which revives the German firm's tradition of having in its range a ...

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... In the centre of stage are Prince Florimund (Desmond Doyle) and Princess Aurora (Susan Alexander) as the performance of , danced by the Royal Ballet, reaches its happy ending. In front of the couple are some of the fairies who have helped bring about this conclusion. The ballet set to Tchaikovsky's music is among the most popular in classical repertoire. It was written for the Imperial Ballet ...

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... TWO PRIME MINISTERS COMBINE PLEASURE AND BUSINESS IN OSLO Mr. Macmillan examines his spectacles as he sits with Hr. Gerhardsen, the Norwegian Prime Minister, aboard a steamer in Oslo. They were setting out on a trip down Oslo Fjord. Hr. Lange, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, accompanied them and it was understood the three combined the pleasures of sight seeing with the business of informal ...

... BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD Cricket is the pastime of peasants. I have no doubt that whoever made that remark was a foreigner. You may remember that some wit (was it H. A. Vachell?) once said that England was separated from the rest of the world by an immense gulf called cricket. Any way the foreigner was speaking contemptuously, in the flannelled fools tradition, but he was much nearer the ...

... Sir Roy Dobson Following tlie Government-inspired rationalisation of the British aircraft industry, Sir Roy Dobson, Managing Director and vice-Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, has emerged as one of the most influential figures in this vast industry. I ne Groups aviation division consists of Avro, Armstrong Whitworth, Blackburn, Folland, Gloster, Hawker Aircraft, and de Havilland. Sir Roy ...