... Author speaks AUTHOR Malcolm Cant will be Eging a lecture on the villages of “dinburgh to the Federation of Business and Professional Women on Monday at the Stakis Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh. The lecture starts at gm and admission costs £l. Mr Cant ...

... Plain speaking EVEN Hugh Mac Diarmid said that Lallans, which he played a large part in 'reaufing. was “synthetic Seots.” This .is nothing compared with the verdict handed down by Professor Glanville Price‘on the “revival” of the old Celtic speech of Cornwall ...

... Speaking up ClTY'’s Quulvguuu Club are inviting men to visit them one evening to see for themselves how a srukers club is run and how it can help them. Contact George Wilson (334 6139) or call at the Royal Scot Club, Abercromby Place, on a Monday evening ...

... SPEAKING IN PUBLIC EDINBURGH Public Speaking Students’ Association Speakers’ Club are looking for more members. Secretary Hugh McCreadie said: “If you are tongue-tied in company, petrified if asked to speak in front of anyone, or simply want to gain more ...

... Speaking prizes Grammar School, s 2o Tt Sir, —As one of the teachers who uecow a team to the United 'N Association public-lpqakinfil, comrmion on Saturday, rch 20, I' should ‘:i.de”b'ymolm ‘error of fact 1 one correspondents . today. Al{g@ all the young ...

... AFRICA SPEAKS South Mrlc::::od journalists are neighbouring blo:l states . . . a United Nations committes again focuses on racial discrimination in that troubled s Abtoe tre from Africa are those of a rumbling volcano. In The Scotsman Magazine tomorrow ...

... Speaking o Carmen EDINBURGH Gramaphone Society welcome new members to a meeting in the lounge of the Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, at 7.30 Ym on Tuesday January 5 when Denis O'Riordan will talk on “Carmen”. Details from Heather Hoy (334 5207). ...

... FOREIGN SPEAK EDINBURGH University Institute of Applied Language Studies are offering a programme with a sales and marketing bias. They are designed for small groups and are currently offered in Italian, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Portugese, Japanese ...

... Speaking for himself ©® Prue Jeffreys talks to John Sessions, the multi-voiced Scot who has turned ~ impersonation into an art form TONIGHT Napoleon — The American Story, opens at the Tramway in Glasgow with a cast of 50. Sylvester Stallone, Alec Guiness ...

... ABROADLY SPEAKING ALTHOUGH the pound has been taking a pounding in recent weeks, there has been little movement against the European currencies. Holidays in the US, however, will cost more once you get there. Portugal Spain Sweden MR .. Yugoslavia 154 ...

... Speaking up CITY'S Saltire Society, 13 Atholl Crescent, host a meeting of the International Training in Communication organisation (formerly International Toastmistress Clubs) at 7.30 pm on Monday. Further detaiis from Helen Ferguson (346 0056). ...

... Speaking out .. . A STRONG condemnation of the florifying of war was made bz the oderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at a Royal Navx‘l‘}emembraoce Day service. ‘lyhe Rt Professor James Whyte told naval servicemen and their families ...