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• Tall Order

  Colonel Richard Seifert, the controversial architect of Centre Point, has drawn up plans for the world's tallest building- on Merseyside. The Liverpool Tower, as it is called, would stand one-third of a mile high.

  par Keith Waterhouse
• My Average Lady

  Not being among the millions who looked eagerly for the traditional retelling of the heart-warming old Christmas tales in such films as The Seing and Where Eagles Dare, I saw only two holiday programmes that could be described as jolly. One, of course, was Charley's Aune and the other, even more of course, was My Fair Lady; and being as enchanted as ever by the latter I wondered yet again why this and The Boy Friend remain the only two musicals, compact of joy, style and, above ail, life, that I would go
  anywhere to see, done by anyone- s a ilors, nuns, amateurs, convicts or (in the case of The Boy Friend) about 60 children at the school on an enormous American air base, and very good they were too.

  par Paul Jennings
• Bush Telegraph

  ALEXANDER FRATER's cousin Norman files his third report from Somewhere in the Third World

  par Alexander Frater
• Rotten for Some

  "A man acquitted of shoplifting," I learn from a usually reliable source, "was arrested on leaving the court and charged with stealing a juror's
  overcoat."

  par Basil Boothroyd
• Il the Phrase Fits par Kenneth Robinson
• Plant Talk

  A beautiful June day. The white puffs of cloud punctuating the blue back- drop, gently shuffied by the whims of a capricious summer breeze. A day for lounging around in back-yards. An afternoon to be punctuated only by the chink of ice-cubes settling comfortably in frosted glasses, the twang of tennis balls bouncing off tightly-strung gut, and the overpowering scent · of English garden flowers.

  par Richard Beioley