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• Something of value

  The Speaker's State Bed having turned up in private hands, and those hands having turned down a Government offer for it of f:5000, our reporters have been seeking out a few other missing bits of British junk that may still fetch a bob or two...

• Page and Monarch Forth they went

  British managers have a lot to learn from American managerial methods. Their single-status system has a great deal to recommend it, and basically means that the conditions ofemployment are the same whatever your position.
  It also means eating in the same canteen.

  par Alan Coren
• Up Like Thunder

  Dragon Platoon, Chinese People's Army, Cao Bang Province, Vietnam.
  February 18, 1979

  par Alexander Frater
• Kids acted Iike animais, claims US Iampooner

  This man runs America's hottest humour magazine and founded Diners Club. Now read on as MATTY SIMMONS talksto DAVID TAYLOR

  par Matty Simmons
• Pippedat the Post

  A CITY situated dramatically among hills which have inspired immortal, world-famous literature and sweep down to a river whose romantic valley is one among a dozen such. A city where 18,000 singing children greeted their famous queen as she passed through streets lined with palm trees and triumphal arches to open their grand civic temple. A city where the fragrance of 40,000 roses fills the swooning air in one corner alone of one of its elegant parks landscaped by a supreme eighteenth-century master

  par Paul Jennings
• Squeeze !

  I could quite easily live without oranges, but not without lemons. Their sharp-ness seems tome the equivalent of wit in cooking. They enliven. We even call the outer edge of their skin zest.

  par Fay Maschler