CABLED BRIEFS

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33878, 25 June 1975, Page 15

CABLED BRIEFS

[Sterilisation in UJS.

■| Sterilisation is becoming I (increasing popular among II American married couples who want either no more children or none at all. Agence France-Presse ret ports. Either husband or wife .jin 7 million married couples • in the United States has been ■ sterilised to prevent conception, according to a recent > I study by the National Survey lof Family Growth.—New ' York, June 24. More gleg .. • Miss Olive Behan, aged 45, a British remedial-reading I teacher, yesterday showed herself to be more gleg than the other 11 finalists, and queried to her second title as Britain’s best scrabble player. Miss Behan, who says that she usually plays the board game four times a week with friends, scored 1363 points in the three-game final to beat Miss Vera Lang, with 1307, in the national scrabble championships. Among the winner’s words: “gleg”— (quick and alert; “querl”—-to (swirl; “gid”—a brain disease lof sheep; “od”—a theoretical force or natural power; and “razee”—a ship with its upper deck cut away. Miss Behan also won the title in 1972.—London, June 24. ‘Spectator’ sold The British magazine, the (“Spectator,” has been bought Iby Mr Henry Keswick from Mr Harry Creighton, its owner since 1967. The new editor will be Mr Alexander Chancellor, who was formerlv with Reuters and Independent Television News.—London, June 24. Amazon in flood An estimated 80,000 people have been forced to leave their homes because of the flooding of the Lower Amazon. Thousands of tonnes of sugar, manioc meal, salt, and coffee are being flown from Rio de Janeiro to the flooded areas, along with vaccines against malaria, tvphoid fever, and smallpox.—Rio de Janeiro, June 24. Riyadh project An American architectural firm has been named the prime developers of a SUS 1000 m university campus in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia. Mr George Hellmuth, chairman of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, which heads a consortium of architectural and engineering firms, says that the campus will be completed in about seven years.—St Louis (Missouri), June 24. IF ater rationed The Rome city authorities have applied an emergency water-saving plan in an attempt to conserve the citv’s dwindling water supplies depleted bv low rainfall since the beginning of the year, Agence France-Presse reports. The city has been divided into seven sectors, each of which, in turn, will for a week receive strictly limited supplies between the hours of 9 a.m. and midnight. —Rome, June 24. Links forged Britain and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam have decided to establish diolomatic relations immediately, and to exchange ambassadors in due course, the Foreign Office has announced. — London, June 24.