The Daily Telegraph magazine - Clouds cover (21 April 1972)

Good condition for age - yellowing to page edges

THE LANDED PEASANTS OF CHINA - What is life really like for the average Chinese? The enormous rural community is now divided into "production brigades" or communes; land is owned collectively; profits are equally distributed. But how do the people live, and what do they think of their way of life? Christopher Mullin spent some time with the peasants of Sha Shih-yu, a tiny village built on a barren mountainside north of Peking
5 pages

CHINESE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Behind the tranquil face of rural China is a no-man's land where no criminal or civil legal code exists. China is a country of mob law and violent execution. The prison system can brainwash a man into spending his life "inside". By Richard Hughes
2 pages

MAKING SNOOKER OKAY - Snooker, they say, is on the up. One million people follow it weekly on television. Is it emerging at last from mess rooms and working clubs to wider popularity? From a contest match Philip Purser reports on the game
Two and a half pages

THE WEATHER'S GETTING WORSE - What makes our British weather so changeable and unpredictable? Can the increased use of computers help to make forecasting more precise? We examine the structure and patterns of our climate
4 pages

MODERN ARCHITECTURE: PART SIX - "Reinforcing local tradition with a foreign eye"
Set in a landscape formed by ancient vineyards, this country house in Spain, designed by Peter Graham Harnden with Lanfranco Bombelli, fits neatly into its terraced site. The stonework has been made to match the "dry walls" of the terraces; 12th century mortars are used as splash basins to catch rainwater running off the tiled roof. By Peter Blake
4 pages

THIS TURBULENT PRIEST - "I've had about as rich a contact with humanity as anyone can expect to have in this world." So says Father Huddleston, now Bishop of Stepney. Today the contact is with people of 97 London parishes; yesterday it was with citizens of Johannesburg, then with rural Africans in Tanganyika. Denis Hart met this constant crusader
3 pages