1 APRIL 1966, Page 3

AS THE oratory mounted, Nature seemed to be offering satirical

comment by loosing howl- ing gales across Britain. Two of the North Sea oil rigs were in trouble, but survived it; and then a new gas strike was announced by Shell and Esso only forty miles off the Norfolk coast. In a South London garden, a man exercising his dog struck treasure of a different kind—the stolen World Cup, the golden football trophy, found in a parcel on the ground. The Times, affected perhaps by all the calls for radical changes which had appeared in its pages lately, decided to risk one of its own: from May 3, it will print news on its front page. Oxford won Saturday's Boat Race, and a 50 to 1 horse, Anglo, won what may be the last Grand National to be run at Aintree.