12 AUGUST 1972, page 5

The London Scene

Yanks in town Minette Marrin Taxi drivers, pub owners, and souvenir salesmen all agree — Americans are meaner than before, and they have started counting their change. 1972......

Corridors . .

PUZZLE SOMETIMES wonders which eight MPs he would take with him to a desert island — always, of course, excepting the Speaker and the Official Solicitor. For a start' he would......