12 NOVEMBER 1977, page 18

Very Nearly Right

Sir: Richard Ingrams (5 November) challenges the point made by Elie Wiesel in the Long Search programme on The Chosen People (31 October) — and quoted in Ronald Eyre's article......

Laetrile

Sir: Not long ago (8 October) you published a letter from a Dr Templeton-Wade claiming cancer specialist Dr Virginia Livingston as an opponent of laetrile therapy. In fact, she......

The 'casanova' Case

Sir: In trying to apply to the case of Corporal Booth, von Mises' warning against allowing government to protect us from our own foolishness, Geoffrey Wheatcroft (5 November)......

Barber Boom

Sir: I would like to remind Nicholas Davenport that at the time of the Heath-Barber 'boom', for which we have all had to pay so dearly, he had a bet with a colleague that the FT......