14 APRIL 1967, page 6

Macbirdiand

AMERICA MURRAY KEMPTON New York—William Manchester's The Death of a President is clerical and Barbara Garson's MacBird is anti-clerical; yet each will have trouble making its......

Spectator's Note Book

J. \\T M. THOMPSON If a policeman or some other more shadowy official investigator chooses to tap my tele- phone, he has to obtain, the permission of the Home Secretary before......