22 DECEMBER 1967, page 7

Land Of Doubts

AMERICA FERDINAND MOUNT New York—The small bespectacled map in the Los Angeles waiting-room was explaining how most of America's problems could be solved by more accurate......

Almanack Pudding

CENTENARY ' STRIX By comparing it to a plum pudding I mean no disrespect to Whitaker's Almanack: on the contrary. One does not—one cannot—compare plum puddings with other......