23 JULY 1965, page 5

Soviet Union

The Eccentrics DEV MURARKA writes from Moscow: Slapstick comedy has never been a strong point of the Soviet cinema. It is not totally absent, but the tradition is a weak one and......

Railways

Trouble on the Line MAURICE. GENT writes: When before the election Mr. Wilson was all agog with the wonders of the technological revo- lution and spoke so enthusiastically about......

The Press

All Got Up by the Press? C HRISTOPHER BOOKER writes : Their first reward came on Sunday, June 27 --t he day after the Prime Minister's announce- ment at Glasgow that there would......