30 NOVEMBER 1985, page 25

Terence Conran

Sir: I have read your profile on Sir Terence Conran (16 November), To me it seems an excellent study in resentful envy. As you kindly pointed out I was around for some nine......

Buttons

Sir: Alexander Chancellor's pronounce- ment on cuff buttons (Television, 16 November) seems to be a large generalisa- tion from Sir Anthony Eden. The rule surely is (it......

Decimal Points Sir: Two Omissions And One Surprising...

Kingsley Amis's A to Z (`Sod the public', 19 October). Our coinage was not altered to decimal but to centesimal. Apart from some near-eastern countries which have millesimal......