4 OCTOBER 1969, page 12

Table Talk

Report from the heartland DENIS BROGAN Des Moines, Iowa—One effect of being in the very heart of 'the heartland', is to be forced to reflect on the remoteness of Britain. The......

Medicine

Boned wonders JOHN ROWAN WILSON I once knew a man who had chronic back- ache. He had had every kind of treatment over a period of years, but it did him no good. He was bent......

Unfair For All

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Many public schoolboys during the holidays would like to be taken for secondary modern boys.—O. Van Oss, Headmaster of Charter- house. Labour will reject......