6 DECEMBER 1963, page 9

Long-range Guessing So It Is To Be Cold In December.

The first long-range weather forecast for Britain is a re-. markably cagey piece of soothsaying. Only eighty words, and only the last five of them, 'but little snow is......

A Spectator's Notebook

PERHAPS the Labour Party here had better find a new cry after the defeat of the Labour Party in both Australia and New Zealand. 'Time for a change' cut no ice, even though Sir......

No Competition

Architects and others interested in the arts seem to be pleased with Geoffrey Rippon's de- cision not to throw the design of the new Foreign Office building open to competition.......

Private Meeting : Public Apology

What Mr. Brown did or did not say on tele- vision matters little. Whether his manner was or was not appropriate to the occasion is no doubt debatable. But there can be no two /......

As I Was Saying . . .

All four of the permanent new features in this issue are contributed by old friends of the Spectator. Murray Kempton will now be writing weekly from Washington, alternating a......

The Hangover From Prohibition

By ANDREW SINCLAIR nROHIBMON in America seems only a memory, r or fiction on a film. Yet it ended exactly thirty years ago, on December 5, 1933. When it was over, after nearly......

Seasonal Tip The Most Interesting Two-year-old In The...

isn't mentioned in it. And, of course, it is Irish-trained. J. M. Rogers thinks Santa , Claus is the best horse he has trained since Hard Ridden, which won the Epsom Derby in ,......

The Spectator For Christmas

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