6 JULY 1974, page 15

Science

Acid rain Bernard Dixon Scientists are fond of understatement. If you turn up any of most epoch-making discoveries of this century in the learned 'journals where they were first......

Religi O N

Jesus wept Martin Sullivan "Sunt lacrymae rerum," says Virgil. "There are tears in things." And the mortality of all we value touches our minds. Our delights are transitory and......

Charivari

Kung phooey Kung Fu, I can't get away from it. You know how it is with a craze, it's like an earthquake. One moment you know nothing about it, the next it swallows you up. And......

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Poor reception Philip Kleimnan Britain will hear its sixth commercial radio station the week after next when Newcastle's curiously named Metropolitan Radio goes on the air_ It......