7 MARCH 1970, page 26

Lines Blocked

Sir: Mr Bendixson, in his interesting article 'Lines blocked' (21 February), writes of 'diesels double-headed as in the days of steam', in order that trains can surge up over......

Off Beat

Sir: The kind review of my book All What Jazz (28 February) by your correspondent Mr Booker contains one factual error. I never gave my jazz column up: it is alive and well and......

Pride Of Place

Sir: Hurrah for Mr R. L. Traverse of the Army and Navy Club whose letter appeared in your issue of 21 February. I retired from 'gainful employment' in 1948 at the age of fifty,......

Afterthought

TV-tube doctors JOHN WELLS Scientists now believe that it may soon be possible to produce doctors actually inside the cathode ray tube. This shock revela- tion, which is the......

The Duke's Tubes

Sir: In the interests of accuracy may I state that Mr Braham has misunderstood what I wrote. In his letter Mr Braham says: 'I would question too Mr Grant's statement that the......

Bridgwater's Last Chance

Sir: Mr Philip Dudley Hawkins' letter (24 February), asserts that, in the interests of democracy. the general public should always be assumed to be correct. Such an attitude is......

Negro Violence

Sir: The letter of Dr E. J. Mishan (21 February) about the 'responsibilities' of Negroes is both ambiguous and dangerous. First, the ambiguity. What means the con- clusion 'that......