13 JANUARY 1967, page 20

Be Careful

Four steps cut in the snow. I mounted; on the right Four blobs of tired blue. (The wind is tough: lean out.) I felt snow stroke my boot, Then crunch, submit. Descending (take......

Literature, Money And The Republic

NEW YORK LETTER By M. L. ROSENTHAL O tsre. of the most confident predictions one jean make for 1967 (American literary division) is that l'aflaire William L. Manchester v. the......

Lost Leader

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL once described the late Victorian decades as 'an age of great men and small events.' It is doubtful if this description could be defended on a number of......