18 OCTOBER 1963, page 9

Valachi's Big Deal

From MURRAY KEMPTON WASHINGTON T HE solemn attendance upon Joseph Valachi's memories of life as a mafioso has been the main public business of the United States Senate for a......

Against The Law' For The Second Time In The Space

of a few Weeks, the suspicion has been aroused that the police have 'planted' pieces of brick on demon- strators whom they wish to charge with being in possession of an......

The Missing Link This Week's Decision To Dispense With The

services of a Link Man is something of an event. I cannot recall a programme of this kind taking the step before (World in Action is not a parallel case, as it confines itself......

Pas- Devout Les Domestiques The Quotation Of The Week Was

from the delegate from the floor who asserted at the time the Premier was undergoing his opera- tion., 'I am sure that when all this is over, we shall find that Mr. Macmillan......

No Return And That Reminds Me Of Another Battle With

bureaucracy, which I see has moved into corres- pondence columns recently. Last August, in a fit of absence of mind, I bought a single ticket to a Sussex destination, oily to......