29 AUGUST 1987, page 12

`our Don Quixote'

Hugh Trevor-Roper explains the vast illusion which possessed Rudolf Hess I SAW Rudolf Hess only in the dock in Nuremberg. He was an unforgettable fi- gure: those sunken eyes......

A Blind Grope In Pandora's Box

Genetic engineering arouses many fears. Myles Harris set out to discover what protects us from its most horrific consequences UNTIL the Fifties there was little outside......