4 OCTOBER 1963, page 8

The Empty Pulpit

From MURRAY KEMPTON wASBINGToN O N a Sunday, persons still unknown and unlikely ever to be punished blew up Bir- mingham's 16th Street Baptist Church and killed four Negro girls......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HIS week's celebrations of the fourteenth I anniversary of the Chinese People's Republic coincided with a lull in Russo-Chinese vitupera- tion, but it would be a mistake to......

The Willing Horse What A Man Wants, I Reflected, Is

not the gift of perpetual youth (which would soon get him ostracised by his ageing contemporaries without necessarily endearing him to their juniors), but the gift of crisp old......

1746 And All That

When I was a child our Scottish housekeeper used to lessen the impact of all disasters, mishaps or disappointments by reminding us that 'Worse happened at Culloden,' and I grew......