7 JUNE 1963, page 7

Overheated

One of life's little shocks overlooked by Mrs. 1970 (nice girl that, 1 like her teeth) is that in some places, if you forge ahead to the future with central heating, the local......

Let's Be Frank The Newspapers Are Inordinately Fussed...

spectacularly trivial remark of Frank Phillips, especially when you consider that it was reasonable, it was clean, and it happened at seven in the morning when surely, nobody......

A Spectator's Notebook

rsi OT only Catholics, and not only Protestants, but agnostics, and doubtless atheistic Com- munists too, have mourned 'the death of Pope John XXIII. It is probably true than in......

The Rising Tide Of Colour

By D. W. BROGAN N the great wave of racial bigotry that struck I the United States during and just after the First World War, a vigorous alarmist gave the above title to his......

Away From It All The 50 M.p.h. Speed Limit Sounded

like a great idea last week, but it couldn't have made much difference to the motoring public in the South whose cars spent Whit weekend standing dead still in the merry rush to......

Columba's Island

There must be something sad in completing a life's work, but no doubt George MacLeod will still have plenty on his plate when the last touch of restoration is finished at the......