7 OCTOBER 1972, page 15

Thinking About The Future

Alastair Buchan Things to Come: Thinking about the 70's and 80's by Herman Kahn and B. BruceBriggs (Macmillan £3.00) The future, as Theodore Roosevelt said seventy years ago,......

Ambiguous Sort Of Clay

Beverley Nichols Escape from the Shadows Robin Maugham (Hodder & Stoughton, £3.50) "All of us," observes Somerset Maugham "have crossed thesholds of which we do not boast."......