... Perched on the Swiss Alps I read of considerable argument about security in British prisons. Has anybody tried adapting the magic eye or interrupted ray principle, as used for counting attendance at exhibitions, to pri son security particularly after prisoners are locked in their cells 1 The ray or rays would natu rally have to operate from floor to ceiling 2 The prison would be divided into ...

... Censorship is something nearly everyone has strong views about but I'd like to draw attention to the anomalous position of plays and newspapers. When a serious playwright starts to write for the theatre on the contemporary, political or sexual theme, he is subjected to a rigorous and at times asinine form of censorship through the Lord Chamberlain and his office, whereas detailed evidence from ...

... A certain word known to all of us and discarded with our uniforms, recently floated through the shocked ether. In the vocabulary of the services it is a mere repelling hiccough and the attention it received was out of all proportion to its unimportance. This word was at least cor rectly pronounced, clear and staccato, without the refinement of two little fs, but other words, which are in ...

... Since I arrived in Australia in September, I have been working in the St George's League Club in Sydney every night, and in the day-time re hearsing for my weekly TV show, which is on the lines of Ready, Steady, Go! The tem perature is in the 70s and over here it is still only spring. I am told it reaches over 110 degrees in the summer, but by then I shall be back in the old country where it ...

... LSD Almost tnree years ago i was given LSD, but under strict hospital supervision. I had no idea what it was at the time. I only knew it was something rather different, as I had to spend the night in hospital. Even now, I do not care to look back on one of the most frightening times I have ever been through, and most cer tainly would not care to go through again, at any cost. The ...

... May I clarify a few points arising from your article Holiday Accommodation in London. As you may know we are the largest accommoda tion bureau in the country. Due to the overwhelming de mand we have received for luxury apartments for both permanent and short term tenancies all through the year, we have a department dealing exclusively with this side of our business who are able to arrange a ...

... So Mrs Barbara Castle does not consider amber head lights to be necessary? I would suggest she should learn how to drive before taking the decision of keeping our blind ing white lights on the road. Reducing the glare would re duce the number of fatal accidents. The French are not only excellent drivers, but reason able and disciplined, which goes against everything we English usually say ...

... Thank you, London, for making a long-standing ambi tion of mine finally come true. In the last six years, while appearing in cabaret in places like Canada, Australia, Ber muda and Puerto Rico, I have been wondering what it would feel like to do cabaret here, in the very hub of the show busi ness world. Well, the past four weeks at the Talk of the Town have fulfilled my ambition and shown me ...

... Before coming to this isle I had grown accustomed to having my patronage of restaurants and places-of- entertainment regarded as a boon by several proprietors. In London, however, I was astonished to discover that many of the clientele actually paid for the privilege of spending money in such places. Can your staff, all of whom are so clearly switched on to the development and mean ing of ...

... I find that the young people of London are caught up in an attitude, almost a passive re bellion, against the world as they see it. They have reached the stage where all they want to do is forget the world's problems and enjoy life and why not? They are not the cause of colour bars, or assasinations, or wars. Why should they worry about things that do not concern them? It is this attitude of ...

... We enjoyed Angela Ince's latest information on Mr Phillipe du Claque. Although none of us have the good tor ture to own any of Mr du Claque's records, we will be listening to him avidly from now on. We would also like to assure you of our devoted loyalty to Twitch and the Terrible Seven -we may even name a group after him. Leno Rothschild, Hollywood. ...

... It makes me mad to think that the amount of money, mental and mathematical calculation, mech anical ingenuity and, I presume, artistic ability which have gone into the making of these ridiculous round things which say 30, 40, 50, 70 on the M4, is a complete and utter waste of time. The other night I was passed by 20 cars in the 30-mile limit and by 18 on the 40-mile limit (on both sides) which ...