... THE English have a reputation for phlegmatic coolness, sanity and unemotional behaviour. Yet, oddly enough, most of the famous eccentrics, those lunatic adventurers whose stories are told the world over, have been English. They have mainly preferred to live abroad, no doubt finding in foreign countries a more favourable atmosphere and greater tolerance for their exploits. Une ot the most ...

... The Channel Tunnel >4 Jules Verne story that came true all but the last chapter By Walter Shepherd THE pioneering work on the Channel Tunnel has all been done, and were its fantastic story not true it might well have come from the pen of Jules Verne. The original conception, now almost one hundred and fifty years old, was itself a theme for a scientific romance, and the subsequent planning of ...

... Is theSuif Stre Shifting TTZ7Y-\^ Wtfma M uckLeij J I The best known, the best defined and the most remarkable of all the ocean currents, and which indirectly modifies the climate of Western Europe THE weather in this country has always been a portentous subject for conversation and conjecture, for obvious reasons. It has also provided an easy get-out for the con versationally paralysed. Now ...