Monday 18 March 1963
Britain and the Space Age. Research is ongoing for a manned space plane capable of going into orbit. A long series of wind-tunnel tests on models are being made at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Also under consideration, the likely shape of planes to come.
Eight Britains who have been on holiday at the ski-resort of Zermatt, Switzerland during the past month have returned home with typhoid. Swiss health officials said that the infection had come from abroad, but they were unwilling to name the country.
How to get the Glad Look by Felicity Green. Wear a dress - the neckline can plunge to any depth you like. Shorten your hemlines to 34 inches from the floor. Buy one of the new Shift dresses in a size too small. Wear the latest Green-Light eye make-up. The Glad Look is swinging, zingy, far-out.
A woman locked in the “ladies” for 45 minutes at Hinckley, Leicester, was rescued on the weekend by PC Chambers.
Five television shows scheduled to close:
Dixon of Dock Green - after seven years of “non-pulse-raising low-powered drama”
Dancing Club - the BBC’s longest-running television ballroom dancing programme
Tales of Mystery with John Laurie
No Hiding Place - lasted forty-four episodes
It Happened Like This - a sapper series
Television highlights: Panorama - the hijacking of lorries. The Scarlet Pimpernel. Look to Tomorrow - machines and man.
Radio highlights: Music for Dancing. Count Basie.
Weather: bright intervals with thundery showers. Outlook - changeable. 10c, 50f.