The Olympics are coming

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• Shaping up for Munich

  (The training for this article involved two basic types of preparation. One was the gathering of information by talking to people so that I could radically improve my state of knowledge about pre- Munich preparations. This is technically called Research. The other was to go out running in Hyde Park in order to gain first-hand experience of the challenge. We call this Light Relief.)

• €…And the Shape of Olympics to Come

  HEATH adds some new events for everyone to take part in

• On the Buses

  Fare increases here, experiments with free bus travel in Rome. London Transport took ALAN BRIEN for a ride

• Sing a song of sixpence

  ALAN COREN and HEWISON, just back from gloom-soaked Malta, report

  par Alan Coren
• English Voodoo or Just Fun?

  Gilbert and Sullivan began their collaboration a hundred years ago. We asked GEORGE MIKES to discover why they have worn so well

• Bundles from Britain

  The Japanese are not the on/y ones sending food parcels to America. MAHOOD reports on our own aid programme

  par Mahood
• My Man for The White House

  This is Presidential Election year in America. Richard Nixon is hot favourite - but are there no outsiders? Punch has asked severa/ American writers to nominate their own candidates for The White House. First, GEORGE AXELROD

  par George Axelrod
• Zank ’Eaven for Leetle Accents

  VINCENT MULCHRONE polishes his pronunciation

  par Vincent Mulchrone