Commentary

1963—the year of reports. When looking back there is a tendency to associate a particular year with a specific occurrence or happening. Some years are easy to label in this way; for example, 1939 was the year of the war, 1945 the year of the peace and so on. What about 1963? We have already labelled it in our mind as ‘the year of the reports’. Admittedly they have been sandwiched into the latter half of the year but we are beginning to feel that life without either discussion of a presented report or expectation of a new report is not normal.