Within the actual week of the 50th Independence milestone we are, so like others in my age group are doing, let me paint just a few specific word–pictures of this week exactly half a century ago.
I and others have been telling of the fever-pitch excitement generated by the five new national colours and Golden Arrowhead flag in the 
weeks and days before May 26, 1966. They are taken for granted now but remember we sixty-plus knew and revered (?) only Britain’s Union Jack’s red, white and blue!
So there were the five colours in
