Portrait of the Week
BLUE STREAK WAS FIRED at last, with a nine-minute flight from Woomera, after four false starts, the first positive result of £100 million of work. Other- wise this was a week of backfiring: the Opposition quickly dropped its virulent attack on the Rootes car firm allowing Chrysler to take a 30 per cent interest, and the Government found its hopes of turning Labour's majority of 253 at Faversham were dashed when the Opposition increased its majority fifteen-fold. In Moscow Mr.. Wilson spoke Russian on TV, English to Mr. Khrushchev, and returned a faded Russian banner captured by British troops fighting the infant Soviet State in 1919.
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ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY Of D-Day, Lord Montgomery revived other old battles, accusing ex-General Eisenhower of never 'really under- standing the strategy of the Normandy campaign.' But ex-President Eisenhower had problems of his own, trying to find a moderate Republican'to lead the 'stop Goldwater' campaign. A week of snubs abroad: in India the Shastri Cabinet had no place for the new Premier's main rival, Mr. Desai, the Common Market threw out the Mansholt Plan for cereal prices, Southern Rhodesia is to be excluded from the Commonwealth Premiers' con- ference, and the Ethiopian envoy to Sweden was shot by a former chauffeur. Mr. Khrushchev was rumoured to have made a secret trip to Rumania, President Tito made a sudden trip to Leningrad and Mr. Heath went to Geneva in an attempt to save the UN trade talks.
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LORD BEAVERBROOK DIED two weeks after his eighty-fifth birthday. No further deaths occurred in the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, although over 400 people are in hospital. The BBC reprieved a character in The Dales who was due, to die from typhoid next week. A National Opinion Poll re- vealed that BBC-2 was a comparative flop, with about 90,000 sets switched regularly to it, and the RAF rescued a disc-jockey suffering from food Poisoning on Radio Sutch. Miss Keeler was re- leased after her prison sentence for perjury, and Peter Rachman's name was removed from the list of founder members of Chichester Festival Theatre.
THE QUEEN was involved in a car crash, when Prince Philip collided with an L-driver who sheep- ishly admitted afterwards he had already been tined once for driving alone. Mr. Henry Brooke announced higher fines for Mods and Rockers causing malicious damage, and a Cambridge don revealed that only 15 per cent of all crimes are brought into the open and punished. Seven State schools joined the Headmasters' Conference, the new Defence Ministry staff has risen by 900, and Mr. 'Dick' Whittington—a lineal descendant— has become City Chamberlain. Lord Mancroft round that his' association with Global Tours would mean an Arab boycott of the company, and revealed in the Lords that it is still a criminal offence to sell a second-hand anchor to anyone under sixteen before eight O'clock in the morning, and is punishable by a fine of £20.
FIRST TEST WAS DRAWN, With the honours going to England. Meanwhile in the soccer world England took the wooden spoon in the 'Little World Cup' tournament in •Brazil, and more E"1-11.111 Division players faced suspension after allegations of bribers
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