-- Portrait of the Week— As EVENTFUL, if not invigorating, week
for the country which (since the death of Sunday of Mr. Norman Dodds) is now ruled by the Labour party On a majority of two. The Ford Motor Company had its troubles again, whereupon Mr. „George Brown ordered an urgent inquiry, and 18,000 men Were idle at the British Motor Corporation works by Wednesday. Simultaneously Mr. Bottomley claimed to have discovered an urgent, unfulfilled demand for British cars in West Africa. Some BEA workers, not caring to be outdone, issued _their traditional dark threats about the Bank Holiday weekend, and the NUR baffled all observers when they refused to countenance liner trains, whether on Railways Board terms or on their own, and flatly rejected all proposals made hY their own negotiating committee.
THE AML.RIC AN ASTRONAUTS circled the earth in a Vehicle no bigger than two telephone boxes and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Cooper established a new world record as the man who has been lo.ngest in space. On the ground, President Nasser Visited King Feisal, dined off pomegranates on gold-rimmed plates, and agreed to withdraw 88Yptian troops from the Yemen during the ,c)roing year. The South African government con- `Heated Mr. Laurence Gandar's passport and Police detained another prisoner who had talked to the Rand Daily Mail.
lilt FOOTBALL SEASON started, none too well, (treat Britain won the European tug-of-war .,hampionship, and Mr. Herbert (`The Whisper') waldron won the national town-criers' champion- ship. Rumania changed her name, so did a man. named Cod, and a widow left £1,000 to Dr. Bo. dkin Adams of Eastbourne. Villagers in Lincolnshire made. a snowman from hailstones, and the harassed campers in the South of France „,W.110 recently fled from forest fires were again in 'Light from rain and torrents of mud. Scottish Proclaimed dissatisfaction with the House of `-i..0111mons Christmas card which shows a Scottish "mg Paying homage to an English king, some seven hundred years ago.
THINK IT WOULD BE TRUE to say that whisky is what keeps the British economy afloat.' said Lord Polworth, chairman of the Scottish Council, while the government of Uganda launched their own new drink, as strong as gin, tasting of bananas, and apparently a vast success. Police in different Parts of the country received six poisoned arrows al a sheaf, two lethal automatics no longer than a cigarette, 'and thirty unexploded incendiary bombs from a man who had a habit of collecting thein during the war: and the Minister of Agriculture warned of a bad season for liver fluke.
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