— Portrait of the Week- SEMEMBER CAME IN with a long - range
forecast of gales and frost from the Met. Office, Messrs. Wilson and Heath returned from their summer holidays, and in spite of the new half-cock end- of-August Bank Holiday, which still cost eighty- six lives on the roads, there was a feeling that the autumn term was about to begin. After eight days in space, astronauts Cooper and Conrad splashed safely into the Atlantic, while in Washington President Johnson was reported to be 'planning an international Great Society. , THE CAR MEN started to go back to work; the recent strikes were estimated as having cost BMC alone £5-6 million. The average annual earnings of the British factory worker are now apparently £1,000, a fact which showed that commentators who dragged out the cloth-cap, 1930s image of unemployment during the car-strikes, were just not 'in touch.' Plots were descried against those tribunes of the people, Dr. Castro and President Nasser, while in Kashmir a new war seemed to be getting under way: and in Singapore, Prime Minister Lee claimed the power to give the British twenty-four hours' notice to quit. At least this time the guns aren't pointing out to sea.
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THE PRICES AND INCOMES BOARD declared that bread and flour prices should not go up for six months, during which time the industry is to become more efficient. The drift towards the 7 per cent mortgage rate continued, however. Spy micro- phones were reported from the British ambassa- dor's new residence at Warsaw, but it was claimed that 'work study' had improved security at naval shore establishments. The Test match was washed out by rain : and General Sir Lewis Halliday, at ninety-five the oldest living VC, formally amended the citation issued when he won his medal during the Boxer uprising of 1900.
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MR. K. KEINO of Kenya ran the mile at the White City in 3 min. 54.2 sec.—the third fastest mile ever, a mile to remember; while in New York the market was bullish, with the Dow-Jones average rising steadily. A new rail go-slow was threatened, while in darkest Soho a snake-dancer fled from her stage, bitten by a nine-foot boa con- strictor. Said the proprietor: 'We had to pour buckets of cold water over the snake's head before it let go.' Meanwhile, US scientists in Ohio have confirmed predictions that the earth is being bombarded by a mysterious weightless particle, the neutrino, which travels at the speed of light, and can pass through 100 million miles of lead. Seven neutrinos have been detected at the bottom of a gold mine in South Africa. Have You got a neutrino at the bottom of your garden?
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