Portrait of the Week
411ER THIRTEEN YEARS Of preparation, the Wil- nian package deal was unveiled to Parliament, Paying lip-service to ending restrictive practices in PldustrY, and resolving to settle old scores rang- ing from steel re-nationalisation to political con- tributions by companies. Stock Exchange prices r„'ase in relief, until word came of an autumn litidget next week to pay for it all. Before Portia- rnent opened, Mr. Wilson had the shock of a tr,ensPorary cut in majority, as Sir Geoffrey de ,rreitas was hurt in a car smash. But, Labour faders must have been heartened by the Daily elegraph's report that a 'major flu epidemic is unlikely this winter.'
1WENTY-FIVE MILLION AMERICANS went to the polls t° Plump for Senator Goldwater, but were not nearly enough to prevent the biggest landslide in history as President Johnson was confirmed I° Power. Among the nondescript candidates standing in a few States was the first Negro to be a Presidential candidate—Mr. Clifton Deberry, title representative df the Socialist Workers' Party. 'n Europe President de Gaulle seemed to be pro- '(ling the new Administration's first headache, °Y threatening to walk out of NATO. Britain gave thC go-ahead to the Channel Tunnel, as a con- solation prize to France for the rumoured death of the Concord aircraft.
41°41) DEVLIN BEGAN his race against time, trying `° find a wages formula that will avert the dock strike scheduled for December I. Meanwhile the 1,t-JC decided to investigate examples of unofficial Strikes after they had ended. Higher rail fares Were threatened, and the Minister of Transport Pronounced a halt to rail closures. Office h,ltilding is to be cut back in London. Professor Ourothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize, the third woman to be so honoured, following Mme Marie Curie and Mrtie Irene Joliot-Curie. Dr. Barbara Moore threatened suicide because 'a sewer is to be built 'terms her land, but a personal plea to Mr. Cross- ?0 brought no relief. In the Law Courts, a Lon- °n University graduate lost his case against beck College, when he claimed that through the college's negligence and fraud he was given a third-class degree instead of the first that he deserved.
'NA% Imo A SPORTING chance with the Conseiva- tives' was Mr. Ian Smith's plaintive comment after he had gently dropped his blustering threats Lc' grab independence for Southern Rhodesia. wreanwhile, King Saud , of Saudi Arabia was °J1sted in favour of his brother, the Imam of the ,,Yetnen was rumoured to have been killed, and ur. Banda of Malawi called for the return of a former Minister, Mr. Chipembere, 'alive if pos- !hie-- if not, then any other way.' Europe 'r!"Nled at Britain's import surcharge and British ;Thiltary aircraft dropped two and a half million flets on Indonesia. Moscow continued its de- iChrushchevisation, with a list of his twenty-nine errors.- particularly that he undecorously banged -12is shoe on the table at the UN and tried to make IS wife President of the Union of Soviet Women.
ILIW, EGG MARKETING BOARD annoyed the GPO by ,nooking £72,000 of advertising time on Radio sr,a.roline, and British Railways annoyed a usrighton Tory MP by giving VIP treatment to a LPe.sylY elected Labour MP. Policemen asked for a "Igher boot allowance, the Windmill Theatre Fin,sed to become a cinema, and Rolling-Stone naircuts in Crewe went up from 3s. to 5s. The first kind in the Grand National battle went to those W,,hrs want to save the Aintree racecourse, and the "at-racing season ended: on their nap selections °fly five newspaper tipsters were 'showing any Profit at all.
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