— Portrait of the Week— THOUGH HIS PIPE burnt a
hole in his suit, Mr. Wilson hardly set the TUC on fire when he kicked off Labour's election campaign as the Congress's fraternal delegate. Nevertheless, a news agency misprint suggested that the Opposition leader was Challenging the Prime Minister's weekend call for a 'gay and virile' nation with a vision of a 'stan- dard of loving' that would be 'dynamic and extro- vert.' With two opinion polls showing a Tory lead, the Daily Telegraph's Gallup Poll diagnosed an increased Labour lead: meanwhile the Guardian proudly reported that 'Liberals Are Ready at the Tape'—at their present rate of slip- Ping back, will they ever reach the starting post?
IN ALL THE ELECTIONEERING, polling day remains unknown—following the latest Butlerism most Parsers forecast October 15, but the Herald Put it one week later. The seventh biography of Harold Wilson in the past six months was pub- lished. Ladbroke's revealed they had taken £156,000 in election bets, and Tory advertising this Year has been seven times as heavy as Labour's. George Brown's brother is on , his way, and was short-listed for a safe Labour seat. At Kinross the Scottish poet, Hugh McDiarmid, is to oppose Sir Alec Douglas Home as Commu,nist candi- date: unperturbed, Sir Alec this week sold two farms for 07,750.
SOT FOR THE TUC this was an awkward week, with 4 unanimous motion calling for a thirty-five-hour Week before even half the unions have achieved their historic goal of the forty-hour week. And Union reform has slowed to a halt, with those behind crying back and those in front staying Silent. Mr. Amery survived a harrowing week, as details of an Anglo-French missile project were leaked, as BOAC was rumoured to have made ZIO million profit, and as ex-BOAC chairman Sir Matthew Slattery claimed he was sacked as 'Amery's scapegoat.' A Labour backbencher was onamused at a BBC hoax film of 'Whoresheugh Castle, now an atotnic air-raid shelter for Cabinet Ministers caught on northern grouse moors In the event of war,' and our export effort was helped by the £10 sale of two pigeons belong- ing to the Queen to a US fancier.
ME. DENNIS HIGGS, the lecturer kidnapped into South Africa, came to Britain just before South Africa applied for his extradition from Northern Rhodesia. In Malawi Dr. Banda sacked three Ministers and accepted another four resignations, Sir Alec Douglas Home and Mr. Ian Smith dis- cussed Southern Rhodesian independence, and after fourteen months the UN admitted failure in the Yemen' IN SOUTH VIETNAM General Khanh returned to Power, less his beard: John Bloom went to New York less iris beard: Mr. Marples appealed to People to see his beard 'in perspective.' Britain is lo have an independent space programme, and India'na won the St. Leger. Meanwhile Peking announced this week's top twenty-six pop-songs, With 'Always in the forefront in building social- ism' more popular than 'Sing a folk-song to the
Party.'
THE TWENTy-FIETH ANNIVERSARY of the Second World War—celebrated with twenty-five-mile- Inng queues to go across.the new Forth Bridge, with 30,000 people eating a six-ton pie at Denby Dale in Yorkshire, and with a Hants angler being lined £3 for fishing for salmon with worms four days too soon. Two soccer managers resigned, and a Sunday newspaper alleged that Eventon look drugs to win the league championship two seasons ago.
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