—Portrait of the Week— 'YOU MUST EXPLAIN all those headlines',
the Prime Minister told Mr. Wilson in the Commons, before twice apologising for giving his own paraphrase of the Labour leader's misquoted remarks on the Royal UN Navy. But the most intriguing head- line for many weeks was in the Daily Express: 'Tory Rebels Dig In', it commented, the prelude to forty back-benchers ignoring a three-line whip that demanded support for Mr. Heath's r.p.m. Bill, which Mr. Maudling described as an 'integral part of the Government's economic policy'. If Sir Alec reads beyond the headlines, he would have seen the Chancellor twice give a warning of tax increases and refuse to reintroduce the groat. Mr. Wilson went to Liverpool, called for a second New Deal, and grimaced through 'Let's Go With Labour' put to a passable imitation of music.
ALL CAPITALISTS NOW: Mr. Khrushchev boldly declared that Russians 'must fight against egali- tarianism, and for the principle of pay according to work.' Cyprus went on disintegrating: Mr. Sandys warned U Thant that Britain could not carry the peacekeeping burden much longer. Peace talks between Malaysia and Indonesia broke down, but Mr. Sandys reached agreement with Mr. Kenyatta for a UK-Kenyan military link. An escaped convict caused another sensation at the Ruby trial in Dallas, President Johnson appointed ten women to senior posts, and prepared to meet the Southern filibuster against the civil rights Bill. Meanwhile in New Hampshire, Messrs. Rocke- feller and Goldwater saw their faint Presidential prospects all but snuffed out by Mr. Cabot Lodge, who won the first of the 1964 primaries. Field- Marshal Okello was declared persona non grata in Zanzibar, and Mandy Rice-Davies was asked to leave Turkey.
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SPRING'S SECOND Royal baby was 5 lb. 7 oz.—•the Queen's fourth child, third in succession to the throne. Sir Edward Boyle had his salary cut by £500 on appointment as assistant to Mr. Hogg, but did present proposals for giving higher pay to teachers. Railwaymen were refused a forty- hour week, and wages trouble looms up on the whole industrial front. Britain's new bomber, the TSR-2, made its first journey across England at 13 m.p.h., but the Trident went into service for BEA. A survey on 'Mr, Average Briton' revealed that he drinks three bottles of Scotch and fifty gallons of beer per year, and buys five pairs of socks, one and a half shoes, and two and a half shirts annually. A street above Mr. Average, new Peer Mr. Roy Thomson chose the title Lord Thomson of Fleet.
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A IILCIIC WEEK FOR sex: the BMA entered the 'teenage promiscuity' field again, blaming the Bomb, alcohol and pornography, and warning that medical services for dealing with VD were in danger of breaking down. The Minister of Health revealed in the Commons that a doctor's refusal to attend late at night a patient who had run out of contraceptive tablets was not a breach of his terms of service, and the Army's public relations director offered a bottle of champagne to the first BBC playwright portraying the sexual life of an Army officer as normal.
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LORD'S CRICKET GROUND may lose its tavern, to be turned into a sixteen-storey block of flats, Cassius Clay changed his name to Cassius X and then to Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston was gaoled and bailed, and the Celtic v. Rangers soccer match resulted in sixty arrests. A Swedish pianist gashed himself with an electric saw while demolishing his piano after a recital. Liz Taylor was divorced from Eddie Fisher at last, and the Seventh International Milk Day is to be June 2.
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