--- Portrait of the Week— DOWN CAME THE POSTERS, while
newspapers were bared of political advertising, immediately after Sir Alec Douglas-Home gave polling date as Octo- ber 15. Mr. Woodcock told the TUC another Tory Government would be 'insufferable,' Mr. Wilson promised a horn of plenty, while the Liberals pleaded for enough MPs to 'influence' the new Parliament. The National Opinion Poll still fav- oured the Tories, but another- piece of research in- dicated that although the Premier (with the sun in cancer, the node and the moon in. Libra) was favoured by the stars, polling day itself was better for Mr. Wilson.
ONE SHADOW OVER THE ELECTION may be the threatened dock strike, while teachers are becom- ing restive. The Home Secretary was reported as 'aiming to make murder more difficult,' the new Scotland Yard building is too small before it has been completed,•and Mr. Brooke complained of left-wing vendettas against the police,' adding that our policemen were wonderful. Britain's secret weapon, the TSR-2 aircraft, fell off a lorry before taking to the air, but the Minister of Aviation, Mr. Amery, promised research into adapting hover6raft for military purposes.
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MR. IAN SMITH, the Southern Rhodesian Premier, returned empty-handed, promising to test African °Pinion, as well as European, on whether inde- Penderice was wanted' under the present constitu- tion. Mr. Nkomo rejected any suggestions of the customary sounding of opinions' as 'utterly un- acceptable,' but Mr. Smith refused to allow a poll. In Cyprus, Turkish-Cyprioti undergoing economic blockade refused to-eat food sent through by the Cyprus Government: ,a ship left Ankara for Cyprus. Mr. Khrushchev claimed that Russia had developed a weapon capable of destroying the globe, Dr. Banda claimed that Malawi was• not going to be another Congo,' and General Khanhe in South Vietnam was reported to have survived Yet another coup.
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DEMOLITION BEGAN of the shanty-town of shacks at London Airport, which should give way to a Modern building by 1970. Mr. Marples claimed that the Channel Tunnel was a certainty, while 150 volunteers at Farnborough played bingo to the scream of jet engines to test reactions to noise. Soviet scientists were reported to have discovered a skeleton of the abominable snow-woman, which later turned out to be an ordinary female skeleton; the Queen's head is to come off East African cur- rency. and the yacht Sovereign lost its first race for the America's Cup.
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111E. 'DAILY HERALD' DISAPPEARED, though most of Its characteristics reappeared under the banner of the Sun. Blackpool comedians complained at 'joke Poaching' by rivals, and a coach-driver was fined 50 at Wells for breaking off a piece of a 48,000- Year-old stalagmite. The BBC's share of the TV audience slipped even more, and the Corporation decided not to send Christmas cards this year.
Dundee Starr is to• have his tonsils out, and the oundee Police pipe band is to have new kilts—to replace those in use since 1906.
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IN SPORT A WRETCHED WEEK, with Mr. Stan CHINS, Wolves, the 548th soccer manager to lose his lob since the war, and with further charges of Purple heart taking against League players. Cassius Clay was stripped of his world title, though he still intends to fight a return with Sonny Liston.ston. Britain's Olympic team was completed, minus Bruce Tulloh and a sprint relay team, and the Australian cricket team slipped 'silently home.
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