PRESIDENT NASSER entertained . Mr Kosygin lavishly in Egypt, but Mr
Brezhnev was less kindly treated in Rumania, which alone of all Communist countries failed to celebrate the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact on Monday. Talks on Gibraltar started in London, Sir Alan Herbert drafted a new Law of Piracy Bill, and Lady Megan Lloyd George died. 'We don't want a school of plumbing here,' declared Pro., lessor Trevor-Roper in Oxford, and a niember of the Franks Commission said: 'You realise we have no powers over All Souls. If it comes to the crunch they can always declare UDI.' A farmer and his wife were found murdered in Rhodesia. apparently by terrorists. A certain Mr Malcolm Ross of Birmingham, having demolished Silhill Hall, one of the loveliett half-timbered houses in the country, 'mature at the time of Agincourt and old in Shakes- peare's time,' was fined the scandalously trivial sum of £100, which is the maximum the law allows. A tightrope walker named Henry came down after spending eight days on a rope in France. Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery won his bet with the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, that Everton would win the FA cup, and the Coun- cil of Churches declared against gambling. Randolph Turpin died and Cassius Clay pre- pared himself for the big fight : 'If Allah wills 1 shall be successful as usual.' he said
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