THE SEAMEN, painted red by the Prime Minister (It's an
insult and a shame,' said the secretary of the Communist party), stiffened up their sinews all the more and some said he was 'a stupid little man.' The Kabaka of Buganda returned from the dead after weeks in hiding, and three Arabs were hanged on a public gallows in Damascus. Igor Stravinsky, eighty- five last Sunday, was dangerously ill. The Papal Commission on birth control was considerably embarrassed when large Vatican' holdings appeared to have been disclosed in a firm selling contraceptives. The RSPCA inter- fered with the BBC, who were suspected of plans to use hedgehogs as croquet balls in a produktion of Alice in Wonderland. There was a good deal of sport, at Wimbledon, Lord's (where England were lucky to draw the second Test) and elsewhere. The speedboat champion of the United States disintegrated with his boat at 140 m.p.h. in a race on the Potomac River. Fords beat Ferraris at Le Mans. A Swiss enthusiast was known to be pushing a pram across Europe, hung with cowbells, in time for the World Football Cup.
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