Portrait of the Week
INTERCONTINENTAL TELSTARVIS1ON began on Monday : reciprocal eighteen-minute pro- grammes were bounced between Europe and America. They saw Big Ben, the Arc de Triomphe and Richard Dimbleby. We saw baseball, Presi- dent Kennedy and a cooked tour of America. Net week : live Westerns. Also high in the sky Russia threatened to resume tests, an Egyptian rocket travelled 375 miles. and an American Venus probe failed. Other rockets were directed at local Tory organisations by party chairman lain Macleod, who complained that 'some people who were admirable leaders a few years ago have lost their zest': and at the 'harsh treatment' of Selwyn Lloyd, defended by Lord Avon. Neddy, the eco- nomic planning board, castigated Mr. Hare, the Minister of Labour, for reading a `too unspeci- fic' paper, and suggested he might prepare a better one. Dr. Beeching issued his passenger map of the railways, as a preparation for severe prun- ing, just as the first regular Hovercraft service began between Rhyl and Wallasey.
A CHAPEL IN Buckingham Palace was opened as an art gallery : meanwhile the Leonardo appeal iliared its deadline, £400,000 short. The Royal Academy is to allow the Government till August IS to decide whether to buy it for the nation.
IN BRUSSELS, negotiations with the.Common Mar- ket edged nearer the moment of decision : after talks till 3.30 a.m. on Saturday Mr. Heath secured the promise of annual reviews for farm prices. In Geneva, after fourteen months' anguish, Laos received a guarantee of neutrality: the confer- ence table may well next be used to do the same for Algeria, where the political situation is slowly disintegrating. Rivalry and suspicion between Mr. Ben Bella and Mr. Ben Khedda continued; but the signs were that Mr. Ben Bella was win- ning. General Norstad, Supreme Allied Comman- der in Europe, resigned or retired, and was succeeded by General Lemnitzer, who is sixty- three : this is regarded as an interim appointment. In Saskatchewan doctors ended their twenty- three-day strike, while at home doctors rejected the £1-million merit scheme proposed two years ago• The International Court of Justice tried to help the UN cut its £50 million overdraft from the Congo campaign by authorising the collection of contributions from all members.
SKETCHES satirising President Kennedy have been removed from The Premise, an Ameri- can revue opening this week. Kennedy wired that he did not object to their inclusion : the Lord Chamberlain ,decided to object for him. Sketches involving Khrushchev, Castro and God remain in the show. Ted Dexter, of Sussex, will captain the MCC tour of Australia. The Duke of Norfolk. with A. V. Bedser in attendance, will be manager. The Rev. David Sheppard will probably tour as Moral tutor. For the second time this month, the by of Trafalgar Square Sunday was disturbed nY running fights between police and spectators, • while fascists on the platform hardly had a look-in.
13BDTRED HOME BUT REPRIEVED was Miss Carmen Bryan, imprisoned in Holloway for five weeks after a conditional discharge for shoplifting. Ordered home also was Miss Elizabeth Cleopatra Taylor, refused entry to Egypt. Thirty thousand more travel in the London rush hour than a year ago : now nearly If million risk
"'Easton daily. G. M. Trevelyan died; Sir
"'Easton Churchill progressed well; Lord Mont- gomery went into hospital, Princess Alexandra cline out. And the sun shone from Sunday to Tuesday inclusive. Is this a record?
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