FOUR BRITISH DELEGATES flew from London to resume talks with
Rhodesian officials in Salis- bury. and the negotiations to settle relations between Indonesia and Malaysia seemed all harmony and light. President Johnson said that, for America in Vietnam, 'there is no going back'; a series of suicides by petrol flames con- tinued to express Buddhist protests against the South Vietnamese military government. Mr Khrushchev was 'fit and happy' in retirement, his wife told some British journalists in Moscow, and Dr Billy Graham opened his crusade to save the souls of Londoners. Charlie Griffith, the West Indian bowler, was no-balled- for 'throwing' at Manchester—the news-making event of the cricket year—and no one in the press box even noticed what had happened. A blackbird nested in the tiger's cage at the London Zoo, Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500-mile motor race after a six- teen-car crash had interrupted the event, and in his inaugural lecture Oxford's new professor of poetry, Edmund Blunden, commended 'reverence and diligence' to poets. June, said the long-range forecasters, was going to be unusually sunny and warm.
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