14 JANUARY 1966, page 3

Portrait Of The Week— The Week's News Was Overshadowed By

the sud- den death in Tashkent of the Indian Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Shastri—within hours of signing the de- claration in which he agreed to restore peaceful relations with......

A - R Notoe, A Pitiless Easterly Air Stream Brought All The

trimmings of the British winter—voltage cuts, a nuclear power station out of action, and a pre- dictable statement by Mr. Fred Lee, Power Minis- ter, that the electricity......

Fire Destroyed The Town Ball At Hove, In Sussex, And

there was also a blaze at the Wig and Pen Club—the only building in the Strand to survive the Great Fire of London. Traditionalists who de- plored the age of automation winced......

Make Or Break

O N Monday, in spite of Mr. Brown's most impassioned remonstrances, the price of Hovis bread goes up by a penny a loaf: an appropriately symbolic event to mark the final......

Spectator

Friday January 14 1966......