Portrait of the Week- 1 ,11TsuN CAME AND WENT, and rather
fewer motorists and pedestrians went than had been the re at Easter. Headlines saying 'Atlas bases hit Y strike' turned out to be less ominous than they ElOked, but not for long. The entire Parliamen- y Socialist Party in Japan resigned, and Presi- entEisenhower, possibly in sympathy, cancelled e 'game of golf he was to have played with Kishl on his forthcoming visit to the land the Rising Sun. The sun set on Broadway, as tres were closed by a strike, or (some say) lockout. Mr. Khrushchev continued to be rude 'President Eisenhower, the Trades Union Con- rs sug gested that anagements were on the to blame for smtrikes, and the Minister of ueucation claimed that political guidance of Ienoolchildren by headmasters was entirely Proper.
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A '0p JRI, SHARP Hr AT-WA YE brought motorists out in their expected millions over the Whitsun holiday. All observers were agreed that the stan- dard only (some courtesy was higher than usual, and killed. (some say 'only') fifty or so people were killed. The temporary open-road speed limits of '111)' miles an hour may have helped to this °end, and there was talk of making them permanent. l el'ore the holiday was over; it was raining.
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MR KHRUSHCHEV continued to abuse President Eisenhower, and President Eisenhower spoke up against the 'enemies of dignity.' In Japan. many 411uusands of citizens indicated their strong dis- approval of their own govetnment, its proposed defence treaty with the United States, and Presi- ruenhet Eisenhower's imminent visit, in that order. Opposition resigned in a body, hoping to force a General Election, and a few more skulls were cracked, Trouble similarly stemming from the reluctance of some people to do what other People wanted them to was reported from South Africa, where tear gas was used against demon- strating Africans, and the Labour Party, where tear gas was not (some say. not yet) used against wtr. Cousins.
TECHNICIANS at four Atlas missile bases in the United States went on strike for such pre-nuclear things as higher pay; actors on Broadway were already on strike for pensions. News from New Jersey seemed to indicate at one point that both higher pay and pensions would shortly be super- erogatory, when something went wrong with an atomic warhead. Some swift work by local fire- fighters, and some even swifter work by national soothers, contained the damage, not to mention the awkward questions.
* • THE MYSTERY of Adolf Eichmann's arrest and transfer to Israel both deepened and lifted. It Was established that he was found in the Argen- tine, but whether he was kidnapped with Argentine connivance, and if so to what extent and how, became even less clear.
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THE CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY decided by a substantial majority not to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, M15 agents were said to have been inquiring into the political attitudes of certain schoolboys, more let aircraft were given permission to fly into and out of London Airport at night, the New China News Agency announced that the three Chinese mountaineers who scaled Mount Everest had Placed an eight-inch effigy of Mao Tse-tung on the summit (which no doubt led many persons to reflect that if a full-size effigy of Mao Tse-tung had been placed on the other Summit 'it might not have collapsed in disorder), and Mr. Tommy Manville learnt that he may not have been legally married to his ninth wife, news received with mixed feelings by his tenth and eleventh.
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