Portrait of the week
There was a lot of action down on the Scilly Isles, what with a royal visit, the Prime Minister arriving on holiday, and several Cabinet ministers in the offirxg: no wonder Mrs Wilson was reported to be stirred into writing another of her poems. Lon- don, meanwhile, filled up with foreign tourists and The holiday mood affected even political demonstra- tions—that of the anti-noise campaigners, for example, who trooped towards Downing Street to bunt balloons outside No 10 by way of protest against sonic booms.
Following last week's Aberfan report, Lord lobens offered his resignation as chairman of the Coat Board, but was told to wait. The Prices and Incomes Board accused the motor trade of putting up its prices far too much and of not being efficient enough, and the Commons Estimates Committee olsplored Britain's efforts in space. Court Lees ap- proved school, in Surrey, was ordered to close because of 'excessive severity' in punishment.
In America, the Black Power leader Mr Rap Brown said that recent race riots had been 'just dtess rehearsals for revolution.' Peking radio re- ported that anti-Mao forces had tried to gain control of China's air force, and South Vietnam's head of state, Lieutenant-General Van Thieu, said that if he won in next month's elections be would ask Hanoi for peace talks.
In Wales. the opening of the National Eisteddfod was marred by low-flying jets, which aroused much Welsh ire. Local fervour was manifested in the Isle of Man, too, where separatist sentiments led to a strongly anti-Westminster resolution passing through the House of Keys. It was reported that T. E. Lawrence and G. B. Shaw were the best- sellers on postcards at the National Portrait Gal- lery: because of doubts about the validity of claims made on their behalf, however, the names of John Logic Baird and Sir Frank Whittle were removed from a set of commemorative stamps now being prepared. The first three women to be appointed ushers at the Law Courts were named. And poli- tically, the liveliest remark came from Mr William Yates, who had been invited to resign as .Tory c4ndidate for The Wrekin after a quarrel over the Arab-Israeli conflict. 'You can,' he told hie , ,
committee, 'sack me and be damned.'
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