Portrait of the week
This was the week in which Prince Charles passed his driving test in a family saloon and Foinavon won the Grand National because he was too far behind the field to fall down with the others at the twenty-third fence. By the time Mr Callaghan plod- ded over the twenty-third fence in his budget speech, nearly all his listeners had also fallen down in a deep sleep.
An emergency debate on Aden got small change from Mr Brown, who said: 'I haven't the smallest intention of telling the House what the present situation is.' Meanwhile Lord Shacideton flew off and the UN mission decided to drop in on Mr Brown after all and put him in the picture. The nation duly voted for its county councils, the Tories came to power in Nottinghamshire after twenty-one years in the wilderness and on the eve of the poll became firm favourites in the °LC elections. Spec- tacular plans by railwaymen to bring all transport to a standstill came to nothing, and even the limb- fitters of Roehampton lacked their usual sparkle in pay negotiations. After weeks of notably ill- informed speculation in the press, Mr H. D. F. Creighton became (subject to the constitutional formalities) the new proprietor of the SPEC-
TATOR.
A battered Hubert Humphrey, pelted with fruit and rotten eggs in Brussels, dogged by failed assas- sins in Berlin, arrived home to a hero's welcome at the White House—nineteen gun salute, brass bands and trumpeters. Negroes rioted for three days in Nashville, Tennessee, and there was heavy firing in Cyprus at the weekend, with one donkey killed and General Grivas reported to have sent in his Fesignation.
Oil from the 'Torrey Canyon' reached the coast of France and millions of young oysters were moved south to cleaner beds. Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision song contest, and Britain made almost a clean sweep of Oscars, with Paul Scofield heading the list as best actor of the year. The pound rose above parity with the dollar for the first time for more than a year, there were heat- waves in Warsaw and Budapest, snow in Madrid and a plague of snakes in Dar-es-Salaam where cobras and green mambas freely roamed the streets.
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