Portrait of the Week— MISS CHRISTINE KEELER'S WEEK, beyond doubt:
with one ex-boy friend serving seven years for Shooting at her, a second was sentenced to three Years for assault: a third went into hiding, his career shattered and his party's morale shaken : a fourth was remanded for living off immoral earnings with 'more serious charges to come : and a fifth, a Russian diplomat. may be the centre Of a Commons debate next week. Five down, and how many to play'?
THOUGH MISS KEELER HOGGED the headlines, the world rumbled on. A pre-summit meeting is to be held in Moscow in July to discuss a nuclear test ban. with Lord Hailsham as British represen- tative. The by-election season begins next week. with Mr. Gaitskell's South Leeds seat the first Popularity test for the parties. Politicians went on their travels again: Mr. Amcry on a grand tour of Moscow, Leningrad and Paris; Mr. Macleod visited Washington, and had to sprint back to London; Mr. Wilson, who fancies he is cantering home, saw Mr. Khrushchev in Moscow and they shared caustic jokes at the in- dependent deterrent. Admiral Ricketts headed back to Washington, President Kennedy is to fit London into his European visit in a fortnight, the cardinals trickled to Rome for the funeral of Pope John XXIII and the election of one of themselves, and Mr. Karamardis, the Greek Prime Minister, resigned because the Greek royal family insists on visiting Britain A STORMY WEEK ABROAD Of martial law in Teheran, of a public execution in the Congo, and of the breakdown of the Iraqi-Kurdish truce. A poor week for lederations: talk of an East Africa Federation was stalled by reluctance to name Kenya's independence day; Mr. Butler's similar reluctance to give Southern Rhodesia the So-ahead could torpedo this month's Central Africa conference. The Malaysian federation seemed slightly better off, in that its main oppon- ents withdrew their resistance to the scheme. An embarrassing week for President Kennedy, With State troops at the ready for violence in Alabama University when two negroes were for- cibly admitted to the student roll. The diehards Were led by Brigadier-General Graham, wearing the 'stars and bars' shoulder flash of the 'Dixie' Division, the insignia of the Confederacy in the Civil War. On the first day human rights and common sense won, just. But on Wednesday a Negro leader was shot dead in Mississippi. There Were also less gloomy items of news : Dr. Castro told the Cuban people he thought Russia a Paradise, which must have done wonders to Mr. Khrushchev's morale considering recent Chinese taunts of him as 'that bald-headed donkey.'
THE FIRST ALL-BRITISII SATELLITE was announced, be fired in 1966 from an American rocket, and the first Test Match was lost badly. There London the sharpest fall since Cuba on the London Stock Exchange. Also this week occurred an Outbreak of typhoid in Harlow, and a rash f bomb scares at London Airport—among "olects suspected of being bombs were a bottle of scent and an alarm clock.
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aos, the band-leader, hinted that he .would like to become a Conservative candidate: e's a gap at Luton left by Dr. Charles r s tie peerage. Other birthday honours went .0 Coco the Clown, Harry Secombe and Miss f °ran Hammond. The Earl of Buckinghamshire tired of graceful living, and decided to return to his old job as corporation gardener. Miss Caroline With jaundice discovered that while she was down jaundice her part in the film The Chalk a"tcircieri had been written out of the script, which .east spares her the embarrassment of Liz Opo4ri_or whose multi-decked epic Cleopatra ned to York, the slightest whimper of praise in u4 w
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