LONDON HAD A DAY without taxis, as the drivers took
a 'co-ordinated rest day' (Newspeak for strike) and traffic flowed more easily. Other cities fared worse—riots and disturbances re- ported from Amsterdam, Chicago, Salisbury (Rhodesia), and Saigon, and Peking still smoul- dering with ideological dissension, and Hong Kong swept by floods. Mr Khrushchev and Mr Molotov emeiged from the shadows to vote in the Soviet elections (their party won, too). Mr Randolph Churchill, in another attack on Lord Moran's book about Sir Winston, disclosed in the Daily Telegraph that Lord Moran was angry at not being made Minister of Health in 1951. There was a revival of Goldwaterism in California. Billy Graham continued his crusade in London. A holy man near Bombay, how- ever, met with a difficulty : when staging a miraculous walk on the water before reporters and photographers, he had the ill-luck to sink to the bottom of his tank.
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