Portrait of the Week'
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MR. KENNETH TYNAN solemnly used that word from Lady Chatterley on BBC television, and later declared himself unrepentant although many a cry of protest was heard. Labour's victor in the Erith by-election took his seat, as psephologists helpfully calculated that the same voting pattern Would cost Labour the seat in the pending by- election at Hull. Kempton Bunton, who took that Goya from the National Gallery, was sent to prison for three months, the Scotsman's issue last Tuesday bore the date Wednesday, Novem- ber 17, a new Russian sputnik—Venus 3—was launched four days after Venus 2, the MCC beat South Australia by six wickets, and, in a week of dire traffic jams elsewhere, Craig Breedlove re- gained the world land speed record-by travelling at 600.6 miles an hour. WINTER AND ITS DISCONTENTs descended suddenly, and inconsiderately early, upon Britain. In the coldest November weather for a century or more, electricity and gat supplies failed up and down the country, transport shivered into chaos, fac- tories had to close down and wait for the tem- perature to rise, and MPs questioning the Minister of Power were visited with ghastly memories of 1947 and all that. After hearing of the damage wrought once again by the British climate, the Commons went on with unplanned irony to de- bate Mr. Cousins's. progress in advancing the technological revolution, learning principally from him that Dr. Beeching had been 'sacked' from his job as railway moderniser. This week the only major steel company in state hands announced redundancies and short-time working (blaming not the weather but falling ,export orders), a bread strike threatened supplies in many places, teachers in Birmingham were bent on strike action, and the Confederation of British Industry proposed a tougher set of laws to restrain militant Workers.
THE SITUATION IN RHODESIA was confused and un- happy; newspapers there appeared with large, white spaces indicating the censors' work, other restrictions on freedom were reported, the Gover- nor made things awkward or Mr. Smith by stick- ing to his post, sanctions began to .show results as whisky prices rose sharply in Salisbury, and Mr. Michael Stewart prolonged hiN slay in New York to cope with United National Indignation. There was a big battle in Vietnam, the quarrel between Russia and China flared up again in Public, and Mr. Shastri said India would sever accept mediation on Kashmir. .In Landon, the Soviet ambassador protested at the Foreign Office against the publication of The Penkovsky Papers as being 'in the worst tradition of the cold war.'
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