Portrait of the week
Chinese diplomats ran berserk in Portland Place, attacking police and bystanders outside their ?nation with iron bars, axes, broomsticks' and a gun The crowd retaliated with flower pots and 'hale Britannia.' Chinese complaints were rejected by perplexed officials at the Foreign Office while, in-Peking, the British Charge d'Affaires was further maltreated. Mr Brown invited the ChineseG.overn- anent to talk the situation over man to man, lesser doings in Lopdon were somewhat over- shadowed, but Mr Wilson finally screwed his courage to the sticking place and made a few desultory', changes in his Cabinet, sacking Mr Doug- las Jay, who was not pleased, sending Mr Herbert Bow&n to the rra, which pleased no one, and him- self assuming power at the DEA. Wilting business- men revived at the prospect of a little gingerly ex- WHISiOn : HP terms were relaxed again. In the Isle of Wight an angler died in struggles with a giant conger eel. Mr Callaghan and his colleagues from Europe, North America and Japan decided to do something about the world's money supply. But nobody quite knew what.
• While rumours thickened in Cairo of a plot to un- seat President Nasser, Nasser himself was off to the Arab summit meeting in Khartoum, where Syria promptly staged a walk-out. The South Arabian army declined an offer to take over the running of the Aden Federation. In Hong Kong, police tired on an enraged mob, killing one. while an- other died from burns inflicted by terrorists last week. Savage bombing continued in Vietnam and- Shirley Temple decided to stand for Congress against the Great Society-- 'a poor movie in the first place, and now a great flop.' The Duke -of- Bedford's love-in passed off sedately and without disturbance. though publicans in Woburn refused to serve customers with flowers in their hair.
Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, died at thirty-two and Charles Darrow, the inventor of Monopoly, also a millionaire, also died. Roads were freer and Bank Holiday casualties fewer than usual. causing surprise and some foreboding from the pundits; Colin Cowdrey was chosen as captain of the MCC cricket team to tour the West Indies, in- stead of the shamed and censured Close; and houses' in Salford were cut off by a stream of molten wax flowing down the main street from a blazing candle factory.
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