Portrait of the week
Labour relations were not at their best this week. Lord Carroll, president of the- Agy, said there was 'an accelerating development of peace-time fifth column activity in British industry.' On the Mersey 9,164 men were idle, despite Mr Scamp's trouble- shooting tactics; in London Mr Dash made trouble and no one shot him down. The Railway Board at last shi•Wed its teeth; the NUR returned the challenge and told its guards to be up and at 'ern. There was a Pitched battle on the Barbican site Comnitipat shop:steiard toutLewis, said his men were 'broody but unbowed.' Meantime there. was trouble with the motor industry, provincial news- papers, &irporati(in bu'ies and rrv.,11kfr Cousins flew back from America to have a look at the Muddle.
The Tory conference at Brighton opened after a, gruelling Panorama interview of Mr Heath which caused Mr Crossman to accuse the BBC of 'Proving its fairness in politics by exhibiting equal beastliness to both sides.' Mr Marples called for a private-.enterprise telephone ,service, and, the Minis- ter of Health called for a ban on cigarette coupons. Mr Storiehouse, Minister of State for Technology, flew the FillI at supersOnic speed and said it was wonderful. Russia's space-craft Venus 4 also landed safely. France denied Bac reports, that General de Gaulle'si, health. was causing anxiety. Dr Tran Van 113; .outh Vietnam's friteign minister, said that his 'government might call for- a cessation of us bombing next month. Sir Harold Beeley went to CairO to talk to President Nasser. Cuba mourned Chi Guevara, shot in Bolivia, and Castro revealedithat imperialism 'his a fear of Chi even after death.'
London's motor show opened; with the industry bewailing its worst year for over thirty years. The week's price rises included a penny on a cup of British Rail tea and the threat of about 16 per cent more on gas bills. Dr David Kerr, a Labour 7.tP, said he thought all MPS ought to get a rise iri pay plus 'subsidised hostel accommoda- tion.' Children at St• Helen's. Church of. England primary 'school who failed their. eleven-plus were found by an education psychologist to have IQS exceeding 115, and lour boys were expelled from Lancing after a drugs inquiry there.
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