PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Three astronauts were launched from Cape Kennedy in an attempt to approach within 50,000 feet of the moon in dress rehearsal for a landing on the moon's surface later this year. Mr Richard Crossman's proposals for raising f.430 million to pay for his old age pension in- creases in November were thrown out by a meeting of the whole Cabinet. Having told the House of !Commons that his new teeth and spectacle charges would prevent cuts in accom- =modation for the mentally subnormal, he told the Parliamentary Labour Party that they would prevent cuts in comprehensive school building. Then he told Parliament that he had said no such thing, but Mr Houghton said he had. Mr Crossman was in the doghouse. Mr Wilson made his great television -comeback and was funnier than ever. • - Mr Ian Smith, self-styled Prime Minister of Rhodesia, appeared to have closed the doors finally on any compromise with Britain when he announced a national referendum for 20 Stine to decide on the creation of a Rhodesian republic. Mr Wilson said : `If he meanste wants to go to the bitter end, so be it.' Mr Wilson was presented with a ceremonial gavel by the Guild of Professional Toastmasters as the best after- dinner speaker of the year. Riots occurred or continued in Malaysia, the Hague, Berkeley, California, and Newark, .tu. Strikes broke out in Australia, and the Italian cabinet began to crack up again. Herr Franz-Josef Strauss visited London and urged Mr Wilson to make a fresh approach to the Common Market. Mr Main Poher, the interim President of France, con- tinued to lead M Pompidou in opinion poll judgments of the second ballot in the French presidential elections. It seemed likely that he 'would reverse General de ,Gaulle's policy in the Middle East. A report on The Foreign and Com- monwealth Office was rumoured to recommend that ambassadors should adapt their role.to that of export salesmen.
The seven-man executive of the engineering union rejected the 'roc's alternative to Mrs -Castle's penal provisions in her Industrial Rela- tions Bill on the instigation of its senior execu- tive member, right-wing Mr John Boyd, and against the advice of Mr Hugh Scanlon, its left- wing president. Judge Abe Fortas resigned from the United States Supreme Court, amid rumours of an impending impeachment. Reginald Kray and Frederick Foreman were found not guilty of murdering the `Mad Axeman' Frank Mitchell.
A High Court judge declined to send two LSE students to jail for contempt of court. Bertrand Russell celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday. 'Protestant extremists halted the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in protest against the presence of a Roman Catho- lic observer.
Britain's third heart transplant patient re- ceived the heart of a nurse, gravely injured in an accident on her scooter. An attempt to jail the editor and proprietors of the Evening Stan- dard for contempt of court following an article by Sam White was 'decisively' rejected. So was a Bill before the House of Commons to reform the libel laws. The editor of the Daily Mirror declared that nobody except Clive Jenkins could write a Clive Jenkins column.
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