25 MARCH 1966, Page 3

Portrait of the Week

NOMINATIONS CLOSED at a total of 1,707 candi- dates, five of them standing against the Foreign Secretary at Fulham, although a campaign by Motorists' Action to find a second Barbara Castle to stand against the Minister of Trans- port at Blackburn ended in failure. Election bets with Ladbroke's alone passed one million pounds, Mr. James Callaghan announced that he wanted to change the rules of GATT, Mr. Quintin Hogg broke his walking stick taking a swipe at a Labour banner in Putney, and the Prime Minister was hit by a stink bomb at Slough. 'PREMIER IS INJURED IN EYE AT ELEC- TION MEETING' headlined the Mirror sedately.