----Portrait ol the Week— . THE DULLEST EASTER HOLIDAY of the
century' was the Met. Office's verdict, but some resorts had their liveliest Easter for years. Mods and rockers descended on Clacton, one hundred arrests fol- lowed, and headlines reported: 'Motor-cycle mobs retreat before police onslaught' Meanwhile, 3,000 soccer supporters swarmed through Ostend, leaving chaos as a memory of a British excursion. Mr. Brooke introduced measures to cut down the traffic in purple hearts. Red-blooded Young Socialists. in conference al. Brighton promised 'full support' for the power-workers' overtime ban, just one day before the unions called it off. The threatened power cuts never materialised.
AN EASTER OF PROTEST: Tory back-benchers came within one vote of causing havoc to Mr. Heath's r.p.m. measure, while Mr. Yates, MP, insisted that it was 'offensive, unparliamentary and untrue' for Mr. Sydney Silverman, MP, to suggest in the Commons that Tories had only ever won general elections by fraud. CND's protest produced 300 arrests at Ruislip, and a Russian Orthodox Arch- bishop graced Trafalgar Square's rally. High court judges and university dons were promised rises: Easter meetings of doctors, teachers, rail- vvaynien, and civil servants demanded rises. The protest at the blotting out of St. Paul's petered away, Sir Gerald Nabarro decided to retire from Parliament, and the Prime Minister's daughter was married.
BRITAIN'S SECOND SATELLITE was launched in the US, with American equipment and American tracking. Meanwhile the UN Cyprus force was launched, with less US participation. Mr. U Thant revealed that Mr. Sakari Tuomioja would be UN mediator, and Greek Cypriots fired on British soldiers, under the belief that they were 'Turkish terrorists.' Asserting its independence, Zanzibar sacked all British civil servants, except for medical staff and officers on two government steamers. Soviet patience With China in its war.of words came near breaking-point when the Chinese yet again attacked the 'revisionist quagmire' of 'this would-be Trotsky.' Mr. Khrushchev's son-in-law spoke out in protest and Mr. Khrushchev went to Hungary. Alaska suffered a massive earth- quake, and appealed for Washington aid, but President Sukarno of Indonesia publicly chal- lenged his US envoy to 'go to hell with your aid.'
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SAUDI ARABIA DECIDED it had had enough of King Saud: power has passed to Prince Feisal, and Saud was expected to move into the 300 rooms booked for him in a Greek resort. John Glenn the spaceman found that his US Senate hopes had come to nothing, and Spain found that the Com- mon Market could not decide whether or not to °Peri negotiations. Senator Fulbright enraged US right-wingers by denouncing the Cuba boycott as a failure, the NATO mixed-manned ship will have prayer-mats but no rum on board, and France thaY ban those suffering from serious inferiority complexes from holding driving licences. In ,,lirazil, parts of the army revolted to sweep Communism out of the country.
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STATELY HOMES REPORTED the worst possible business over the Easter weekend, but road deaths were down considerably. With a fortnight to the Budget, the Government found itself £200 million better off than it had estimated, and the uk nowhas five more millionaires than last Yea ry with the club now totalling ninety-two mem- bers.
Cambridge ambled home in the Boat Race,
moat of the Great Train Robbery suspects were found guilty, and the National Hairdressers' F_ederation urged that hairdressers should charge
double for cutting men's hair of six weeks' growth.
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