THE situ( SEASON began earlier, with the headlines filled with
the High Court's decision that the froth on a Guinness is part of the pint, with a Policeman who told a lady rushing to raise the alarm after a Burlington Arcade smash and grab that 'you are not supposed to run in the Arcade,' and with General Franco breaking off shipbuilding negotiations with Britain because Mr. Wilson called him a Fascist. The Young Socialists revealed themselves as a force to be reckoned With, lifting Mrs. Bessie Braddock off the ground during a demonstration, Mr. Heath and Mr. Brown agreed to appear in a TV confrontation on State control, and the Tories issued a pop record entitled 'Songs for Swinging Voters.'
LONDON GREW to eighty miles radius, when new rail fares were announced. The metropolis is to have the first £1,000-a-year busmen. While the balance of payments fell sharply, unemployment also went down. BOAC was rumoured to have asked to cancel orders for British VC-10 jets, and Mr. Amery was similarly rumoured to have vetoed such an idea. An unhappy week for the Police—at least twenty-five cases involving former Detective-Sergeant Challenor were likely to be Considered by a special inquiry, and Lord Shaw- cross claimed that a report on two provincial Police officers after a complaint had been prepared IbY the officers themselves. Mr. Kenneth de Courcy, a former financier sentenced to seven Years' imprisonment, escaped from his Lincoln's Inn solicitors' office, but was soon recaptured, and the Duke of Edinburgh is not to be summoned after his car crash last month.
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THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of Sarajevo, and a quiet week abroad, though the provincial president of North Katanga, Mr. Sendwe, was reported assassinated. At the same time UN troops packed Up their operation, Mr. Tshombe returned, and Mr. Adoula resigned as Premier. General Grivas, recently returned to Cyprus, is likely to become forces' supremo for the island. The Italian Government resigned, the new Indian Premier, Mr. Shastri, suffered a heart attack, Mr. Nkomo's arrest by Southern Rhodesia was declared illegal —though the Government will appeal—and Mr. Kenyatta insisted that a reported description of the English as 'bloodsuckers' was a mistranslation of the Swahili. New York is to ban English secretaries, many towns banned topless swimsuits, but the new fashion was given a qualified approval by West Ham Borough Council. Fifty works by Kandinsky fetched £536,500 at Sotheby's, and Sir Kenneth Clark complained of 'philistines' on official bodies concerned with art.
COMMERCIAL TELEVISION programmes dwindled to a test card during a strike by technicians, the chairman of John Bloom's company resigned, and a Corby shopkeeper was carpeted by his Conservative Club for putting a £2 1 Is. ad. in a Socialist May Day fete magazine. New College, Oxford, voted to go co-educational—a move that Will be vetoed by the women's colleges, and a Methodist minister was expelled for heresy. Stratford-on-Avon was hurt by being compared to a 'commercial slum' by a visiting New Zealand Professor, a Reed Paper Group director was paid £124,000 as a golden handshake, and the average family wage topped £22. In the sporting world kI week without cheer—many US golf stars were reported to have dropped out of the British Open, hut later changed their minds. At Wimbledon Russians, Czechs and Hungarians refused to play against South African players, British representa- tives left in the early rounds, and a lineswoman Who fell asleep seemed surprised that the tourna- Meat had no further need of ber,services.
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