'Portrait of the Week- lUtE OPENED PARLIAMENT. The Government, her

speech, made promises (or threats) of nigher pensions, tidied-up licensing laws, and a ‘Va harder s and Measures Act that might make it rd for shopkeepers to cheat their customers. Mr. Macmillan mentioned, as an afterthought, w that _ A e had offered Clydeside anchorages for American :an nuclear submarines armed with the Polaris missile. Other bold and far-sighted government proposals included one underground garage Possibly, and at any rate some time hence, t° relieve London's traffic congestion—as if it would. The Loyal Address on the Queen's Speech /.1 m 1de by Mr. Maurice Macmillan, the Prime ,Nlinist:r's son, Presumably as some consolation l. 1101 having been jobbed into office. The trade .111114311 group of the Parliamentary Labour Party, in itselections to office, backed the Gaitskellites, and sacked the Wilsobians.

1"8 ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY said that he inont pay a courtesy call on the Pope next h. This would be the first time an Arch- bishop 139-1: of Canterbury had visited the Pope since as the Church Information Office said, 94°Iing Dr. Fisher's 'Diocesan Notes,' the pace

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"leKening.' Other get-togethers, actual and proposed, included a merger between Pye and C°Ie, giant manufacturers of radio and television sets' ld a bid by

with the new Clore-Cotton property to buy the Moss Empires theatre circuit, _

f.6 million-share interest in ATV, for nearly Ilion. Bank rate went 'down a bit, but precious little else.

* SIR ROBERT TREDGOLD resigned the chiefjustice- 3t. the Rhodesian Federation in protest 48aIllst the Law and Order (Maintenance) Bill kwilieh he said, 'outrages almost every basic

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I .right.' The Governor of Southern Rho- desia did have the decency, though, to ban the Wthiterfascist 'Rhodesian Republican Army.' M. rerha

Abbas, head of the 'Algerian Provisional the nment,' marked the sixth anniversary of

Northoutbreak of the war against France. by talk- union with Tunisia and of a United Arab Africa, while in Paris there were police Caton mrato charges against a hurly-burly of demon- 's for and against a French Algeria. A son Was born to the Shah of Persia, thus relieving hers his anxieties but those of untold num- been af English suburban housewives who had Convinced by the popular papers that it mattered. att.ie.ed. Fourteen hundred United States wa es landed in Cuba for shore leave, which ll)

no doubt, rather provocative. Dr. Castro obils. ised

frig ht his miia, which can hardly have States Marines, but the marines intended went away again, which was what they mended to do from the beginning.

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THE RAINS CAME, and the rains continued. There titeere.rnicre floods still in the West Country and 'lames Valley, and thndysouthernacounties.irt-four ros under wnepnater in

.‘ thirteen eastern o

rts that ten thousand pounds' worth of cigarettes, "les. gin and whisky were stolen from the estab .gave teetotal, non-smoking critics of that

Ishment something to talk about. The Chu

endr :hill and the Chattterley cases came to an both Mr. Churchill and Lady Chatterley were scho held to have been slandered. Roedcan fo 'I Persuaded Brighton Corporation to divert

linath so that it did not skirt the school

build expo ings too closely, the girls having been and ed to hearing rude words from pedestrians wirei:ven to rock-and-roll music from portable Ns receiving apparatuses.