— Portrait of the Week DIE GREAT NON-STOP brinkmanship act starring
Wilson and Smith continued as in the House of Commons the Prime Minister announced on Mon- day the plan for a Royal Commission, and on Wednesday its failure to get off the ground. It was stated by both countries, that the two gov- ernments were as far apart as ever. The door which was said to be still open was once again swinging shut.
MEANWHILE, in New York City John Lindsay became the liberal Republican mayor, beating both the Democratic machine candidate and the en/ant terrible of American conservatism William F. Buckley Jr., who had hoped to defeat the pinko Lindsay by splitting the Republican vote. France and Russia reached agreement on space co-operation, a Quaker committed ritual suicide by igniting himself on the steps of the Pentagon, and a ranking dragon of the New York Klan, un- masked as a Jew, also killed himself. Mr. Levi Eshkol's Mapai party won the Israeli elections easily, soundly trouncing the renegade Ben-Gurion.
*
GALE-FORCE WINDS demolished three huge cooling towers in Yorkshire, while the British gold reserves stood at the highest level since May, 1963. In central Java and the Celebes civil war broke out between the Indonesian army and the Com- munists, and the British security authorities in Aden swooped on a group of pro-Egyptian poli- ticians. Queen Salote of Tonga was made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, while nine members of Banbury borough council renewed' their opposition to proposals to demolish Banbury Cross. A porpoise, Phocaena phocaena, was found out of water in the men's room of Glasgow Central Station.
*
LADY DOUGLAS-HOME wrote to The Times that the Liberal candidate for the City of London and Westminster had sent his by-election communica- tion to her at 10 Downing Street. In the Liberal enclave of Smith Square, at any rate, the age of Home was still with us. In Vietnam, US troops from the 1st Cavalry Division smashed a fresh Vietcong assault in the central highlands, and Dr. Castro came out with the bad news for Western intelligence agencies that `Che' Guevara is alive and well, news which was later confirmed by Guevara's father. Denis Law will, not play for Scotland in the match against Italy at Hamp- den Park next Tuesday, Jean Shrimpton caused uproar at a Melbourne race-meeting when she turned up in a three-guinea home-made shift, and the firm of Babycham lost its libel action against Mr._Raymond Postgate.
Previous page
