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At the University of Guarda in Portugal, students lay a path of black cloaks for President Americo Tomas of Portugal on his arrival for a visit. The black cloak treatment is the Portuguese equivalent of putting out the red carpet (an article on Portugal is overleaf)

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a jflPlH Br 'JK> Sir Winston Churchill leaves his London home with Lord Ismay to drive to the House of Commons. When Parliament reassembled last week M.P.s were dis cussing among themselves what special privileges the Commons could bestow on Sir Winston when he gives up his seat

Dr Kenneth Kaunda, the Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia, receives a jubilant welcome by freedom-shirted Africans on his return to Lusaka, the capital, from the London Conference at which agreement was reached on Northern Rhodesia's independence. On October 24 United Nations D