24 JANUARY 1970, page 26

Chess 475

PHILIDOR Prof. J. Haluinbirek (1st Prize, Sehachblinter, 1963). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 474 (Benedek: 16/4p3/4P1B1/......

Travel '70: A Special Survey A Venetian Diary

SIMON RAVEN A bad start. One of our party had a passport photograph which was taken ten years ago, and the passport official at Venice airport opined that it no longer bore a......

Crossword 1414

Across I Sound standard (7, 5) 9 Literary careerist (9) 10 'Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit The of beauty I remember yet' (Dryden) (5) 11 Instruction superfluous to......