5 JANUARY 1968, page 27

2. Devalued Hols

LESLIE ADRIAN Back in the summer, travel agents were told to plan on the assumption that the basic' holi- day allowance for the year November l967- October 1968 would again be......

No. 482: Octet

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem, on any one of the subjects given below, using the follow- ing four pairs of words as......

No. 479: The Winners

There are always one or two of the given words that separate the sheep from the goats. This week it was geranium-pots, with teens a close second. W. H. Thomson's parody of......