12 JANUARY 1968, page 9

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CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN Some years after graduation, a young Ameri- can husband and father wrote to his former principal in terms of polite but forceful reproach. '1......

Pet Aversions

MEDICINE JOHN ROWAN WILSON • Almost every animal species has its own indi- vidual pattern of disease. Cats and dogs don't catch colds and human beings run no danger from......

Chess No. 369

PHILIDOR C. Goldschmeding (1st prize, Holland, 1944-5). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 368 (Wimsatt): R - Q 1, threat B x P. 1 . R -Q B......