Eastern Sun, 8 August 1970

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    20 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's pNfiifftal daily 10 cents tstd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1416 Saturday, August 8, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon SHIFTS IN CABINET ARE EXPECTED SOON
    258 1 Dr. Goh t take over Defence rpHE Ministry off Interior ond Defence is to be split into seporote portfolios, highly relioble Government sources said yesterday. An announcement of this and the appointment of Mr. Hon Sui Sen, MP for Havelock, as a Cabinet minister,
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    Lock icon BOMB BOY IS ON THE RUN
    94 1 lEW AI HU named yesterday by bus bomb girl Leong Lai Yeng as her accomplice In the firebomblngs of STC buses on Aug. I, is on the run. Police have mounted an island wide search for the suspected terrorist. Last known address of the
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    Lock icon PSA warned about rental charges
    266 1 ALARMED traders yesterday warned that the proposed increase in warehouse rental charges by the Port of Singapore Authority would impede the entrepot trade and harm Singapore's economy. Representatives of CO trade associations affiliated to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce made a strong plea to the
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    47 1 The Eastern gfan will observe ihe National Day holiday tomorrow and so there will be no morning o r evening edition on Monday. We resume i>ublicfttion Tuesday morning. The late «»nd final editions of the Sun will appear as usual ir s evening and tomorrow morning.
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    Lock icon MID tells about soldier's death, quiet burial
    394 2 Even Army authorities were unaware of TWE Ministry of Interior and Defence yesterday officially explained the death and "hush hush" burial of a national serviceman. Private Seah Yik Yeo, 20, was buried in an unmarked grave on July 6, a day after his
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    Lock icon Tax liability case: Appeal dismissed
    151 2 THE High Court yesterday dismissed with costs an appeal by a development Arm against a tax liability assessment of $522,116 resulting from the liquidation of a subsidiary. The sum was assessed by the income Tax Board Review when Stamford Park Ltd.. a subsidiary of Town
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    Lock icon A year's jail for $10 graft
    138 2 FORMER police constable Hazran bin Abdul Rahman, 25. was convicted and sentenced to a year's Jail for taking a bribe of $lO, from a shop-assist ant. near Woodlands Check-point. He was alleged to have taken the money as an inducement for not reporting the
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    Lock icon 19 Indons jailed
    28 2 The Nlneth Magistrate's Court yesterday sentenced 19 Indonesian Immigrants for a month's Jail for Illegal entry on Thursday. They admitted coming here on a sampan.
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    Lock icon Court told of hubby's cruelty
    103 2 DANCE-HOSTESS Margaret Wong Mel Ling, 29, of Henderson Crescent, was granted a divorce from ex-pollce officer David Pattlselanno on grounds of cruelty. A doctor testified that he examined the petitioner three years ago and found injuries all over her oody. '1 was a widow before
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    Lock icon Razak raps teachers
    77 2 KUANTAN. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, yesterday described Malaysian teachers who prefer to work in foreign countries as people who did not honour their status as Malaysian citizens. Tun Razak. who arrived here .-esterday for a three-da v visit to Pahang, w as commenting on
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    Lock icon National Day with a difference
    134 2 VENNA ALKAFF, the pretty young manageress of Le Bijou, Is always dreaming up new ideas her latest is dressing up her boutique windows for the National Day celebrations. Almost everybody 1s doing decorations the usual way lanterns. bunting, light*, banners. But Venn* went one step
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    Lock icon Conditional discharge in arms case
    263 2 THE managing director of Securitas (Pte.) Ltd., was yesterday given a 12month conditional discharge after he admitted possessing arms and ammunition, without licence. The Fourth District Judge, Mr. Dallp Singh, granted the discharge to Paul Robert Llnfleld Wilson, 49, charged with the offence on July
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    Lock icon THE DAY A MISTRESS MET THE WIFE
    135 3 In the High Court yesterday, stenographer Julie Tan Joo Lung, 27, was granted a decree nisi dissolving her marriage to salesman Loh Tee Tee, 28. In the uncontested suit, she told the Court, "I did not know my husband was carrying on an
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    Lock icon Woman falls to death
    57 3 Miss Leong Ah Man, 22, a factory hand in Jurong fell to her death from the 10th floor of a flat, yesterday. Leong of Block 61, Taman Jurong was found in a pool of blood near Block .il. Police recovered a pair of slippers from the
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    Lock icon ORDEAL OF A YEAR'S MARRIAGE FOR VIRGIN
    398 3 A YOUNG housewife yesterday told the High Court that she is still a virgin after more than o year's married life. The woman, 23, disclosed her husband, a company executive, had wilfully refused to consummate their marriage. She successfully petitioned for a divorce.
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    Lock icon Purse snatched
    26 3 Miss Jean Smith, 19, of WRAC, Tanglin, had her purse containing $6O snatched yesterday at Holland Village. Her purse was taken from a basket
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    Lock icon THAILAND WORRIED: Red goods smuggling from 'Singapore base'
    278 3 Thailand has charfed that Singapore is being used as a base by an international syndicate for smuggling black-listed communist goods Into her territory. The communist goods are mainly foodstuffs for Thailand's three million Chinese. The syndicate is believed to have set up
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    Lock icon Housewife robbed in her flat
    132 3 A housewife and her 10-year-old son were tied-up by two robbers and robbed of $l4 in eash and articles worth $350 yesterday. Mrs. Lim Oot, 46, of Toa Payoh was cooking in her kitchen when the robbers entered her bouse. One of them pointed a
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      181 3 TITO sanu49 NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL DRAW 30th july to 20th September, 1970 W/AT 2.228 ATTRACTIVE GIFT PRIZES Pio_ _oJ lit PrUe MERCEDES Bonk 200 (based on the last digits) trd Prize The- airline for Asia. CATHAY A Double Return Air Tickets to Japan plus $2,000 pocket expense* (baaed on tha
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    Lock icon Wilson awards knighthood to his raincoat-maker
    221 6 LONDON. The Matt who made former Laboar MM Mißhtw Wilson's raincoat* has been awarded a knighthood by hb famous customer. Joseph Kagaa la the invent sr and msnafactnrer sf the distinctive G annex ratnooat. Alone wtth pipe smoking, the garment became part of the
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    Lock icon Congo diplomat expelled in drug scandal
    195 6 SYDNEY A CMpiese diplomat left Sydney yesterday for Lnl>« after being expelled from Australia far bringing hashish Into the eonntry. The diplomat sought and was granted diplomatic immunity alter Thursday's seizure by drug squad ietectives of 40 pounds of hashish. The Congolese diplomat is
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon BIGGEST US. HOUSING DISCRIMINATION CASE
      473 6 WASHINGTON The U.S. Government probably filed the largest 'Housing Discrimination Case* in its history with s suit against an estate management firm. The latter controls with York buildings with 21,000 apartments. The Justice Department suit claimed that the defendants consistently followed practices designed to channel
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    Lock icon COMING TO A HEAD
    66 6 A VIKTCONG SUSPECT to iatempM by U.S. Marines near P>wy, 8o«th Vietnam with a cocked .46 calibre afaM and an M-lt rifle pointed at hit head. The communists of course have a better way mi satisfying their sasnlelons. They simply massacre their suspects, rntiy soldiers and
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    Lock icon Jackal's bid to carry off baby
    91 6 KABUL, Afghanistan Parents of a wren-month-old girl, alarmed by her cries, rushed to find her being carried off by a jackal from her mother's bedroom. The animal had entered the house and lifted her from the cradle wrapped in a shroud. It VM «linHn|
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    Lock icon NEED FOR VIGILANCE
    592 8 fpHE confession of Barisan Sosialis Party executive committee member, Leong Lai Yeng, of how and why she placed a firebomb In a bus and gutted it, is simultaneously pathetic and frightening. It is pathetic because it reveals how a 30-year-old girl can be so completely misguided, and
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    Lock icon INFLATION ALERT
    582 8  -  By Art Buchwald, THE Nixon Administration will announce the first in o series of "inflation alerts" this month. No one knows exactly what an "inflation alert" is, though it seems to be a way of alerting the American people as to what products are going up in price
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    Lock icon Hard-boiled egg caper
    215 8  -  By Don Oakley, Washington. SCIENCE has done It again. The old question of how long it takes to hard boll an egg atop Pike's Peak has been solved. A controversy has been, er, simmering since at least 1955 when the author of a physical chemistry textbook devised
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      45 8 Poretra MWI nd features appearing hi all editions of tbe Buicra Hon and The »uo are iteliters. OaltM rwM International. I|f BCC Prance Presse editors Press syndicate Nfws> etaiion publishers Hall 8 indicate Lo* Anaeiea Time* Syndicate. Oemini Neva Service. Nortb American Newapaper Alliance. Pint
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      81 8 '--And the More Cars We Build, the More Roads* We Build, and the More Roads We Build, the More Cars We Build!"-- JKs 1 \ftsr, *9P* «v» ItuTP" JC 3 9 "it'' «*l 4 SI T^v <> 3* TAW> ■■■> CI T 3 ■>&< i* a> > J 7 iK
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      23 9 Depart Singapore Tor Colombo in big Boeing 707 fanjet comfort at 8.30 pm.Every Wednesday via Kuala Lumpur.every Sunday non-stop. See your Travel Agent.
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon A TAN-LOH TUSSLE IN MASTERS BOWLING
      353 11 A DING-DONG bottle is in the making with the Masters event of the 2nd International Bowling championships to be played today ot Jackies Bowl, Orchard. The highlight of the contest is expected to be between Henry Tan who heads the Masters qualifiers with a
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      Lock icon Poh Wah in T-T final
      133 11 IPCH, Defending chamBion Soong Poh Wah of egri sembilan yesterday ousted third seed Loong Ping Sum of Perak 21-14, £l-17, 21-18 to enter the final of the Malaysian Table-Tennis championships at Sam Tet School hall here. Poh Wah, who won the match in less than
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      Lock icon Upsets galore in tennis
      178 11 BRGOKLINE. MASSACHUSETTS More upsets marked the United States Professional Tennis championships here on Thursday with the major shock being the defeat of Australian Ken Rosewall. Seeded three, he went out 6-4, 7-6 to South African Cliff Drysdale. who Is taking advantage of the new "sudden death"
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      Lock icon HURDLES RECORD
      91 11 IPOH Another allcomers record was shattered yesterday morning the third day of the 48th Malaysian Amateur Athletics championships at Stadium Perak bringing the total so far to three new all-comers records and two national records. In the first final yesterday Singapore's Gan Bee Wah ran the women's 200
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      Lock icon SLALOM
      23 11 THREDBO, Australia Italy's skiing sculptor Carlo Demetz yesterday clinched the Wills International Cup with an amazing final run In the slalom title.
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      Lock icon M.RAMOS BEATS S. RAMOS
      139 11 LOS ANGELES Former world lightweight champion Mando Ramos, battered and bleeding from cuts over both eyes, hung on gamely oa Thursday night to score a split 10-round decision over ez-featherwelght king Sugar Ramos at Olympic Auditorium. The sensational victory earned the youthful Mando a return match
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      Lock icon Baseball results and standings
      213 11 NEW YORK Results and standings of the two major leagues after Thursday's games: AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST W L GB Baltimore 69 40 New York 59 49 Detroit 59 50 10 Boston 53 53 141 Cleveland 53 57 161 Washington 50 59 19 WEST W L OB
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      Lock icon Walt Alston can handle Dodgers
      726 11  -  A column on American sports by Milton Richman NEW YORK If you take a poll among all the managers and ask them to name the one they consider the most successful, the result is practically unanimous. Walt Alston always wins in a breeze. In this
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      Lock icon Australian softball team to play here
      497 12 MELBOURNE The Australian women's eoftboll teom it iW 10 ploy in Singapore, Manila# Hong Kong, Penoiig, Bangkok and Jokarta in September after defending its world championship title at an international tournoment on Aug* 22 in Osaka. The Australian girls world softball champions since 1965
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      Lock icon FAY SMALLWOOD, 24, single, of Oxley Is an outfielder. She first played for Queensland at the age of 17 and was State captain last year. She toured South Africa and Rhodesia with the team in 1967. she is a clerk typist with a firm of film distributors and likes squash and surfing.
      52 12 FAY SMALLWOOD, 24, single, of Oxley Is an outfielder. She first played for Queensland at the age of 17 and was State captain last year. She toured South Africa and Rhodesia with the team in 1967. she is a clerk typist with a firm of film distributors and likes squash
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      Lock icon FRAZIER STAYS IN TRAINING
      148 12 STATELIN*, NEVADA. World heavyweight champion Joe Frailer, who says he Is In trainIn* Just to keep la shape, may he preparing for a rematch with Jerry Quarry. Frazler and his manager, Yon* Durham, indicated on Thursday they may make an announcement next Monday. "I should know
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      Lock icon Kono, Yasuda to represent Japan in golf
      155 12 NEW YORK The Japanese team of Takaka Kono and Haruo Yasuda, which finished second to Lee Trevino and Orville Moody last year In Singapore, on Thursday accepted an invitation to represent their country again In the 18th World Cup Golf championship at Buenos
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      Lock icon Torres up a division
      122 12 MEXICO CITY,— Efren "Alacran"' Torres, Mexico'* former world flyweight boxing champion. announced on Thursday that he wou.d move Into the bantamweight ranks. Torres, remembered for his three world title fights against Thailand's Chartchol Chonol, In which he lost the first, won the title In the second,
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    • RACE DAY SPORTS LIFTOUT
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        Lock icon BACK DARYL'S LARK
        981 9  -  By Denni Boy jTJARYL'S LARK showed tremendous improvement when second to Copitol Gain over BJf ot Penong lost month. Always well back in the early stares of the race, Daryl's Lark came with a stormln* run close home hot just failed to catch the winner. At the
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        Lock icon Negri Express shines again
        230 9 IP OH Negri Express, a seven-length winner first time out, continues to impress when he came out for trackwork here this morning, reports our Racing Correspondent. With champion jockey Glynn Pretty up, Negri Express went better than his class one stablemate Bale rest at the end
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        Lock icon Marshall to ride here
        53 9 L. Marshall, 25 rated one of the best Jockey* in Australia, is due to arrive here next week. A lightweight, Marshall will be stable joekey to Penang trainer Teh Say Leong. Trainer Teh is now leading in the trainers list with 44 winners, si* ahead of
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        Lock icon CYCLING GOLD
        53 9 LEICESTER, England Niels Fredborg of Den* mark won the gold medal in the one kilometre amateur time trial at th« world cycling champion■hips here yesterday Harry Kent of New Zealand won the silver medal and Serghei Kravchov (Soviet Union) and Anton Tkac (Czechoslovakia), who tied for third ©lace.
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      1244 10 Raee 1: CI. 6 Dlv. 2—sVi F.—2.15 p.m. ($4,500) w 1. ***** Dust Fury 9y 900 Mews (RS Breuk) Buang 7 2 ***** Kingsel 6y 8.12 Ganpolin (Mansor) Ng 9 3. ***** Coup de Main 6y 811 Breuk Ho (E Breuk) Shaari 11 4. ***** Space Master
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      192 10 I DENN1 BOY CISCO ZODIAC HACK It ill M. RACONTEUR Dust Fury Gwerle JR M RACONTEUR Dust lury Gwerle (12) M. RACONTEUR 6 Amnesty (1) Dust Kury HACK S: K>; SPY 11 Voluble K- Exporter 111 i SPY II Voluble Mannum Miss (77 R- EXPORTER III 2 Spy 11
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    Lock icon THE BEATLES ARE BACK
    359 13 THE Booties oro bock in films with o new feature, "Let It Be." The world's most successful pop group consisting of George Harrison, John Lennon. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are presented in the Informality of rehearsal. The picture takes its title from The Beatles new
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    Lock icon 'Let It Be' is an unrehearsed visit with the Beatles
    156 13 EVER hear of a movie without a screenwriter? The latest Beatle movie one. Didn't need one. Because it's all Impromptu and unrehearsed. A camera was set up to watch them at play and at work and that's what the new
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      25 13 PMJCE DIE-CUB 55 tJ m Gss JULIE FUNG Hiss LILY YUEN-THE The 8M Palace inrUTHkir Al 17 Qatet«L Special NIGHTIiIuALE ■■MkMa m Qf TAIWAN Snlan
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      58 13 THE SUN Best Sunday Reading ITS SPOT-ON ENTERTAINMENT AT THE SPOT-SPOTO RENAISSANCE staggering word on the sound scene. Throbbing with unleashed wildness. Thrilling with gentle passion. More than a sound, an explosion of music. More than a show, a total experience. Grab some happening momenta of your own—with the Renaissance,
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      311 13 LID O Phone *****4 Now Showing No Frw List 11 am. 1.45 4. 9.30 A 111 I&d Mctthane "Pussycat Pussycat I Love You* Color (United Artists! See the film and win 30 bottles of Max Factor PUSSYCAT PERFUME courtMj of MAX FACTOR Entry Forms at Box-Offlce Tonight Si Tomorrow M'nlte
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      158 13 O n G A f\J IS A TIO l\J CATHAV 3 MOt BUBBY1 BVUII MilWy LAST DATS! a. iJM. «.M. u». 9M MB. RICHARD HARRIS AS -A HAN CALLED HORSE" PtuVliloo. Ootor i OOEDN 2 niti N«« Shawlngl No PrM LUt a L». «.M. IN. IN p.B. Fori "TU SICILIAN
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      1988 14 LOOKING AND LISTENING....iv and radio guide [CARROLL RIOHTER'S from the Carroll Righlev laatitate GENERAL TENDENCIES: You have a chance to make aome important decision* where your obligations and responsibilities are concerned Firat make sure you use your gift of prophetic insight to decide the principles under which you would like
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    Lock icon A FAMILY AFFAIR...
    486 15 PAUL Mosimky and Lorry Tucker wrote, produced and directed Bob fir Carol fir Ted fir Alice." It wot o huge bit. "We were sitting around one day," Tucker says, "wondering what to do next" "So we decided to do a film about a film director who has
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    Lock icon Sally Kellerman turns charms on snakes
    530 15  -  Bjr Dick Kleiner HOUSTON Almost every glamour girl in pictures today has one. Faye Dun away, Jackie Bisset, Julie Christie they oil hare the boy friend with the groat pile of curly hair and the drooping mustache. It was no surprise to find that
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    Lock icon Irs SEXY ON THE BEACH —GEMS AND BIKINIS
    424 16  -  By Marianne Pereiro QANDRA was in o bikini. So we adorned her with all this jewellery... the effect a combination of a beautiful girl and beautiful jewellery was startling. Ever thought of wearing jewellery to the beach? It's sumptuous, sexy ond the
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    Lock icon Your fashion futures
    141 16 MANY dresses that look two-piece, as in mock-Jumpers with pleated plaid wool skirts, or dresses with solid colour tope over bias check skirts. THE many real Jumpers, which make the midl look young and sportive, in black wool with satin shirt, In scooped-neck style with turtleneck pullover.
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  • SATURDAY WOMEN
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      Lock icon Someone, somewhere would find you sexy
      724 17  -  By Katherine Hill QRITISH men, according to oil statistics on the subject, look at the legs on a girl before they look at anything else. Americans, however, will whistle after the lady with the biggest bust, or the traditional hour-glass figure. The French have
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      Lock icon DOCTOR HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH PATIENT
      521 17  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: Our family doctor, who has a lovely wife and four children, is having an affair with a woman who pretends to be a patient although she is healthy as a horse. It hurts me to see this wonderful man ruin
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Late rally strengthens mart
      248 18 overnight s easier trend In the Stock Ezchange was extended to yesterday's market bat towards the close strong bids swarmed In to generate a firm and active market Starllte Ceramic •gain dominated trading for two days running with 041,000 changing handi from $1.14 to $1.22 on
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      Lock icon Oils strong on London stock mart
      163 18 LONDON Oils were strong following the quarterly from Royal ftutch/ShelL Royal Dutch added 1/2 point at 20-1/2 and Shell was around 2/6 higher. The other majors moved ahead in sympathy but profit taking and a certain lack of support slipped the gains In late
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      63 18 THIi noon Drtrn Singapore (blnete S£b,!*oT" MM at tfte Produce wercsMOO Coconot Oil JfJUl) UM M. Copra £2 so Muniok H'blt* WU, 187.80 Sarawtfa Hbfte 180-00 Sarawak bpcctau •Warn rep per .(FOB.) 18X00 Lampona HpertaJ iiiSvu- Lamponjt HUM* ***** fwr AttTA Coffer Ap 1 MO.OO Coffer AP ***** (f.OEJ
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      Lock icon Rubber market quietly steady
      268 18 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 51-1/8 up 3/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quietly steady. After an unchanged opening the market ruled mostly inactive with many operators on the
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      Lock icon HK currency rates
      116 18 BONG KONG Friday's currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): <Bnyers) (Sellers) 195 194 per 100 Straits dollars 152 154 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 8.74 6.75 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1,000 Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1.000 Indian rupees 140 160 per 10,000
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      36 18 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 722.82 20 Transp 128.73 15 Utilities 103.59 65 Btock« 226.88 40 Bonds 65.80 Commodity Futures Index 138.84 up 0.32
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      Lock icon London tin
      29 18 LONDON —Tin was barely steady with 80 lots sport buyers 1499 sellers 1500 business nil 3-month buyers 1503 sellers 1504. Business 1503 Sellers 1504 Business 1503. 1504.
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      Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
      609 18 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of boslness In tbe Singapore and Koala Lumper trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B 8 Acma L 44 L 46 Ajinomoto 2.12 AJenn 1.39 1.49 Allied Choc. 2.81 Ben. Ed 1.14 1.15 Berjaya 1.41 1.43
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      792 18 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACM A $1.49 (4): AJinomoto $2.10 (1) $212 (1); Alcan $1.30 (1) $l4O (2)
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      Lock icon THE PESO
      30 18 MANILA, *nie Philippine peso floating rate advanced Friday to 6.26 pesos from Thursday's rate of 6.255 against one UJ3. dollar. Volume In the interbank currency market totalled U*****.000,
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 19 The tin price for yesterday was $6371 per picul down $3.00.
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      Lock icon Firm to sell executive jet to S.E.A.
      242 19 PICTURED with a model of the fan-jet Falcon, the highly successful executive Jet built by Marcel Dassault In France, Is Mr. Patrick J. Gares, director of sales and service for Airservices Ltd. Mr. Qarez recently returned from Paris with a contract for Airservices
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      477 19 ARRIVALS 145 am MSA 125 Kuala Lumpur 625 a m. MSA 586 Madras 730 am. Ms A 123 Kuala Lumpur •30 a.m. MSA 451 Kuala Lumpur 10 30 am. MSA 44* Kuchlag 1105 a.m. MSA 454 Pcuanf. K. Lumpur 1150 a.m. MSA 20:< Jakarta 1.30 p.m. MSA 451
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      Lock icon Sydney slumps
      298 19 SYDNEY Widespread slumps ended trading for the week on a soar note on Sydney Stock Exchange Friday. Continuing with Thursday's late trend, the market persisted dull with low share turnovers on morn inf trading. The trend, which hu sapped buyers' confidence for the past two days, culminated in
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