Eastern Sun, 13 August 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily to jr fcstd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1419 Thursday, August 13 f 1970. MC (P) 1616
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  • 291 1  -  By K.S. SIDHU JJUNDREDS of people were yesterday involved in o mod "gold rush" of the walls of on OTcrent Indian temple at South Bridge Rood. Meny people staggered home with pockets and buckets full of gold c'ust. It turned out inevitably to be "fools' gold"
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  • 131 1 rr EL AVIV The Suez ceasefire was violated for the first time when Egyptian units fired on an Israeli patrol across the canal early yesterday, an Israeli Army spokesman reported. The Israeli force was operating along the central sector ana did not return the fire, the spokesman
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  • 30 1 ROME Italy's new Government cleared its first parliamentary hurdle yesterday when it won a vote of confidence from the Chamber of Deputies with a comfortable majority of 117.
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  • 243 1 MOSCOW West Germany and the Soviet Union yesterday signed a treaty to renounce the use of force and respect the inviolability of present frontiers in Europe. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin signed the historic treaty in
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  • 187 2 ANOTHER month-long health campaign to "Keep Singapore Clean and Pollution-Free'' will be launched by the Government on Oct. 14. A National Campaign Committee comprising government ministries, statutory boards and the private sector has been set up. This year's campaign will focus public attention on the specific
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  • 70 2 Police have arrested a 18-year-old unemployed youth who had earlier snatched a necklace of a school-girl, yesterday. Miss Tan Hoon Yian, 16, was walking along Jalan Delangkas when the youth snatched her necklace and ran away. Miss Tan gave chase. An on-looker dialled 999. When a police
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  • 46 2 A Malaysian immifrant, Chong Nee Kong, B. was fined $lOO yesterday for working as a barber In Aljunled Road while on a social visit pass. Chong, on the other hand, was also fined $5O for overstaying since his v'slt pass expired on July 31*
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  • 183 2 Mr. P. Govindaswamy, MP for Anson, last night urged Singaporeans to strive harder for security And prosperity for the coming years. The people, he said, should aim at Increasing productivity and to Improve their earning capacity. Mr. Govindaswamy was speaking at a National Day
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  • 26 2 A housewife, Lim Mah Nee. 35. was fined $l,OOO. yesterday for assisting In a public lottery, Chap-Jee-kee. She r»' led guilty to the offence.
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  • 79 2 ment and Prime Minister's Office; Housing and Development Board, Jurong Town Corporation, People's Association. Tort of Singapore Authority, Public Utilities Board, Tourist Promotion Board, University of Singapore; National Trades Union Congress, Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. National Employers' Council. Singapore
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  • 121 2 Five youths were yesterday charged with theft of cash and property worth $146, from a car parked at Changl beach on Aug. 9. Sani bin Sublr. Mohi- dln bin Ma'noor, Abu Bakar bin Omar, all 20. Kamsan bin Jan. and Md. Noor bin Ahmad. 29, were
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  • 64 2 These youths are trying to collect strains of fold from the wall off the Sri Mariamman Temple, yesterday. The "gold rush" at the temple which was a hoax brought hundreds of people rushing to the temple In South Bridge Road. (Below) Children and women
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 43 2 Toto draw The Toto Draw No. 64/70 will be held at the Variety Show Stage, Gay World Amusement Park at 7.45 p.m. tonight Mr. Soon Eng Boh. Chairman of the National Day Exposition Committee. will chair the Panel of Judges at the draw.
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  • 261 3 DISPUTE arising from land repossessed for urban development under the "Golden Shoe" area came up for the first time before the Tenant Compensation Board yesterday. Madam Lee Chai Jai. 63. a chief tenant, is claiming compensation amounting to $90,000 from the owners,
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  • 213 3 THE body of schoolboy Yap Kwal Chuen, 11, was recovered by police at G. 30 p.m. yesterday more than 34 hours after he was reported missing at sea, off Katong. Police found the body of the boy at the beach behind the Joo
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  • 60 3 The Coroner's Court yesterday recorded a verdict ol misadventure on the death of Teo Cheng Phiew, 43, who fell some 20 feet down from a rambutan tree. The incident occurred on July 29, when Teo, a hawker, was plucking rambutans at his Jalan Baharu Utara home, off
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  • 50 3 Dalbir Singh, 20, and Subramanian Punnia Merthl, 18, claimed trial yesterday to a marge of Housebreaking last Friday. The v were alleged of using a building at Anthony Road as a human dwelling on that night. Bail of $5OO was allowed and hearing was fixed on 27,
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  • 93 3 THREE youths yesterday claimed trial to a charge of extortion, on Aug. 4 along Yung An Road. Taman Jurong. Poh Sze Lam, Lim Soon Bene, and Lee Cheng Thong were alleged to have extorted money from Chin Kim Yon, by putting him in fear of injury.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 157 4 KUALA LUMPUR Amendment* to the SedlUoa Act, making H an offence to raise sensitive Issues which can incite racial feelings are now law. The Emergency Ordinance bringing about the amendments received the royal assent earlier this month. It has now been Included in
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  • 457 4 A TAXI driver from Kuching yesterday told the High Court how o shower of roin lost year reduced $4OO in his pocket to worthless scraps of paper. The eight $5O notes in Malaysian currency were counterfeit notes, declared Kho Liang Seng. He said the
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  • 113 4 The Lutheran churches of Singapore welcome the public to nine days of "Inspiration for Abundant Living through the Gospel" to be held nightly at 7:St p.m. at the following locations and dates: m Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, SO Dukes Road, Singa- pore 10. (August
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  • 52 4 A 17-year-old labourer, Ram Chandran, escaped death miraculously when ho fell from the ninth floor of the Cuscaden House to the second floor. A plank gave way while he was standing In a lift which had a hollow base. He only received a bruise on the
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  • 100 4 Students and Teachers of the Teachers* Training College above Inspect some of the 3,3 M recently published school textbooks presented to the College by the Educational Publishers of Great Britain. Among them (third from right) is the College Principal, the Rev. T.R. uoraisamy who received
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 219 5 SYDNEY Doctors at the Royal Alexandria Hospital far children have per foiled intricate microscopic snrfery on a S-year-old boy to rejoin an almost severed finger. The boy, Jason Todd, was operated on Memday night after he was flown from Y ass. 180 miles south-west
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  • 132 5 LONDON Britain's Royal Navy admitted responsibility for canisters of toxic chemicals washed ashore on the Isle of Wight, o ft the Biglish South Coast 1 A Navy spokesman said ths canisters, which contain ferric chloride, were part of a consignment dumped last month to
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  • 426 5 YORK Prisoners held 3 guords hostage for tight hours in Manhattan's grim Tombs Joil in a second successive day of rioting. The guords were freed lote Tuesdoy night after prison outhorities repeoted pledges to investigate prisoners' grievances. These include charges of overcrowding
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  • 203 6 QUEBEC The 7 masked men who snatched about 553 million in a daring mail robbery might have inside help. Police put forward this theory after reporting they were having trouble picking up clues to the well-organised theft. Twenty-three sealed mail bags were stolen from
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  • 104 6 AUCKLAND. New Zealand Inmates st New Zealand's maximum security prison generally have a good time In jail, their guards complained. In an unsigned letter to the 'Auckland Star,' the jailers felt the prisoners should not be allowed to stay up after midnight listening to radiobroadcasts of the current
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  • 105 6 LOS ANGELES Hippie leader Charles Manson's lawyer in the Sharon Tate Murder Trial has been ordered to wind up his controversial questioning of the star prosecution witness. Meanwhile, there were reports that his client is on hunger strike over his handlin e of the case. Ronald
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  • 64 6 ROCHESTER, New York Twenty-two prisoners broke out of the Monroe County Penitentiary here A spokesman for the Sheriff's office said the men spent all day cutting an escape hole in a prison wall. Three of the escapees have been recaptured and more than 100 State,
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  • 57 6 WASHINGTON —A captive in South Vietnam's notorious "tiger cages" was shackled for three years, losing the use of his legs, according to evidence made public yesterday. A U.S. official made a tape-recording of prisoners' tales of suffering during a visit to the cages, on Con Son
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 328 6 TAIPEI Fourteen people are missing and feared dead after a China Airline plane crashed into a valley just outside Taipei yesterday. Another 17 had been rushed to hospital but none appeared In critical condition. The plane carried 26 passengers and five crew
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  • 48 6 WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WILLT BRANDT (centre) Is aecompanied by Soviet Premier Kosygin (left) while reviewing the guard of honour in Moscow. Brandt arrived in Russia for the signing of the recently negotiated non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. (IPI radiophoto). (UPI radiophoto).
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  • 194 6 ROME Two youths on a motor-cycle stole a 5572.000 emerald from Director Federico FelUni and his actress wife in a scene worthy of a return movie. Glulletta Maslna was walking with her husband and friends to lunch, when they saw 2 youths on a
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  • 209 7 Th« White House stepped into o row over pornogrophy. President Nixon took the unusuol step of letting it be known in odvonce thot he will reject the expected odvice from o Presidentiol Commission. The 18-member commission was appointed
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  • 145 7 RECIFE, Brazil At least 123 persons died In the severe floods which are hitting this city, the Firework Department announced. Beventy of the corpses. the most part of them found under the debris of co lapsed iiouses, were alreaay buried Before burial, the bodies
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  • 123 7 Indian arrow that thudded into a tourist boat threatened to provoke a showdown between the U.S. Government and Indians occupy ing Alcatras. "The Government does not intend to tolerate the firing of one more arrow or stone at boats from Alcatras," Government official Thomas
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    • 49 7 PI m'mi FROM THE PEN A week behind bars gave reporter Tom Tiede some insights int prisons and prisoners... and why jails and corrections houses fa to correct society's wayward citizens. 7 This exciting series starts in THE SUN this weekend. IT'S ON SALE AT 7 P.M. ON SATURDAY
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  • 657 8 JF ever there was a reluctant Prime Minister, it is Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand. He has played various key roles in Thai politics and both as a lieutenant of the stem dictator, the late Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, and in his own right as the head
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  • 669 8  -  By Frank Mankiewics and Tom Braden CONTRARY to the express language of President Nixon on the question of a coalition government in Saigon, it can ow be authoritatively stated that Ambassador David Bruce will indeed have "something new" to offer the other side in Paris.
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  • 134 8 WASHINGTON: A lot of wrenching adjustment* will have to be made when, as It eventually must, the United States adopts the metric system o; measurement. But one that has seldom been mentioned involves the very way we talk. Consider these "metric equivalents" of some common expressions as
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  • 361 8  -  By Dick West BECAUSE almost everyone is either male or female, it is difficult to obtain a truly unbiased opinion of the Women's Liberation Movement. I think you will agree, however, that If anyone Is qualified to render a completely Impartial Judgment, that person is Christine Jorgensen. So when
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    • 56 8 Foreign news and features appearing In all editions of the Eastern Son and The Sun are from: Renters, United Press International. Acence France Presse Editors Press Syndicate, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Publishers Hall Syndicate Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Gemini News Service, North American Newspaper Alliance. First Features Inter-Press Feature* and The
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 859 9  -  #l PAGE 9 SPECIAL By Derek Ingram QEORGE BROWN hos become a Lord ond he hot soid: "I hope that to everybody I will simply remoin George Brown/' He need not worry: thot is just what will hoppen. George Brown is just about the most
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  • 403 9  -  DOCTOR'S MAILBAG By Wayne G. Brandstadt Q— MT DAUGHTER rives her children 2 per cent Milk. Wouldn't whole Milk be better for thrniT A If the children are overweight, skimmed milk would be best for them. If their weight is normal, there
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  • 2015 10/11  -  PART TWO deals with the Communist movement in Indonesia, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia. Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and South Vietnam. PART ONE was published yesterday. It dealt with the Reds in Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Nationalist China, Hong Kong and India. By
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  • Page 10/11 Advertisements
    • 97 10/11 The Japan with a difference." Cathay Pacific's Japan. Every day you can discover it. The Cormorant Fishing at Gifu. The snow in Sapporo. The Ginza in Tokyo. The Imperial Palace, the Meiji Shrrne, the serene Inland Sea. Japan is all there waiting for you to discover. For business or pleasure.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1778 12 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... fv &5S di Carrol U^Mi GENERAL TENDENCIES: A dramatic event can happen today to five you chance to gain the advancement yon wish. An Inventive idea comet to you that has to do <vith getting new and improved methods for your property interests so you have more
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  • 680 13  -  By Dick Kleiner rfO directors. Otto Premingor he wishes he were younger. Elliot Silverstein he wishes he were older. Preminger: Bald, austere, heavy Viennese accent. Silverstein: Curly haired, cheerful, vibrant. Preminger: A major figure in Hollywood for years, director of many great Alms and
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  • 129 13 LONDON "A Cry of Players," the Martin Poll production for Columbia Pictures, will be directed by Jack Gold. Based on the William Gibson play, "A Cry of Players" is a love story centering on the decision of a young poet William Shakespeare to break away from
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 104 13 THE NATIONAL THEATRE TRUST in association with Y.R. ZAKOO present m Y\ XA*E .\\y l\\wv I 'Ci4 w l^ By arrangement with Gosconcert MOMOW jV <>f ?ri Dancers f. •8i Tiger* MttsK'ianK NATIONAL THEATRE—2Ist to 25th August. Nightly 8.30 p.m. Popular prices: $2.00 to $20.00 Special matinees at reduced rates
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 270 13 RGAIMISATION RCHABD-***** 3rd WEEK! N* Free UM "thewet 1-*® Uf Sunday E*tra Show 10 a.m. Aam SI Ml. UMi MW Cub Book inn* Onli THE ADVENTUBEBB' IFM I Pana Vision Color OBCHABD ODEON Sat Midnight (Mand.) ••TIE All The Sea Gone Dry" Tang Lan Bua. Color. Scope English Chinese Subtitles
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    • 206 13 B SHAW lION LID O Phon«-*****4 NOW BHOWINOI II i«, 1.45 I N A I U The Beatlea "LET IT BE" In TECHNICOLOR (OA) COMINO SOON I Olna L*rllobrlglda "That Kplrndld Novrmbrr" Color CAPITOL Plan' Uit Day No Free Lut 11 mm. I.N. 4. «4V I N p a Cheng
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  • Students' page
    • 495 14 WHAT docs National Service actually means to us? On the whole If this subject Is to be discussed and mentioned socially, it would be obvious that half of the majority will be unable to verify the deep meaning it signifies. Ever since National Service was introduced a few
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    • Article, Illustration
      187 14 Library is (be house of knowledge. We go to tbe library to study, and to get more knowledge. Now how do we choose a library? Firstly, the library must be divided into two sections, the "Senior** and the "Junior" sections. "Hius, senior students can study and read senior books
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    • 746 14 rags* SCIENCE NOTES LONDON: Molecular biology, the study of the structure of life at the level which really matters, is a very new science, bat already it's clear that the actual three-di-mensional SHAPES of working parts of living cells far too small to see under the
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    • 175 14 THE Adult Education Board and the National Theatre Trust are jointly organising Chinese Instrumental Music Classes from Sept. 6. Classes of six months duration at elementary and Intermediate levels In the fol.owing instruments will be organised Erb-hu. Pi pa, Ku 'Ch'ng, Flute. These classes will be
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    • 11 14 It Is sarromiiitiaff difficulties that makes her oca, Louis K«Nthi
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 192 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe TW Eastern Sun's essay writing contest jfor boys and girls o# 14 and under (Junior) jand boys and girig over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. J Prize money is: SIC for Seniors and $5 for lunioa for every essay published
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  • 259 15  -  Thurtday Food by Ruth Bakalar CALAD meals, a sometime summertime thing in other climates, should be o daily delight in tropical Singapore, where salad makings are so plentiful and so varied, and the weather forecast is always fair and warm. You don't need leftover turkey to
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  • 185 15 With this luncheon salad. or almost any luncheon salad, serve piping hot buttery cornbread, made with a quick-mix or by this simple formula. Note: if you don't have sour milk in the house, add 2 teaspoons vinegar to cup fluid milk, made with full cream or skim
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  • 224 15 Dear Ann: The letter from the nut who wanted her husband to spank her got my Ire up. Every now and then one of these sick women writes to you and It pleases me that you set them straight. And now may I have the last word to
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  • 100 15 THE longuette umbrella. on a slender handl* long enough to use as a walking stick, in snakeskln or Oriental prints. HOSIERY the. colour rather than patterns, sheer but opaque enough to bring out the colour, with an occasional self-stripe. RETURN to the "granny dreases of a few seasons
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 82 17 TENDER Singapore Polytechnic Tender Kef. No- B ISS/7* TENDERS arc Invited for the supply of the following for the School Of Industrial Technology > auium ent for BlcrtrW Power And Mnwurfv menU Laboratory. Detailed ipeclflcationa and conditions of supply are obtainable from the Supplies Officer. Singapore Polytechnic Prince Edward Road
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 427 19 IT\ETROIT The people of Michigan City, where Joe Louis began hit fight career some 40 years ago planned to pay tribute to bim on Wednesday night in cash and kindness at an All Star Gala aimed at raising over US$lOO,000 for a trust fund
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    • 41 19 WHO says flying Is strictly for the birds. Half-back L.R. Cummings shows that man can do It too for a fleeting moment anyway. Actually, Cummings is about to deliver a dive-pass during rugby practice in Suva, Fiji.
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    • 194 19 NEW YORK Results and standings of the two major leagues after Tuesday's games: NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L GB Pittsburgh 64 52 New York 60 53 24 Chicago 59 56 4ft St. Louis 54 60 9 Philadelphia 53 60 9{ Montreal 49 67 15 WEST W
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    • 511 19  -  A column on Am by Milton Richman NEW YORK Robert E. Lee attended a christening: one day at which the father of the little boy being baptised had a rather tough question for him. "General, 1 h the father asked, "What is the first thing you
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 79 19 Pest a Sukan diary TODAY'S events: Billiards: 1970 championship (7.00 p.m.) Singapore Recreation Club. Bowling: Ist F.I.Q. Asian Zone championship (4.30 p.m. 12.00 p.m.) Orange Road Bowling Centre Chess; 6th Open championship (6.30 p.m. 10.30 p.m.) Polytechnic. Chess (Chinese): Masters Open championship (8.00 p.m. 11.00 p.m.) Hong Lim Park Golf:
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  • 281 20 UNITED NATIONS Dr. Ounnar Jarring was yesterday reported Increasingly impatient to get his peace mission going and in a "make or break" mood as Israel and the Arabs maintained opposing views on how he should proceed. y,N. diplomats close to
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  • 73 20 KUALA LUMPUR Burmese p'ayers In the 13th Merdeka soccer tournament have been caught with their bootjs off. And they are very angry about It. The loss of boots Is "sabotage", team manager U Hla Maun g charged. The boots were missing from the Burmese camp at
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  • 22 20 ALLAHABAD, India One person was killed and 28 others Injured In a collision Involving two express trains near here early yesterday.
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  • 459 20 Stocks worth $126,000 stolen 'PHIEVES cleaned out two godowns of goods worth $126,000 in two separate raids in the island within the last 24 hours. The East Asiatic Company godown at Saiboo Road had 36 crotes of cigarettes worth $16,521 stolen from it. In the
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