Eastern Sun, 27 October 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily J cents Esfd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1483 Tuesday, October 27, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 81 1 'Golden girl' Pat is a hit in the p ool... "Golden girl" Pat Chan was a splash hit with these children of British servicemen when she visited the Tang 1 i n swimming pool at Headquarters Far East Land Forces. The children had invited Pat along to present swimming and
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  • 35 1 BOGOTA At least 25 people were killed Sunday in a series of avalanches which swept away stretches of a major mountain road near the Northern Colombian city of Medel--11 n, officials reported here.
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  • 272 1 Coiro has no objection to extension of the Middle East ceasefire for two months. But, during the two-month period, United Notions mediator Gunnor Jorring must resume his peace mission. At the end of this time Egypt believes he should submit a report on
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  • 266 1 JAKARTA A young Indonesian woman, who claims that her unborn baby can speak and pray, says she is prepared to be executed if her claim a hoax. j—-- w Mrs. TJut Zaharafonna, 23, told reporters: "I do not know what to do with all this
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  • 336 2 HPHE National Trades Union Congress, stung by allegations that the labour movement had been "castrated", yesterday launched an angry tirade against Singapore's "ivory tower socialists." Ft assailed the "intellectual sterility and abysmal ignorance" of such socialists as represented by those from the Democratic Socialist Club.
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  • 151 2 A labourer who complained of hi* "lack of qualifications and low income" killed himself by drinking poison, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Tang Wah Slang. 24. employed by Electrical Manufacturing of Malaysia Pte Ltd., committed suicide at his house at 6] m.s. Buklt Tim ah
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  • 108 2 Spot checks on taxis were conducted by Registry of Vehicles officials at 7 centres yesterday. The checks are part of the programme to pick the cleanest taxi during the monthlong "Keep Singapore Clean and PollutionFree Campaign.'' Prises will be awarded to the winners of the
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  • 69 2 SINGAPORE Pools yesterday declared that To to coupons bearing serial number *****1 *****5 are invalid. It explained that the "B" and "C parts of the Toto coupons were not submitted by Agent 301-08 for safe-keeping before the draw. The holder of the "A" portions of the coupon*
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  • 354 2 Car talesman, Mashor bin Marfcani, 34, was yesterday convicted and sentenced to a year's jail for living on the immorsaJ earnings of a prostitute. He was alleged to have lived on the earnings of Rita Nicholas 21. at Exeter Road between January. 1968. and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 9 2 'AMY By Jack. Tlppif W, s m w n
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    • 140 2 Around Town 8.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. 7.30 p.m. 50th ScienKxhibition to mark tlflc meeting by Sin25th anniversary of g apore Surgical United Nations at Society at Pathology National Library foy- Lecture llieatre. *r. 7.30 p.m. Film Shows 10.00 a.m. Cooking in conjunction with session by Mr. Peter "Keep Singapore
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  • 264 3 OENIOR police officers ore believed to be working on new plans to police Too Payoh estate. A meeting between the MP for Toa Payoh, Mr. Eric Cheong, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ponniah Raiaratnam will be held today. A police spokesman
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  • 72 3 Top American vocalist Nancy Wilson (above) has something to say about the midi to make defenders of the mini glad that she is on their Bide. "I shun the midis. They are ugly and make the wearer look old and terrible," she said. Nancy does
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  • 41 3 KUCHING, Sarawak Malaysian Police drove off a band of armed Communist guerrillas in a brief exchange of lire when they attacked the Slnlawan Police Station, 17 miles from here last Sunday night the State Operations Com mitte# reported yesterday.
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  • 249 3 The intervention by a police officer on Sunday night saved four people from an armed gang. The police officer attached to the Internal Security Department was standing at the junction of Orchard Road and Keok Road when he saw a running gang clash.
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  • 99 3 The police will take action against motorcyclists who use motorcycles fitted with highhandled bars. The police warning came from a statetment released v«sterday. It warned the motoring public that it was an offence under Rule 98(3) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Rules,
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  • 349 4 LUMPUR Eighteen days after her marriage, a factory worker was asked by her husband to become a prostitute and earn money for him, the High Court was told yesterday. When she refused, she was slapped and told to "leave the house/'
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  • 270 4 1/UALA LUMPUR Asean countries were 1 yesterday urged to set up their own national committees on mass media to facilitate communications between the member countries in implementing their projects. The secretary-general of the Ministry of Information and Culture. Enche Abdul Majld.
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  • 234 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abdul Kadir bin Yusof, has said that there was a curb on absolute free speech in Parliament even before the suspension of parliamentary rule in May last year. The standing orders of the Dewan Ra'ayat.
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  • 266 4 KUALA LUMPUR Democratic Action Party MPs and State Assemblymen have been told that a fresh multi-racial approach was needed to achieve national integration in Malaysia. The party's chairman, Dr. Chen Man Hin, said at a DAP national seminar for the MPs and State
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  • 108 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysia is entering "an era of exploration" in oil and other mineral resources the Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, said. He added that of late, there was an increasing interest shown by American, British French and Japanese companies in the sea-bed both
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  • 96 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Islamic conference of Foreign Ministers scheduled in Karachi in December it expected to endorse the appointment of Tunku Abdul Rahman as the Secretary-Gen-eral of thq Islamic Secretariat, This was stated here br the visiting Pakistani Minister of Information and National Affairs, Gen.
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  • 380 5 f EGISLATION to convert the Telecoms Department into an autonomous statutory body will be tabled in Parliament soon. This was disclosed yesterday by Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin at the opening of the Telecoms Training Centre at Stevens Road. The
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  • 236 5 One of two men who played hide and seek with an off-duty police inspector was arrested after a 15-minute chase yesterday. They played hlde-ftnd-seek through darkened lanes when Insp. Robert Ng chased them In his car around Albert Street, Middle Road and
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  • 136 5 THE intense interest in tropical flsh of a German ehemist started a million dollar enterprise for another man. The other man, Mr. Walther Grlem, 70, today is regarded as the king of tropical flsh breeders In West Germany. Mr. Grlem arrived yesterday to study
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  • 81 5 A coroner yesterday i ecorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Tauyoshi Itashimoto, 23, who was iataily crushed by a forklift on October 11. The mishap took place at Camel Plywood Industry, Jalan Papan. Hashimoto, a pro. duction engineer, was then driving the forklift to
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  • 48 5 A TOTAL of 1,029 "pirate" taxi-drivers have registered for job conversion so far. Another 25 drivers were registered at the 3 centres yesterday. "Pirate" taxi-drivers using vehicles bearing registration numbers 7000-7999 who have not registered as yet. have been given till today to register.
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  • 98 5 Rate b 1 n Husain 32. was yesterday fined $250 for attempting to resell cinema tickets and for obstructing- customs officers. He pleaded sruilty to both the charges which he had committed at the Singapura Theatre, last SaturSenior Superintendent of Customs, Mr. Chew Bah Tee told
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  • 66 6 Screaming demonstrations carrying slogans demanding women's liberation, challenge riot police arresting a girl demonstrator during a recent march in Tokyo. This is the Japanese version of the "Women's Liberation Movement." Its first street demonstration was staged on the occasion of the International AntiWar Day. An
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  • 129 6 MANILA. President Marcos has appealed to politicians to disband their private ar"l will not and cannot tolerate private warlords," President warned In a message to the opening of a new stock exchange of Cehu Cltv in the South Philippines. O f peace-keeping agencies have standing
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  • 341 6 VTEW YORK Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme felt the Paris peace negotiators should take advantage of the current "flexibility" being shown byl>oth the American and North Vietnamese Governments. Interviewed on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television programme, "Issues and Answers," Palme declared, "we are at
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  • 242 6 JAKARTA A New Zealand businessman was attacked twice by gangs in a row over a group of romantic tourist islands off the coast of West Java. He Is burly, 6-foot Gary Walker. 25. Walker and Navy Colonel Ja.sa Natakusumah set up a firm, Putrl Cv.
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  • 108 6 SAIGON Soath Vietnamese troops smashed across the Cambodian border in force on Sunday. The big new operation was designed to oast communist troops believed to have reinAHrated their former sanctuaries near the battered town of Snuol, 125 miles northeast of Phnom Penh. The South
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  • 50 6 MOSCOW Soviet and American experts here yesterday for their first-ever space co-operation talks. II the two space powers can reach agreement after further talks on dockinr systems, this would open up rich prospects tor joint activities in space and for emergency rescue® o f «ich other's spacemen.
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  • 56 7 France's "grand old man*' of show business, Maurice Chevalier la on the road again. This time he's in San Francisco and here he autographs his book 1 Remember it Well.** Chevalier, 82, is travelling throughout the United States to
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  • 18 7 STOCKHOLM The No. bet Prize for economics has been awarded to American professor Paul A. Samuelsson.
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  • 246 7 ££ANGKOK Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn has ordered the destruction of the major bases of 2,000 Communist guerrillas who are planning widespread attacks in north and south Thailand after the monsoon. Thanom said senior army and police generals ore now visiting northern and southern
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  • 114 7 RAWALPINDI. A Punjab politician and three other men have been killed in an ambush, at Gujarat Police uld the shooting followed a family feud. The dead men are Miam Mohammad Akbar. a Moslem League candidate for th r Punjab Provincial Council in the Dec 7 elections,
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  • 186 7 AMMAN Several offices of Hie Palestine Liberation Organisation were opened in Amman yesterday as units of th e Palestine Liberation Army arrived to guard them. AJB the offices were reopened to imp ement agreements ending last month's clashes between Jordanian troops and Palestinian commandos the
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  • 226 7 TOKYO Nuclear armaments for Japan would carry little milit a r j significance In this missile age. Defence Agency directorgeneral Yasuhiro Nakasone said today. Nakasone said it would not pay for Japan to have nuclear arms. A nation characterised by concentration of
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  • 510 8 Powell wants Commonwealth to end I.')NI)ON Britain's controversial rijtht-wing Member of Parliament, Enoch Powell, declared he would be pleased to see the end of the British Commonwealth. Speaking on a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio interview, he commented, "The great majority of people in this country, whether
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  • 290 8 SOUTHAMPTON, England A rising gale yesterday battered the fire-black-ened tanker, "Pacific Glory." The ship was grounded on a sandbank off the English south coast with 72,000 tons of oil surging in her tanks. Towns along the coast feared the pounding would breach the tanks and release
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  • 102 8 VATICAN CITY Pope Paul expressed hope for union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches when he proclaimed 40 English and Welsh saints in St. Peter's Basilica. The saints are among some 400 Catholic martys who died between 1535 and 1679 for refusing to
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  • 186 8 LONDON About the time Britain's Princess Anne was born, a clairvoyant peeped into her future and avowed that the infant would some day help rule a foreign land. Not a remarkable prediction for a member of the greatest ruling dynasty still In business. Enter, Inevitably.
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  • 77 8 Armoured cars of the Italian Army are lined up at a railway point 40 miles from Reggio Calabria after 1,500 army engineers were ordered into the city to tear down barricades. The latter had isolated the riot-torn city from the rest of Italy. The unrest started when
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  • 374 9 Fifteen members of the militant Black Panther movement, including eight women, have been charged with the murder of a Negro poli eman at their party headquarters at thi weekend. Their total bail was set at U***** 000 (*****,000) when they
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  • 255 9 LONDON Britain's foremost spycatcher, detective Superintendent George Smith, whose investigations led to the arrest of some of the Soviet Union's leading postwar spies here, died during the weekend. Among his successful arrests were the fivemember Porland espionage ring, masterminded by Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale, William John
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  • 96 9 NEW YORK Republican Senator Charles Goodell repudiated by President Nixon and scorned by Vice-Presi-dent Agnew has squashed speculation that he would withdraw from next month's elections. The New York Senator said here in a television programme Sunday night: "I shall continue to stand for election
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  • 74 9 COIXDMBO Ceylon's Finance Minister. Dr. N.M. Perera, announced a compulsory savings scheme which will place a 12 per cent ceiling on all company dividends Dr Perera announced that "50 (Ss24) and 100 (Ss4B) rupee currency notes will cease to be legal tender from November
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  • 101 9 SAN FRANCISCO, The (tolling Stones poo group and others involved in the wild Altamont rock concert held n ear here last December are being sued for U.S. $5OO 000 <S$l,5OO 000) bv the mother of a youth killed at the event. The suit filed in San
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  • 210 9 SAIGON The US. Command said yesterday that Lt. William Calley, who faces court martial in the murder of 102 persons during the My Lai massacre in March IJM>B. has bern granted permission to \isit Vietnam for one week beginning tod iy to help prepare his defence.
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  • 108 9 NEW YORK Burglars took uninsured paintings worth an estimated U*****,000 (*****,000) from a duplex early Sunday morning, but missed another US$7OO,OOO (S$2,100,000) worth of art treasures. Stolen were eight works, including two ficassos, and paintings by Thomas Hart and Jackson Pollock. The theft was discovered by
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  • 358 10 J)R. Goh Keng Swee, Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, has presented a cogent argument that Singapore need not be worried about the affliction of hippie culture, based on drugs and long hair, which Is currently the bane of western society. Somehow related to this sub-culture
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  • 244 10 'PHERE is no doubt that the maintenance of law and order is the responsibility of the government but that does not mean that people should lose their civic consciousness. There has been a lot of criticism lately, especially after the murder of a young brother and sister, that the
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  • 570 10  -  By ART BUCHWALD, One of the complaints the kids voice today is that parents put too much pressure on them. I accidentally listened to such a discussion the other evening at Goldfarb's house. Young Goldfarb, aged 16, told his father he saw no reason to
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  • 655 10  -  By Margaret A. Kilgore, There's probably nothing wrong with South Vietnam that 30 years of peace can't cure. It has taken that many years for this nation of 17 million people to be torn apart by war with hundreds of thousands of lives
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  • 2328 12/13  -  It's like a family doctor Special report By Patrick Killen UPI. MANILA It is a tribute that last year Switzerland joined the bank and this year France. They aren't going to join a crummy outfit. You don't really win friends by sharing
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  • 111 12/13 Members of the Asian Development Bank and the amount of their subscriptions in US dollars: Regional members Afghanistan U.S.$ 4,780.000 Australia 85,000.000 Cambodia 3,500,000 Ceylon 8,520.000 China (Taiwan) 16,000.000 Fiji 1.000.000 Hong Kong 8.000.000 India 93,000 000 Indonesia 25,000.000 Japan 200,000,000 Korea
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  • 211 12/13 The Asian Development Bank opened for business in rented office space in Manila on December 1966. The bank has 35 members 21 regional countries including Japan, Australia and New Zealand which are classified as developed and 14 developed nonregional members. Membership is open to nations
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  • 848 14  -  By Joseph Galloway, T>ALI, the Island of the' Gods, is now in the process of becoming Bali, the Island of the Tourists. For more than half a century a small stream of discerning visitors, students, artists and refugees from modern life have made their way to this
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  • 463 14  -  By Lawrence E. Lamb, M. D. Are you fighting the battle of the bulge? The successful battle plan begins in the kitchen. If ?rou prepare the right oods in the right way, you can cut down on your calories and eat just as
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 578 15  -  By Dick Kleiner, Wild, wild Hollywood, right? 0.K., try this on for wildness. After the premiere of his new NBC show, Flip Wilson celebrated by going home and eating ice cream and cake. Everybody els e on his show went out and caroused It up,
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  • 75 15 NEW YORK: RICHARD RUSH has been presented the Sorrento Film Festival's "Silver Mermaid" award for his direction of Columbia Pictures' "Getting straight." Starring Elliott Gould an. Candlce Bergen, "Getting Straight" was an official festival selection at the recently concluded International event. •Getting Straight" wa s produced by
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  • 130 15 CHRISTOPHER Walken, one of the theatre's most promising young actors, has been signed by producer Robert M. Weltman for his screen debut a featured role In "The Anderson Tapes." Weltman's Initial Independent production for Columbia Pictures. Walen won the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 255 15 Sb SHAW I ISATION L I D O Phone *****4 Today Only! No Free List! U am. 1.45. 4. «:M». #.15 pra 'THE LONG KEAR.S" (A SHAW PRODUCTION) Maooarin to Scone Coiox OPENS TOMORROW! 81dney Poitter Martin Landau "They Call Me Mi»ter Tlbb\!" Co'or (UA) CAPITOL Phonr J9759 I Utt
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    • 232 15 QPGArois ATlOrvj ODEON ***** NOW BHOWING U am 1.30. 4. 0.3#, p.sii William Holden. Jennifer Jones Thing C Scope. Color. IPox) NEXT CHANGE* 'J?*"* O" ..Up The Khvhor" money James in Colour Rant Organisation Picture TOMORROW MIDN lOHTR "Wrath Of The Sword" Mandarin Bhu Pel Pet. Color. Scope (English <fe
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  • WOMEN
    • 662 16 Marianne Pereira tal surgeon and discovers LEE is almost 50. But she looks a lively 30 and even her best friend cannot tell you how she manages to look so young. No bags under for eyes, no crows feet, no laugh lines, no wrinkles
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    • 331 16 On ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls, physicians claimed to have corrected small facial and body defects by little nicks from sharp knives. We don't know for sure how far noses and lip were corrected but there were certainly some experiments. But religious fervour which spread through
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    • 594 16 Take a good look into a mirror tonight. Tired eyes, small eyes, bags under the eyes, wrinkles? Nose as Hat as a frying pan? Thick lips thin lips? Need some hair on top? If you are prepared to live with
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  • 232 17 The fad for doing your own fashion thing is extending to the boots worn with most of these operetta clothes. Many of the young who wear them are decoratin e them with hand painting. The fad started with Latinas, a Madison Avenue boutique which
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  • 278 17 Carrie Snodgress, the young dramatic actress from Chicago who won rave reviews for her recent performance in "Diary of a Mad Housewife" is a perky, pretty product of the younger generation. She wears midls, no make-up and her corn silk natural blonge hair falls nearly
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  • 379 17  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN; I am a girl, 17, who needs your help. Yesterday Mum was supposed to pick me up downtown. I waited for 30 minutes and the didn't come, so I took the bus When I got home Mum was like a raving
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  • 199 17 As conservation interest makes many fursunacceptable in fashion, the accent is on "new" furs which are not likely to be endangered because they come from l more common ani--1 mals. 'Notable this fall is the i use of pony and > calfskin, hair left on, as these skins
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1899 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... tv and radio guide [CARROLL RIOHTER'S from the Carroll Righter Institute GENERA L TENDENCIES: Fixed conditions ot an adverse nature could follow after putting lons-time plan into action. Use extreme caution to avoid delays, obstacles and limitations of an unfortunate nature. Avoid borrowing or lending as payments
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  • Students' page
    • 121 19 The Adult Education Board In conjunction with the Ministry of Education will be holding the Kindergarten Teachers' Graduation Ceremony.c u m-Exhibi-tion on Sat. 31st Oct. at the Teachers' Training College Auditorium at 3.00 p.m. Dr. Lee Chlaw Meng, the Ag, Minister for Education, will give the
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    • 26 19 The Advisory Committee of the Dunearn Becondary Technical School will donate a mlnl-tractor mower to the school on Sat. 31st Oct. at 8.30 a.m.
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    • 208 19 YESTERDAY My mother used to rock me in the cradle; I slept only to the sounds of a sweet lullaby; I woke up always to cry. But yesterday was so full of joy; I really lived and played in glee; Troubles were ever remote and I was
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    • 515 19 Recently, a series of incidents occurred. They left me sleepless, baffled and annoyed. I could not get a wink of sleep due to these things which happened. I hope that nothing like the night will ever occur again. On dashing home at seven-thirty
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    • 295 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE: I'm still shaking. I broke up with Dean a month ago. I gave him back his ring and explained that I didn't want to be tied down. He called every night for the following week and he
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 192 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prire money Is: $lO for Seniors and $5 for luniors tor every essay published All
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 364 20 A note prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. week's 3 rac^'n 9 was on easier side in sympathy with last The market Is still adopting the wait and watch attitude and operators prefer to keep off the market until the extraordinary meeting to be
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    • 106 20 TOKYO, A leading nat.onal dally, the Yomiurl Shlmbun, said yesterday the Bank of Japan would cut Its official discount rate by 025 per cent to six per cent per annum on Wednesday. The Yomlurl gave no sources but said the central bank's decision would
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    • 113 20 JAKARTA President Suharto today Inaugurated a joint Japanese-In-donesian Tetoron textile ■pinning mill worth seven million IT S. dollars at Bandjaran, West Java. The President in a brief speech, called on Indonesians to appreciate and use of home made products. Other people will not respect Indonesian made
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    • 268 20 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and KuaJa Lumpur yesterday at 48-1 8 cents por lb., up 1/2 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. After a nearly unchanged opening the market steadied gradually on
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    • 116 20 flONG KONG Monday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Butrri) (Sellers) 196.5 197.6 per 100 Strait* dollar* 150 152 per 1 OOi) Taiwari aiilar* 6.70 6775 per Australian dollai S40 W per l.(K)( Burmese gyats 515 535 per l.OOn Indian rupees 145 165
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    • 728 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at, the close of business < in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Acitu 131 1.32 Aiimnolo 2.05 2.20 A Iran 148 140 Allied Choc 2.74 lien. 1.03 Ikrjaya 1.12 1.18 BortiM IM 1.87
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    • 887 20 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Alcan $139 (1) $l4O <2)• DIM $l4l (1); Allied Choc. $2 75 (2) $2
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    • 82 20 JAKARTA The Indonesian Rubber Traders Association yesterday denied foreign press reports that Indonesia had been invited to attend a preparatory meeting in Singapore last month to set up an International Rubber Association (IRA). An Indonesian association spokesman said the reports, quoted by Antara news agency, were untrue.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 277 23 MEXICO CITY Jackie Icky o# Belgium, driving a Ferrari, led all the way to win Hie Mawcan Grand Prix here Sunday and finish runnerup to the late Jochen Rindt in the 1970 drivers' championship. Clay Regazzonl of Switzerland, also in a Ferrari, wa« second and New
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    • 267 23 BARCELONA Span, ish star Manuel Santana Sunday scored one of his finest triumphs since winning the 1966 Wimbledon title when he beat world number one Rod Laver to take Spain's first open tennis championship. Santana answered recent criticism that he had lost his
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    • 272 23 MELBOURNE South African Gary Player who Sunday won the Australian Open Golf championship three strokes for a record sixth time said later he "hated tournament play." "You might not believe me but I really hate playing In golf tournaments. I really hate It,"
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    • 93 23 The following is Hie final World Championship Formula One driver's championship for 1970 after the Mexican Grand Prix. Pts. 1 Jochen Rlndt (Auatria> 45 2 Jacky Ickx (Belgium) 40 3 Clay Regazzonl (Switzerland) 33 4 Denl s Hulme (New Zealand) 33 4 Denla Hulme (New
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    • 115 23 NAGOYA, Japan George Archer, 1969 Masters Champion, will be the favourite in Japan's richest golf tournament, The Tokai Classic International which opens Thursday at the Miyoshi Country Club course here. Three other American Pros. Grier Jones. Ken Ellsworth and Jerry He*» 4, have been
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    • 379 23 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados—West Indies crijkd captain Gary Sobers has apologised to Wwt Indian Cricket administrators for any emb*r> rassment he caused by playing cricket in whiteminority ruled Rhodesia. Sobers laid Sunday night he accepted thr invitation to play in single-wickoet competition in Rhodesia because he had been assured
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