The Singapore Free Press, 12 August 1958

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press \!aiaya\s Own Family Paper 1" Vir Singapore, Tuesday, August 12, 1958. Price 15 Ct*
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    Lock icon CYPRUS TALKS: MAC IS HOPEFUL
    149 1 CYPRUS TALKS: MAC IS HOPEFUL MR. HAROLD MACMILLAN, the British Prime Minister, said in Nicosia last night: "I return home encouraged and noi discouraged after my talks In Athens and Ankara." Addressing a Press conference before flying back to London, Mr. Macmiilan said that whatever difficult Uv were involved, two
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    Lock icon TURK CHARGE
    26 1 The parliamentary group oi Turkey's ruling demon.a;: Party last night U! t!ip opposition Republican People's Party of £*tag "to paralyse the legislative apparatus." Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    21 1 fc A first grade rubber a lb., up three■Ml, o, a cent on yester Jft Clos The tone was
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    Lock icon WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL-JOAN
    69 1 WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL-JOAN BRITISH film actress Joan Collins was yesterday named "the most beautiful girl in the world" in a poll taken by the Professional Photographers Society, an international organisation of magazine and commercial photographers. Mr. Gene Howard, president of the society, said Miss Collins was the only woman
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    S'ORE READY TO WATCH FOR MOON ROCKET
    108 1 M\o station has S( up at the 1 Wireless station 1 --.ar in Singapore 'e first rocket to due to be launch Sunday. tation will be man's Wr. Robert Scraf--1 la station man- space Techno Division Ramo-Woolridge !1 which la under thi us
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    Lock icon PROBE OF THUG HIDEOUTS IN FULL SWING
    37 1 PROBE OF THUG HIDEOUTS IN FULL SWING Some suspects to be charged in court today picture After turning in some suspects these Reserve Unit men have a coffee and a breather at a roadside stall Free Press
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    BIG GANGLAND SWOOP GOES ON: 80 HELD
    406 1 fHE all-out war against secret society gangsters in Singapore initiated by the police last night in the wake of mounting violence is still being carried on with full vigour. A police spokesman disclosed this morning that so far 80 suspects have been arrested.
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    Lock icon Strike today
    14 1 Four unions representing Calcutta's tramwaymen voted i-'is* nlttht to strike today. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon JAKARTA DENIES BUILD-UP OF ARMED FORCES
    79 1 JAKARTA DENIES BUILD-UP OF ARMED FORCES AN Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday: "It is absolutely not true to say that there has been any buildup of military forces in Indonesia." He also denied that Dakota aircraft chartered from Garuda Indonesian Airways had been used to carry Indonesian troops. Western
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    Lock icon Princess flying home
    24 1 Princess Margaret took off in a BOAC Britannia from Halifax for Britain last night after hw monthlong tour of Canada. U.P.I.
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    Special powers
    53 1 T*HE Chief Minister's office this morning announced that the Government would introduce at the Legislative Assembly meeting tomorrow legislation to give special powers to the police to deal with the secret society threat in Singapore. The bill will be taken through all stages at tomorrow's sitting on a
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    Lock icon LLOYD SEEKS U.N. ACTION IN M.E.
    333 2 I'd back safeguard against subversion from outside rvilE British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selvvyn 1 Lloyd, called last night for United Nations action to guarantee the Middle East against "subversive elements from outside.' He said: "I certainly have some ideas'* to introduce at the U.N.
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    Employers combine to hit back
    125 2 Employers combine to hit back ROAD transport companies in 11 Western American stales yesterday began a shutdown operation which may ultimately in akc 100,000 men idle. The shutdowns started In i California in retaliation against a strike in the state's Central Valley by members ol the Teamsters" Union for lorry
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    44 2 picture Nine budding chess champions get down to seriou business. Tiny are some of the 45 participants wl are battling to win the Singapore Schoolboys 1 Ches namplonsnips which began yesterday at the Gan En« S«ng school and continue until Aug. 18.- Free Press
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    Lock icon led jets seen near Quemoy
    47 2 Two Chinese Nationalist abre jets met four Chinese :ommunist MIGI7 near juemoy yesterday but no ihols wore fired, the Naionalist Defence Ministry mnounced. Air raid alarms \v ere funded on Quemoy twice yesterday afternoon bin no Communist MIGIT.s near the islands. Reuter
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    Lock icon Red subs on the move
    26 2 Three Soviet minesweepers pa.s.sed through the Bosphorus last night into the Black Sea. They had apparently come from the Mediterranean. Reuter
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    Lock icon Red China as member might wreck UN
    162 2 Red China as member might wreck UN r J\IE United Slates yesterday r< a :i; tned its opposition to the seating of Communist China in the United Nations and said that if su«h an event occurred it might destroy the United Nations as an instrument for the maintenance of international
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    Lock icon Unmanned 'flying eye' for the US. army
    90 2 y^N unmanned "flying eye" which can circle enemy positions and report on troop movements and gun emplacement* has been delivered to the United States Army Signal Corp.s. it was announced in Farmlngdale, New York yesterday Officially called an SI) g combat surveillance drone,
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    Lock icon Now Israel wants guarantee
    107 2 Now Israel wants guarantee MRS. GOLDA m Hr raeli Poreien \T Is who is vis t Sffi« yesterday urged vT^ countries Interested all peace in the Middle Ea 2 should give <>n .A dil the indeVenck ln '^.f die Eastern states At a press conference heM after a day of
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    Lock icon 'NO WORLD PEACE UNTIL PEKING IS UN'
    218 2 T-lIE DATLY HERALD, in an urgent md China should be allowed t<> become ol the United Nations today claimed i settlement is impossible while she is taking her place in the organisation. Under a front-page editorial headlined 'End This Nonsense," the British Labour
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    Lock icon Nepal King in Karachi
    31 2 King Mahendra of Nopal accompanied by Quci-n Raja Ratma Lakshmi. arrived in Karachi yesteraa] by sea after their recent three-weeks state visit t the Soviet Union. Reuter
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    Lock icon Eileen Joyce taken ill
    41 2 Miss Eileen Joyce. th»Australian pianist, la under medical observation, it Was announced In London yea terday. Miss Joyce Wftfl unable |<. appear in a television programme in London last ni^ht She w;i- t^i^n t,. n. nursing home Reuter
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    Lock icon Songstress Shari hopes recording will win over her Sultan father
    186 3 I f)l u UIIL SHARI MAHAL, 20-year-old 1> Indian singer who says her Sultan father summoned her home because she posed in London for a pin-up picture, rushed one of j ui recordings to Bombay yesterday in an effort to
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    Lock icon SHOT BY SOLDIER KILLS OFFICER
    88 3 SHOT BY SOLDIER KILLS OFFICER I lEUTENANT Gene Renu wick, of London died in a German hospital on Sunday "as the result of charge of a firearm by a soldier," a Rhine Army spokesman said in Bonn yesterday. The spokesman said a soldier was under arrest but refused to give
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    Lock icon Astronomers meet
    23 3 ton 1000 scientists •Kg* the loth con- if .the International "<-al Union which Moscow today, the r,Pr>n cy Tasg rc Reuter
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    Lock icon Margaret: I'd like to come back
    179 3 P&INCEBB Margaret in a natlo wide farewell Vision ipeech which was W on television in !l(1 States, said at Wova Scotia, lait the kindness she 'nher four-and-a--our made her a second home She was dto leave by air at n today (Malaya time). She
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    Lock icon Soccer star's plea rejected by Red court
    88 3 THE supreme court of the JL Russian Federation has rejected the appeal of Edouard Streltsov, former Soviet star footballer, against a 12--year sentence for rape and hooliganism, the newspaper Evening Moscow said yesterday. In a brief report under the headline "sentence remains." the
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    Lock icon CRASH: LADY SAVAGE DRAGGED ME OUT
    246 3 CRASH: LADY SA VAGE DRAGGED ME OUT jjJIR Alfred and Lady Savage, survivors of the Viscount air crash near Benghazi on Saturday, arrived at London airport yesterday. Sir Alfred, 53. Crown Agent for overseas governments and former Gover- r of K British Guiana, spoke briefly about the S 1^ 11
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    Lock icon DUKE SENDS QUEEN HIS 'RENT'-A ROSE
    200 3 DUKE SENDS QUEEN HIS 'RENT'-A ROSE THE Queer. visiting Dunoon with the Duke of Edinburgh yesterday was presented with the traditional single dark red rose from the Duke oi Argyll as "rent" paid to the Sovereign for Inverary Castle, his home on the Firth of Clyde. The Duke, hereditary chief
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    What a mess they leave after antispit rally
    142 3 What a mess they leave after antispit rally B SINGAPORE City 1 I Council sweepers worked their hardest day for a long time u yesterday cleaning up P m the litter left by the 50,000 who attend- aed the anti-spitting rally and concert on the padang on Sunday jg night.
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    Those litter louts
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    Lock icon MOTHBAUED SHIPS FOR SALE
    38 3 rPHE U.S. Maritime AdmiX nistration in Washington yesterday put 47 mothballed World War II Liberty ships on the auction block for sale as scrap. Nineteen Liberty ships have been sold since last year.- U.P.I.
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  • Singapore Free Press Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1958.
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      Opinion Now is time to tell
      224 4 Opinion Now is time to tell j rrHE admission by the police that the gangster situation is probably worse today than it was when Operation Dagger was launched in 1956 may not come as a great surprise. But its value Jlies in its frankness and it is an indication that
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    THE SECRET of HAPPINESS
    1002 4  -  ANNE EDWARDS By v^ever before have x^ people searched for the secret of happiness so furiously or fastened so eagerly on what they fee] is the answer ..Give yourself to God ..Give yourself to work Give yourself to me. (Alternatively come and have a drink.) So
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    War of ideas—not of armies
    483 4  - War of ideas— not of armies GUY WINT By WHY are the Chinese so bitter against Tito? They attack him continually and comprehensively, as if they feel that they are engaged in a life and death struggle. Perhaps they really are mortally thieatened. true, China is a huge country, and
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    MOVE TO END DEADLOCK WITH THE COUNCIL
    276 5 Dato S. Q. Wong to be the new president of Royal Island Club? jll ummittee of the Royal Island Club is l ll( to meet today to pave the way for pctiiu a in'" executive which may accept the ngapore City Council's directive
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    ECONOMIST FOR TALKS IN INDIA
    104 5 ECONOMIST FOR TALKS IN INDIA rXC.KI A/IZ, University ™Uj of Malaya lecturer in economic, will attend ■I the tenth International O'i^m Conference of Agricul ■I tural Economists to be ■I held in Mysore, India, I from Aim ust 24 to Sep:ii|| tcinlifi I. W? will leave by air on M
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    Lock icon A restful dav
    24 5 Issued in cape- night on the conj Prime Minister. T n Ji) said: Tn Prime Ministfti* falsi 11 day today." Reuter
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    WAR OF IDEALS. NOT ARMIES
    356 5 Continued from Page 4 political scene. It can bode no good internationally. The reaction is not likely to stop there. China, in attacking Tito for standing aside from the power struggle, has abandoned the pretence that Communism la the champion of neutralism. Hitherto this has
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    Crown Agents end a service
    130 5 rplIE Crown Agents 'ii J. London who had SCJ far been serving the Sin gaporr Government frtf of charge will now levy .1 small commission. The Finance secretary Mr. T. M. Hart, has HOtl tied Assemblymen that the Agents had found t necessary to make
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    Lock icon 300,000 bombed-out Japanese families still live in shacks
    258 5 These citizens of Japan still are living in the huts and bomb shelters they constructed during the war years of 1944 and 1945. The Government Construction Ministry has concentrated in the post-war years on rebuilding the homes of the middle and upper
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      151 6 "iKFF'IIVwKK by Sydney Jordan JTs¥£ MAUTtANS AOVANOEO TECHNICAL I lUWGC TO 5r7 VOU HAVE A Z!X?. S^v2?e^2^2o 1 HbvOlVifaCe ENABLeS THEM TO MASTE& Hi^Jj MO PERAAISSIOW TO TAK6 O*-"F' O»C>e»S TO j VOU TO I [TMg aotJT&OLS op rue sroie+j aj/pc/papt I r w^A retucw immeoiatelv amo »ta^6Ouc suvs Jvs^BiM
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      481 6 |IIIIIIIIMMIIIIIHIIH!CaillllUIUUllMMMilllHKJ|||,i llllH|(^ 11ORN today, you have ibUitv anH S g JJ the confidence to carry ttiroSX S your ideas to a successful conclu R s You are frank and honest in von* convictions and wiU stick up for jlr position against any kind o! opnnli! 5 if tion. In fact,
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      U.K. closing prices
      155 7 LONDON, Aug ll Previous Today IH |R N<>. I l' l \u^ 23 buyei 23 buyei 1 23% seller 23 seller. Btpl 23V. buyers 23 bus. I sellers 23 sellers bitrbfb No. i ,J>> Snol L J bu/tM 23 :t 4 buyers 23 seller.- 23 seller B
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      New York prices
      101 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Previous Today 1 1\ Straits Spot 95.37 nom. 95.37 noni. ii\ futures .a Sit. n(- Contract Sept 94.37 buyers 94.25 buyers 95.37 seller 95.25 sellers Oct 94.25 buyers 94.12 bu\ ers 95.25 sellers 95.12 sellerrOXl Quiet. SALES: Nil RUBBER Futures Sept 28.25 buyers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      34 7 NEW YORK. An- 11 n Previous Today 1 510#13 512 43 2J Railroads 133 HI 133.71 10 Domestic Bonds 89 20 89 16 79.41 79.39 51 ks Composite Averages 175.73 176.25
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      U.S. PEPPER
      57 7 and awaiting afloats 2i\i to ust shipmem i f. Lampong .spo; iting release 27 afloats 27, first half Ausust Uwvc prices quoted i shipment 27. 26% cif. Sarawak .spot27',. Muntok white spo! and, awaiting reiea.se 43. afloats 42 to 40. and first half August shipment 39 sellers, 38
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      97 7 '""'I Philippines c.i.f. I'.K. Nl Hi i uropean ports delivered "'•'^i V^ long ton Aug. Sept. B V Straits c.i.f. U.K./Norlh turopean ports delivered ";uiu pei lon« ton Aug. /Sept. °CONUT OIL crude Straits 11 European ports in bulk !)l 'ong < on Aug. OCON] I
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    RUBBER SHARES HOLD STEADY
    200 7 ALLY firm condi- vailed on the Stock Exchange today with prices mak- er good progress. Oi lower in--1 coupled with advance on wail n response to confidence con'H e American itlook, stimulative buying which a broader seal?. i securities ada d smaU invest: ll but dollar
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    Printing ink factory to open
    168 7 Printing ink factory to open \rouNTiNG ink factory the first <>t it.s kind in Malaya, Is being set up In Miri Road, Singapore, [i Is expected to be ready by the middle of next month. The $30,000 factory which Is being opened by Coates Hint hers (Far East) Ltd. is
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    Police officers due back
    52 7 The two Singapore Polic? inspectors who passed the four and a-half-month training course at the Hendon Police Training College in Britain recently. are expected to return soon They are Inspector Wonj Chek Sung, who came second and Inspector C Bridges who came fifth in the final
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    MORE CARS ON S'PORE ROADS
    188 7 'imie sale o! ears In Singapore i Showing a steady increase. The monthly average for 195'. was 284 curs, the average for the first six months Of this year increased to 369 and the July figure was 450. According bo the monthly statis* tics released
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    Unsilenced cars: A respite
    111 7 THE technical start" of the Singapore Telecommunications Department are too busy with normal duties to start the campaign to detect motor vehicles not equipped with suppressors, the Free Press understands. The detection equipment and a van were obtained from Britain about two months ago. The department
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    Orchids to aid SATA
    83 7 PUBLIC response to SATA's annual appeal for funds had so far been encouraging, said the publicity officer Mrs. Gladys Nicol. Out of the s.ooo' car labels, about half of them have been sold to car owners. "Every member of the public will have a cjiance of
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    Lock icon £117,565 LEFT BY ART EXPERT
    48 7 Sir Herbert Ingram, of Driflield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, authority on Eastern art who j^ave his important oriental collection to Oxford University, left estate in Britain' valued at C 117,565 after 'death duties had been paid. He was 82 when he died las! June. Reuter
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    JAPANESE STAR IN SAR
    35 7 Japanese actress Yoko Tanl quickly adopted the graceful Indian sari whil»> in India making scenes for the film "The Wind Cannot Read" in Which she star* with British actor Dirk Bogarde.
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    Lock icon Adlai in Poland
    23 7 Adiui Stevenson, who to day cnd.-i a five-day vlsil to Warsaw, yest ?rday talki d with Stefan Jedrychowskl, ;nist Reuter
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      98 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 ••> ISINCAPORE 1 |high tides I E TODAY: 8.33 p.m. E E TOMORROW: 10.15 E E a.m. and 9.23 p.m. E E
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      95 7 Todays radio programme 1,10 pm. Radio Music Hall; Signal and Newt; 7.15 Musi 1.30 Time Signal and Ne* i 4.. Magazine; 7.30 Twentj Ques Radio Music n.iii again; 2.00 ttons; 8.00 The Malayanaira Close Down; 5.00. Music from h.w Music and Vei 9.00 Th the Ballet; 5.30 Fiesta; 6.00 Ooon
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    RETURN OF GODDESS
    78 8 RETURN OF GODDESS I THE. Quadriga the i Goddess Vi< tor a m her chariot drawn by four horses will soon be back again in her old familiar place on top oi I the Brandenburg Gate, I Berlin, replacing the Red flag now flying there J Here, the Goddess looks
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    Something to
    52 8 Julie Andrews, star of "My Fair Ml I '.thing to sing about the other after no o •canary, "Mr. Pocket," tcho flew out uf an r I \at the Savoy Hotel ivas returned to fe< I Mr. Pocket, given to Julie durii r I [breaking run in New
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    UNKNOWN
    33 8 King Gustav VI ti m Adolf of Sweden. !,e t I most monarchs. is a K busy man. is, he still nds ti.iß But however busy he for lis own personM I
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    THE FREE AND EASY VETFRAN
    65 8 THE FREE AND EASY VETFRAN E Mr. Dudley Hiscox, I 64-year-old company 1 director of Becken- ham, Kent, a veteran among the competitors 2 in the National Gliding 1 Week on Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire. He flew his own Olympia glider in the competitions. Mr. His- cox has been gliding for
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    Lock icon French kill 562 rebels in a week
    32 8 French troopi killed 502 Insurgents, captured 96, and seized 255 weapons In ope ratlon.s last week in Algeria French military sources said last night Reuter
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      5 1 Eve Tuesday, August 12^ 1958.
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      Lock icon From teak plank to a showroom temptation
      686 1 From teak plank to a showroom temptation THE STORY BEHIND A CAMPHOR WOOD CHEST VEAKLY everyone in this country has either owned a hand carved chest or examined one at some time or another. They arc .so common a -sight that we are apt to forget how greatly such workmanship
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      THAT 'IRD OF PARADISE' HAT
      40 2 The big Paris fashion houses began recently to show the new Autumn and winter hat styles. Here is one of them 'Empire of The Sun" in black tide edged with Bird of Paradise feathers. iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiniiiniuiiiiiniiniitiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiir
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      ...AND NOW COMES
      204 2 YOUNG Yves St. Laurent, wonder boy of the House of Dior, has sparked off o big row in the fashion world. He has dropped his hemline four inches (to about 16 in.) when most of the rival Paris designers hove kept the shorter skirt. Paris is buzzing
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      What a 'let-down' by wonder boy St. Laurent
      381 2 What a 'let-down' by wonder boy St. Laurent gives Us mis lime. ms name for the new line is the Curve and the Curve Is concentrated all on the ton like a toadstool. Whatever he calls it. thii is not the big and beautiful collection we expect from the House
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      Short amd to the point...
      110 2 Short amd to the point. i^OLLEAGUF Eileen IM \J croft reports -M Paris that ash blonH and red-heads haves* len heads this seasoaß Looking ahead, they I through tlv "^M Paris showing next m ter's clothes, their sfl hair styles ■••uiVant afl they were blown up I One of the
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      UNKNOWN
      197 2 PRESENTING the first of the Paris 1 autumn collections that most up-and-coming designer, Pierre Cardin, remained faithful to skirts about 20in. of the ground— unlike St. Laurent who lowered it to 16 in. Waists were indicated, but never accentuated; bosoms accentuated but never, never shown; belts high up under
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      THE CURVE LIKE
      8 3 Joy Matthew. report from Paris
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      Winter on the Way
      39 3 t, a here we come and here is a Paris U n recently at a preview. It is an lentng dance dress in black organdi with a white vported by red roses also in organdi.
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      IT'S BELTS
      131 3 L* ck -tactic pink. A sprinkling of black W touch of green. Ir Fabrics were mohair again and again. m blouses worn with high-waisted lame fch ks for suits with shirred skirts, tor ler Wlttl big shawl collars, for dresses. m showed a collection f 'tipire-line dresses and
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      Lock icon DANGER! DON'T SNEEZE
      91 3 DANGER! DON'T SNEEZE PARIS FASHION de- signers this year i have made a woman look like what she Is. a woman. That's what it all boils down to, when j you review the high- lights of the fall and winter collections from i the designers who l finished their Paris
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      When a sack is am not
      324 3 When a sack is am not j ASKED a typical French dressmaker how she would alter I a sack or trapeze dress so that it had the new 1958 Empire line. Madame Edmee, former head cutter for a big fashion house, made these suggestions: ITO ALTER A SACK DRESS for
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      166 4 Main dishes for in one day TAKING THE DRUDGERY FROM COOKING I HEARD of Mrs. Margaret Thomas, a stained-glass artist, whose main dishes for the week are cooked on one day only. So I visited her in her delightful, newly reconstructed Victorian home in London, where she was incorporating her
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      696 4  -  HELEN BURKE [By Mrs. Szabo 10 cook the main dishes for a week? "Between three-and-a--uilf and four hours, but it iepends on what she h naking." Margaret told lie. "Actually, our menu jets a little thin on the iixth and seventh days, but she generally leaver me a
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      68 4 'Dress the leg' fad started by short skirts picture. With the fashionable higher hem- I line w ith the House of Dior dissenting comes the opportunity to "dress the leg" as well as the foot. i Michael Sherard of London has de- < signed the "Russian type 1 of boot
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      66 9 slipping I the hubub ■court >utine in *ho i puts on I )ld trousers I t and with a Gt idwiches in g I travels to 1' eden's own enthusias- P r cheologists. J fere, with othc feologists he can be I" hands and I h; ng for
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      27 9 Jellyfish warning goes out IV u« from o d harmouth •o-\va' °rtuguew the au warning coast (Done* itlnginH I nuisanceh south t f I ■r> > I ill.
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      66 9 Franco's daughter sets sail The Marquise of <> Villaverde, daugh- J! ter of General Fran- J* co, left the River <> Tyne on the "Brae- t mer" with her hus- band, after a few days' stay in Eng- land. o The Marquis and Marquise were on their way to spend
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      They follow the birds
      90 9 They follow the birds Four Scarborough, Yorkshire, young mm who have spent the summer protecting birds in the Parne Island group <>fT the Northumberland coast, are to follow on bicycles when the birds emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the month They are David. 24,
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      387 10 SURVIVORS OF A-BOMBS OISPROVE EARLY FEARS r j iii 1 Hiroshima And Nagasaki atom iminiis d: not ctoatc dwarfs or freaks. So far Uu.< U no evidence that they li;im affected the growth of children, either physically <>» mentally, These opinions are concurred in by f) th Japanese and American
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      61 10 Japan Is keeping pace H h the United States in preparing for the jet travel age. Mr. Torn Akiyama, Pre Ideni of the Japan Air- j port Terminal Company,' said in Los Angeles. At Tokyo Airport." he 88 Id We arc pushing plans
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      78 10 From (Mr mountain village 01 i-i.an in North -East Formosa to the galleries Of Tokyo. New York and major European iitirs. the paintings of Mr Ran [n-ting nave won admiration and praise for Free China's leading water colour artist. He "as studied and painted in China, Japan and America, Among
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      173 10 RED ARMY REMINDED OBEY THE PARTY |>EHIND the menacing utterances of the Peking leaders stands what is probably the world's biggest army the People's Liberation Army of 2,600,000 to 3,000.000 men It grew from 30,000 troops ot the workers and peasants Red Army whicn struck its first blows on Aug.
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      25 10 a joint committee for economic and technical co- opcrat loi i bel ween in donesla and uvv (irr Ja kari ri Reuter
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      163 10 Laos mission has no useful purpose now BRITAIN supports the view of India *and Canada that the three-nation international commission for Laos, now suspended, has no longer any use tui purpose, according to usually well informed sources in London. The commission (.India. Canada and Poland) adjourned Indefinitely on July 19
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        36 10 Japanese trade fair is to be held in Sydney in January next year. A wide range of goods from machine tools, trucks a nd <a;aymBt»i cars to cameras and textiles will ho mil nn flisnlnv. Reuter
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        21 10 The 28.950-ton Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre formerly H.M.S. Canada -has been sold to tinJapanese firm of Mitsubishi for breaking up. Reuter
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        28 10 The Czechoslovak Communal Party newspaper Rude Pravo. said in Prague that the present world crisis could not be solved Without the participation Of Communist China or India. Reuter
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        78 10 Cambodian Premier Prince Noiodon Sihanouk will pay an official one-week visit on Communist Chinese Premier Ohou Fn-lai this month in Peking. I .P.I. Six Japanese drivers have left Tokyo for Australia to compete In the 10.000 mile round-Australia mo-tor-car race starting on Aug. 20.— U.P.1. Indonesia's Prince Mangkunegoro. who recently
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        28 10 The Siamese Cabinet has appointed Prince Wan Waithayakorn. the Foreign Minister, to represent Siam in negotiations with Cambodia over border problems i" R'l rtfrtrrklr iltla I month.- Reuter
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        31 10 The official u.s. Congressional Record has published an article in praise of Philippines President Carlos P Garcia as ''an outstanding statesman, humanitarian and a devoted servant of the Philinnincfi Revublic." U.P.I.
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      51 10 KISHI IN FRESH BID FOR BAN ON A-TESTS JAPANESE Pi ♦J Nobusuke Ku Tokyo that J paring a new pr< tests. annl Mr. Klshl conference hi. Office was workh new Plan no« final draft has completed. He indicated it would .separate B i, ban t J prohibition or nnpiu« pons.
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      109 10 KERALA REDS REBUFFED BY 2 PARTIES THE leaders of the Praia Socialist and Revolutionary Socialist partie> in Communist ruled Kerala State have rejected a Communist Invitation to join the Red State government. Mr. A. Sreedharan, general secretary of the Kerala P.S.P.. said his party would have nothing to do with
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      58 10 THE Japanese Govern ment has decided tr; give favourable consideration to a request froi Burma ior economic assistance totalling Ms6o mlion. The assistance win w\ bably take the form of > loan In Japanesi yen r rency. Burma will be asked submit a list of the
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      50 10 THE 30-day strike at dia's Tata iteel works the country's largi suited in the lp tons of steel worth ooo.uoo. according es published In K During the chinery and oth worth M$6.O(M troyed, 2,500,000 I lost, four peopl" ed and 15 In figures showed Reuter
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      115 11 ii'iMNK Foreign Secretary Felixberto SerW nl ,o aid in Taipeh that the problem of ■me 'Too overstaying Chinese la the PhilipE!, s vv is Hearing solution. W r told newsmen the Philippines was movI rm iy and courageously" toward a formal Kftlement of the
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      55 11 DO THE STARS GUIDE BIRDS OF MIGRATION? I MIGRATING birds fly by Tithe st aix the London aagazlne "Nature" has uggested. Dr. David Lack, an Oxord ornithologist, wrote hat radar detecting of algratory tlights indicated hat the birds lose their ense ol direction when lying under clouds that lot out
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      137 11 A t(^ MEK Soviet Union intelligence ■n. officer who fled to the West four years ago predicted in Tokyo that the H Russian people would revolt and overthrow the Communist regime within p the next three years. I Mr. Nikolai Kholkov said the collapse of the Communist
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      41 11 Philippine officials in Washington said that four U.S. private banks had indicated they would agree to help tide the Philippines over temporary dollar shortages in its foreign trade, which sometimes amount to r.5.830,000.000 a month U.P.I.
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      232 11 'SPUTNIK'S ROCKET FELL IN OUTER MONGOLIA' AN American scientist told the International Geophysical Assembly meeting in Moscow that the carrier rocket of Sputnik I was believed by American trackers to have fallen in Communist Outer Mongolia. Dr. Robert Jastrow of the U.S. Naval Research Observatory explained how electronic computers evaluating
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      144 11 Plastic valve in dog's heart UNIVERSITY of Wiscm--1 sin researchers announced in Madison that they had successfully planted a plastic valve in the heart of a live dog The research team so id the dog survived the fourhour operation with the artificial valve, which replaced the dog's natural heart valve,
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      14 12  -  SUNNY GIAM Harry K. H. Tan IS by "SAILS AND REFLECTIONS."
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      289 12 MAKE THE MOST OF WEDDINGS IN Some famines tne making of wedding movies is becoming as much a custom as the traditional wedding album. I heard recently of a family which has already collected movies of weddings in two generations. They have much fun projecting the film from the parents'
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      10 12  -  Hurry K.H. Tan '•v "IP THK LADD* r
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      655 12  -  Harry K.H. Tan REMEMBER THAT MONEY DOESN T MAKE PICTURES by QOME people think that a fat bank account spells photographic success. But it is not so. It is not the equipment that counts, but the man who uses it. As long as a person takes
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      328 13  - 'FIRE!' CRIED BILL SLIM Harold Bunting THE FREE PRESS BOOK PAGE By THESE are four funny books. You do not have to take my word for that. Even (heir publishers admit it. In the cold, dispassionate print of the blurbs, the facts are set out for all to see. You
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      754 13 By Apparently a very respectable politician has written a very naughty (and therefore a very successful) play He likes its success, but dreads being traced as its author. So he gets somebody or other to father the thing. There is. of course, a Lord and
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      420 13  - When cars took second place to camels T. R. Nicholson Maurice Smith, editor of Autocar The TRAILBLAZERS. By Cassell. 21s. OROGRESS is usually the outcome of challenge open to everyone but accepted by adventurous few. Many achievements, like the four-minute mile, seemed impossible until someone showed the way; then others
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      190 13 I M.misn i! X Raymond Chandler. rij| »WW} Hamilton, l:»s. 6d. Hired to lowe Plll k llip hr »"«»tto, Philip MardlsappcarinV "mtlgattna th P case of a "•■i«h ihi nirpsr her hehalf. As lowe'! onlv rf har s" hittll| l ever, M;irinabiiitv i V s lfin
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      217 14 -And the name goes on Imie Langrldges, lik< the Parks and the Cornfords, are solid yeomen of the Sussex Weald, thai flat bu beautiful stretch c: England between the North and BOUt h Dow n.s. it i.s the Langridgea i would like to discuss and the service they have rendered
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      42 14 The Soviet athlete Evgeny i Minaev, has set a new world record in the featherweight class of weightlifting. Minaev achieved a twohand press of 118 kilograms, which beat the previous re-! cord of Viktor Kor by halt a kilogram. I
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      231 14 Readers are Up -to -Date! Malaya is the focal point nl South East Asia and nianv people today consider thai this is an area where the future destinies of the w.m Id n ill be. decided. llou much do yo u r Iii•• n d overseas know about Sing
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      41 14 Lady I'da, the wife of the Governor of Penang presents the Gold Cup to iMr. J. Watson, whose horse Couag won the Class 1 Division I—l41 14 miles feature race at Penang on Saturday.- picture. Free Press
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      307 14 'Quit cricket or else' 'PHERE seems to be no end to the bickering in cricket. It is questionable whether the county game can afford domestic squabbles when it has so many urgent financial and playing problems and a diminution of spectator interest. It all started with the Laker reluctance about
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      36 14 The 15th annual junior swimming championships of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association will bo held at the Chinese Swimming Club on Saturday, August 10 at 4 p.m. mid Saturdny August 23 at 330 p.m.
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      137 14 KUTS LEFT OUT OF USSR TEAM VLADIMIR KUTS, the Olympic 5,000 and 10,--)00 metres champion, has seen omitted from the Soviet Union team for the European athletic championships to be held ir Stockholm 1a 1 1 r this month. The form of Kuts thfc year has been disappointing because of
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      438 14  - CUP ROW OVER MAN. UTD. ARCHIE QUICK m It splits U.K. sorter I il TIIK now football season looks like being heralded in with open warfare between the Football Association and the Foothill League, w i t h Manchester Tinted in the middle of the tug-of-war. All the bother \8
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      117 14 THE athletic track on which two world records and dozens of Games records were broken during last month's British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff will be re-laid in Maindy Stadium, where the Games y cling events were held. Maindy Stadium, which may soon be renamed
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        180 14 CLUES ACROSS ade ground (5). „5 1 Parsimonious in the ring 8 Green lad marie Dip" (5-6). 10 Judgment in wo io ■< 7 It's patent when Igo (7). 13 Madden without m'' 9 Such a commotion from this 15 Put Nod around w m^ last irruption (4). wealthy way
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      GOLD CUP CANDIDATES AT K.L. GO FAST ON TRACK
      578 15  - GOLD CUP CANDIDATES AT K.L. GO FAST ON TRACK ALLAN LEWIS by mol'l II I. BLUE. ii jjj| ver Mistress I Hurry Hurry. il, c lluee locally Uuined landidates 0 the H. M. Vang pertuan Agongs Gold < "i' were the main interMl al Kuala Lunipur this morning when the
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      195 15 England may drop Wardle to reconselection of for Bag. tour .ii Australia ie\i Winter. the Yorkshire Committee who 'day sacked Wardle 1 general be. ield and in rooms left desired" w ill on to the W.C.C. 1 discuss the top] ter on August 19. Forks! ire decided yester. aj not
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      153 15 WITH a day left for play, the New Zealanders have a great chance of beating a county side for the first time in almost three months when they resume against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham today The New Zealanders were •set to make 140 for victory 3 l
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      120 15 With one final <\l\- out burst of energy and will-power, the schoolboy (right) i pips the sprint champion. E H happened at the White City Sta- dium, London, dur- inff the athletic match between Bri- tain and the Com- E monwealth. E The schoolboy is
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      466 15 Typhoon bowler strikes for Northants UKANK TYSON, one of England's fast bowlers chosen for the tour of Australia next winter, struck devastating form for Northamptonshire in their county cricket championship match against Essex yesterday. In 18 overs at Well ingborough, firry Tyson captured six wickets for 43 runs to give
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      104 15 Hknk VIBSBR, the Dutch holder or the Europe an 1 1 o n ji Jump record w 111 noi take port in the Europe .n Games, which op i n in Stockholm On Aug, 19 His entry was withdrawn by the Dutch Athletics Federation after b medical
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      290 16 Big procession to palace to renew loyalty pledge A LONG procession of Jordanians from all walks of life wound its way to King Hussein's palace in Amman yesterday to pledge their loyalty on the sixth anniversary of his accession to the throne. Tribal sheikhs, shopkeepers and
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      38 16 Radio Pakistan last nij4ht reported firing from tlv Indian aide on the East Pakistan -Assam border near Sylhet. The broadcast said "loss of life and property" wa3 reported, but gave no details.- Reuter
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      36 16 Marie Dionne, frailest of the four surviving quintuplets, was married to a 38-year-old clerk in Montreal yesterday in a quiet wedding that was a secret even to her own familv U.P.I.
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      124 16 AMERICAN military sources said in Beirut yesterday the withdrawal of one marine battalion from the Lebanon in the next few days was "practically certain." There was no Official confirmation, but the sources &ald the battalion concerned was the Ist. Bn Eighth Marine Regiment,
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      75 16 The Air Officer Commanding, Malaya, Air Vice Marshal V. E. Hancock, inspecting 45 Squadron RAF at Tengah. Singapore, yesterday on the squadron's 10th anniversary of operations against Communist terrorists in Malaya. He is ac- companied by F/L C. M. ft. Webster (right), Commander of "B" division of the squadron, and
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      191 16 COOK (FIRED) STRIPS IN VAIN TO PUT HER CASE pRETTY LADY (TANIA) BRUNTISFIELD entered the kitchen after a dinner party to find her 70-year-old cook standing naked by the stove. Cook had been told she had to go and was pleading her cause with a proper sense of the dramatic.
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      55 16 a viscount airliner took off from Bagdad yesterday for Cyprus with the first planeload of 48 Britons from Habbaniya airbase where they had been marooned since the Iraqi revolution of July 14. The party consisted mainly of wives and children of airmen whose terms in
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      37 16 A mail tram that failed to halt at a station because a signalman forgot to givf a signal smashed Into a New York passenger train yesterday, killing five nennlP and injuring 35- U.P.L.
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      33 16 A Comet IV jet airliner completed nearly four hours of engine noise tests at New York international airport yesterday. The results will not be revealed for at lpast a month.- U.P.I.
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      61 16 Malta would become the "Royal State of Malta" under a new constitution proposed by the island's Pro-gress-ive Constitutional Party. Miss Mabel Strickland, th» party leader, said the party had had discussions in London with British politicians on the constitution it was putting forward for the colony.
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      36 16 Mr. Robert Murphy, President Eisenhower's special Middle East envoy, flew to Paris from London yesterday and had a 90-minute talk with the French foreign minister, Mr. Maurice Couve de Murville. Reuter
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      203 16 Princess's suitor Robin still not talking M HOMF OBIN DOUGLA S- H 9 MEI suit( for the hand or Princess tf2 garetha or Sweden SmE mutual agreement resian, ing his directorship 0 a British publishing arm. The announcement was made by the firm ye.^ter day. it was stated in January
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