The Singapore Free Press, 14 August 1958

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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper BUlfgptM, Thursday, August 14, 1958. Price 15 Cts.
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    LABOUR FRONT PUT OFF VOTE ON LIM PLAN
    128 1 r rHK central committee of the L Singapore Labour Front I which met last night did not a take any decision on the proposal y by the Chief Minister, Mr. Urn Yew Hock, to form a United So- cialist Front. A member
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    RAFFLES PLACE SHOCK BY COUNCIL
    475 1 j 2.30 P.M.-AND NOT j A SPACE TO SPARE j Car park to be flower garden? THE car park in Raffles Place, the busiest shopping centre in Singapore, may be converted into a flower garden with founttUnS A decision to do this has be e
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    Lock icon U.K. GROUNDS SUPERSONIC VICTOR BOMBER -FOR MONTH?
    58 1 U.K. GROUNDS SUPERSONIC VICTOR BOMBER -FOR MONTH? BRITAIN'S crescent-wing-ed Victor jet bomber, largest supersonic plane in the world, has been temporarily grounded by the R.A.F., it was announced in London yesterday. A defect had been found in the tailpiece of one plane but an Air Ministry spokesman said it was
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    Lock icon U.S. TO GIVE $300 MIL. TO BACK M.E. PLAN
    204 1 f !I UNITED STATES is I ./fi'oUod to be willing w advance $300 minion as £> share of the Middle Son V|ll °Pment instituI.': 1 P'-«lH,sed by President SLSKft* Nati ™s General ftss mbly yesterday. emnti A the President M^ v
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    War on thugs goes on: 72 now held
    79 1 War on thugs goes on: 72 now held THE police continued their drive against secret society thugs last night and took three more wanted men into custody. The total now in detention is 72. The operation is continuing. A police spokesman said the suspects were being detained under the Preservation
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    Lock icon Air crash kills 7
    30 1 A U.S. Air Force transport aircraft crashed near the Belgo-German frontier at Saint-Vith yesterday. First reports said all seven members of the crew were killed. Reuter
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    Lock icon Crash plane: 17 bodies found
    51 1 Seventeen bodies of the 33 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Japanese airliner had been recovered from Segami Bay south of Tokyo late yesterday. Coastguard and naval vessels also found 13 plane seats, 20 pieces of luggage and part of the fuselage of the olane.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    31 1 September nrst grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened In Singapore this morning at 8U cents a lb., down five eighths of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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    Lock icon Cyprus: Workers pledge to keep truce
    139 1 Cyprus Workers pledge to keep truce LEADERS of four big Greek and Turkish trade unions in Cyprus met in Nicosia last night and pledged to work for maintenance of the truce in force on the island for the past 10 days. They issued a joint appeal to their members to
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    Lock icon GROMYKO IS CAUGHT ON THE HOP
    500 2 lice plan for M.b. leaves him without ready reply |> R E SIDE N T EISENHOWERS challenge to Russia to join in the economic development of the Middle East appeared yesterday to have caught the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, unprepared. In a
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    Lock icon MASS TRIAL COULD LAST FIVE YEARS-Q.C.
    144 2 MASS TRIAL COULD LAST FIVE YEARS-Q.C. MR. I. A. MAISELS, a Queen's Couti <i. le i;i ing defence counsel the smith African ma treason trial, said in Pretoria yesterday thai 11 conducted on the pro cation's lint., the Cfl I could lust five y tars. Each of the 91 accu
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    Keep up to date with "Tattle"
    100 2 As well as giving complete details of all Radio Malaya's English, Malay, Indian and Chinese programmes, the 8.8.C. General Overseas Service, Radio Australia and All India Radio, your Radio Weekly is full of interesting features on the latest films and "pop" records, reviews of
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    Lock icon WARSAW ADMITS RAID ON A SHRINE
    109 2 WARSAW ADMITS RAID ON A SHRINE J^ SPOKESMAN for the Polish general prosecutor's office in Warsaw accused the Roman Catholic church yesterday of spreading false reports about the July 21 police raid on the monastery of JTasna Gora. The spokesman made the allegations In a press interview. He defended the
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    Lock icon RUSSIA 'JAMS'| IKEAND GROMYKO
    89 2 RUSSIA 'JAMS' IKEAND GROMYKO BROADCASTS to the Soviet region of E E yesterday's General As- E sembly speeches by E President Eisenhower E E and Mr. Andrei Grom- E E yko were both jammed E by the Russians, U.S. E E officials said. E E Last week. Mr. Henry E
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    Lock icon Canada gives Princess gifts worth $600,000
    97 2 pRINCESS MARGARET received about msgoo, 000 worth of gifts during hex month-long tour of Canada, the Canadian Pre.s News Agency said yesterday. The agency Mrid this figure was unofficial as most donors were unwilling to divulge the value oi their glfj The Princess's presents
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    Lock icon PRESIDENT ('I HOPE I DID SOME GOOD') BACK AT GOLF
    109 2 pRESIDENT Eisen- E 1 hower went tv a E E Rolf course from the E White House about an E hour after his return E E from addressing the E United Nations Gen- E eral Assembly in New York yesterday.
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    Lock icon Summit off so K. beats war drum
    167 2 Summit off so K. beats war drum tha tho wiat tne aggressive a/ tions" of Britain and United StaU howed Q the cold war and the a-' race had not yet ended™ He said the governments ol the two Western countria bore responsibility f J the breakdown 01 negotS tions
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    Lock icon HOUSE VOTES TO INDICT GOLDFINE
    142 2 THE U.S. House ot Representatives yesterday voted to cite Bernard Goldfine, industrialist friend of Presidential assistant Sherman Adams for contempt of Congress. The next step would be for a federal prosecutor to decide whether to ask a Grand Jury to indict Goldfine, who refused to
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    Lock icon Ground test for Vanguard
    58 2 ASTATIC TEST of a United States Vanguard rocket's second stace was carried out at the missile test centre at Cape Canaveral, yesterday according to unofficial reports. This usually precedes an actual firing by about 10 days. Two previous Vanguard satellite launching failures have hern blamed on
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      64 2 II 4 l\ li\ W'l I I' f\ r <)n c features o\ Aug. I /tti isiuo: IIAIMU >> ll|\ I I Joync Mansfield talks about SCK. i WK^t Reviews of coming films. mf^ wfot\ Flash Gordon and Steve Roper. ■^^W»3 New Books by Noncy span VmE|^. Wr Jm Great
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    Lock icon MOTHER: WILL SOMEONE TAKE MY BABY? I LIKE ANIMALS
    172 3 MOTHER: WILL SOMEONE TAKE MY BABY? I LIKE ANIMALS asdfasdf -YEAR-OLD mother of two told the magis- at a juvenile court at Hull, England, that she preferred animals to babies id she did not want her month-old baby. The mother and her 59-year-old husband were summoned by the National Society
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    Lock icon AVA ADORES MOGUL SHOES -AND BUYS 1,000 PAIRS
    10 3 AVA ADORES MOGUL SHOES -AND BUYS 1,000 PAIRS sdfasdfa Reuter
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    Lock icon 'Rock was so sullen' — wife wins divorce
    86 3 'Rock was so sullen' wife wins divorce ROCK HUDSON'S wife. >"\ s n a divorce n d U. 5.5130,000 cast] .■';m;;nt yesterday after testified that her husband once hit her "ang* gjtes Pitege- a former airline n-(l-s and Hudson's h.o sai(l tha t her husband was 'Very sullen h wouldn't
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    Lock icon LUCKY ANTHEA FLOWN TO U.K. HOSPITAL
    53 3 LUCKY ANTHEA FLOWN TO U.K. HOSPITAL THREE-YEAR-OLD Anthea Lycett, the "give-away" baby who survived the Benghazi air crash, arrived in London last night. She was flown from Benghazi to have her injuries treated at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Her adoptive father, insurance broker Mr. Michael Lycett.
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    Lock icon IRAQI GOVT. DENIES RIFT
    31 3 Deputy Premier, Abdul Salam Arif, has denied that there us any rift between him and Premier Abdul Karim Kassim in the new revolutionary government of Iraq. U.P.I.
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    PIANO RECITAL
    20 3 Miss Contance Kei-yuen Chan of HOng Kong will give a piano recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall tonight.
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    Miriam—glug, glug—is baby of the year
    66 3 Miriam— glug, glug—is baby of the year Eight-month-old 3liriam Dora Paddy (above) was chosen "Baby of the Year, 1958" at a contest held yesterday at the Capitol Blue Room, Singapore. More than 200 babies turned up for the contest which was organised by Shaw Brothers Organisation in conjunction with the
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    Lock icon DIED IN BID TO WIN 6d. BET
    162 3 A f </ii<d In a bid to S v a6 ?;&t by walking J Clothed across a an taquest at Nottingham- (1 yesterday, fre >! Taylor aged in. Si-year-old Of his girl friend to ins own street "touch a wall on 1 Ude
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    Lock icon Peer steps into row over give-away isle
    271 3 LET ME COMPETE FOR QUIZ PRIZE, HE DEMANDS f OKI) MALCOLM DOUGu LAS-HAMILTON, a former British Conservative VI. P., yesterday challenged the producers of a television puzzle programme to allow him to compete for a small Scottish island the programme is offering as
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    Lock icon 'Apartheid enforced by law is wrong'
    115 3 TTIE Very Reverend DaA vid Porter, Dean of Edinburgh, said yesterday that South Africa "is a very great country, a country where young people ought to go." The Dean told a meeting in Durban: "Where apartheid is spontaneous and willing it is perfectly natural.
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    200-PASSENGER JET IN 3 YEARS
    139 3 TTANDLEY PAGE, British aviation firm, said m 1X London yestc-rday they were planning to have a jet transport and civil airliner— capable of carrying more than 200 people at 545 m.p.h. flying within three years. The new plane, the Treble-One, is being designed primarily as
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    Lock icon Officer shot after ten days in Aden
    42 3 Officer shot after ten days in Aden A BRITISH officer who was shot dead at Kirsh in the Western Aden Protectorate on Monday ha.s been identified as 35-year-old Major Denis John Smith. M.C. Major Smith arrived In Aden on Aug. 3. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press Thursday, Aug. 14, 1958. Opinion Hideouts in S'pore
    205 4 ANE of the lessons learned during Opperation Dagger was that, as soon as the gangs realised that the police were determined in their efforts, they split up and scattered. Many of them sought refuge in the Federation. Others
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    The big debt Pakistan owes to its women
    729 4 by a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PAKISTANIS in Sin- gapore will today Join their countrymen all over the world in celebrating their Independence Day. it is still the! r proudest clay of the year although th c main celebrations were held on Republic Day,
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    AN ATTIC INDUSTRY IS RAKING IN FANTASTIC PROFITS
    408 4  - AN ATTIC INDUSTRY IS RAKING IN FANTASTIC PROFITS Alexander Kenworthy by A TUEJBY little animal costing £8 an ounce is putting hundreds of pounds into the pockets of middle class housewives and their husbands in Britain. Cages are being installed in spare bedlooms, attics, and garages to cash in on
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      14 4 Lovely DIAMONDS in [platinum RINGS. I U.S.deSILVA Jewellers 106, ORCHARD RD., SINGAPORE Telephone *****
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      93 4 Cabinets offer complete hß^ ranse of unjts for KtiM tiling correspondence, -I^^^^^^^^ cards, drawings, ■ipy Bbw «p X-rjy films, etc. The double door B^«i cupboards are available I^^HWMPt J^V W > In several different sixes. I v The doors are strongly I reinforced the full ff^i^^^^^t^ B height to prevent
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    BIG ATLANTIC RACE ON FOR 'PURE-JETS'
    237 5 BIG ATLANTIC RACE ON FOR 'PURE-JETS' iilio li t0 be the first to lly P Ul<l> jet airliners aver the Atlantic Br itain 01 the l\S.? The race is between BOAC's Comet 4's and Panimerican AirwajN bi ff Boeing 7O7's. Both typea arc expected to be rlying on the North
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    Lock icon MARILYN HAPPY AGAIN
    30 5 P'Ullir Marilyn Monroe, at work at the SfiWS on the film m%& »»">" work mis waj because T1,,,,,,. wading 1,,. l(> 'T<'fsoti on sJS? hasif U. P. I.
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    Classical dances
    19 5 "on of Indian ICI will be Kiven fdeto] Ghma«al on August 22 v being sponllifl Indian Fm.-
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    ISLAND CLUB CALLS GENERAL MEETING
    121 5 rpHE committee of the Royal Island Club which met on Tuesday night has decided to call a general meeting of its members on September 2. The Free Press understands that the present committee has decided to carry on till then pending the election of a
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    Lock icon DOUGLAS HOME OFF TO KENYA
    34 5 Mr. Robin Douglas Home suitor of Princess Margajretha of Sweden, left London by air yesterday for Nairobi. Kenya. On the passenger list he was booked as "Mr. Home" Reuter
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    MARRIED AT REGISTRY
    49 5 Smiling for the cameraman after their wedding at the Singapore Registry are Mr. Wee Hoon San, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Wee Kirn Seng, of Singapore, and his charming bride Shirley Yap Chye Lan, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yap Chai Chuan ol Klang.
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    Brigade is all out to raise $550,000
    180 5 Brigade is all out to raise $550,000 THE St. John Ambul--1 ance Brigade is making an- all-out effort to raise $550,000 highest target any organisation in Singapore ever hoped for during its Appeal Week which starts on August 23. The money will be used mainly to complete the brigade's new
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      185 6 mm MM fl| H| flfl |H flk JH; f| flt f§; |B H Hi SB B JEFF HAWKE by Sydney Jordan I YOU WU|fi| jai lAQftiuA jr^ yV/VfT WAfT/ TMII^SS I i>igm*cbt r-**mr* 9dm c^*+**m^ j i SAW I HfcATO of TMEiC MVf^WOTIC CON TOOL >I AXIIII AM] by Lee
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      465 6 T>OKN today, you have a nucnel S personality which attract* p f o ,'i c Eto you wherever you go. Althm, h S you are sincere and kindly, you in E have a rather inquisitive nature E are always wanting to know E "why" of everything. s You may have
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      U.K. closing prices
      191 7 LONDON, Aug i:i Previous Today iIBBtK 23 7 buyers 23 '•> buyers N'"'"' 1 s 24 seller 23* sellers S. t .pt 23 r^ buyers 23 buyer* 24 .sellers 23 's sellers tlial ll n,, i KSS Spot 23 buyers 23 H buyers hIBI 24 sellers 23
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      34 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 13. v i a FreTl«» Today jniidustnab 608.19 509.22 ]0 Railroads 132.29 132.43 41 Domrstic Bonds 5».03 86.96 Jft* 111 1 79.19 79.24 Stocks Comporite Averases 174.88 175.15
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      New York prices
      98 7 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per It* NEW YORK. Aug. 13. Previous Today TIN Straits Spot 95.12 nom. 94.75 nom. TIN futures StMit> Contract Sept 94.25 buyers 93.87 buyers 95.25 sellers 94.87 sellers Oct 94.12 buyers 93.75 buyers 95.12 sellers 94.75 sellers TOM Quiet. SALES: Nil
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      U.S. PEPPER
      85 7 Malabar spot 27H, awaiting release 27%, afloat* 27% to m first half August shipment 26-,. 27 to 27tt c and f. Lam« gag spot 274, awaiting release spot ex-Singapore 26 to -6; seller cif New York), afloats 27 U to 26 X. first half August shipment 26%, 26
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      87 7 OPR\ Philippine. cJ.f. U.K./ North European ports delivered nApR I pfr on n Au*./Sept. LOPBA, straits c.l.f. U.K./Nortta European ports delivered fO(ON T OIL crude Straits MJ. Kuropean ports In bulk Pei lonu ton Au«. C^ONOT oacn.de" Ceylon f^f. Kuropean ports In bulk pfr lon ff
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    THEY'LL KNOW GRANT TOTAL TODAY
    191 7 XT ANYANG University will know today how soon it is going to get financial aid from the Government and how much. Ten members of the unl versity's council. including Mr. Tan Lark Sye, its chairman, will meet the Minister of Edu cation, Mr. Chew Swee
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    187 7 pRICEb on the London btock Exchange yesf^y steadily advanced jjg the close was very «flte#2P? btt WwjF teas fl it h JWardinq today's indhJPK ra e decision X^of further credit liSl&rtM .^curltles atwound the best levels of issues were *jm toroign rials were firm
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    Photo show is planned for Students Week
    81 7 Photo show is planned for Students Week A PHOTOGRAPHIC exhibition of students' educational and recreational activities will be held al the Chinese V.M.C.A. in conjunction with the Ctudents Week from Aug. 23 to 31. The week will open with a lecture on "Youth" at 7.30 p.m. on Aug. 23. Next
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    SCOUTS CAMP
    24 7 The Governor, Sir William Goode will open the All Singapore Boy Scout Patrol Camp at Jurong Park at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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    Curb on imports to safeguard rice stockpile
    222 7 Curb on imports to safeguard rice stockpile rpHE Singapore Government has temporarily stopped the import of rice intended for re-export to neighbouring countries in order to protect its stockpile. Permits will be given only for rice imports for local consumption provided merchants agree to buy one ton from the stockpile
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      58 7 3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII& i SINGAPORE 1 HIGH TIDES E TODAY: 10.50 a.m. E 10.08 p.m. E TOMORROW: 11.23 E a.m. and 10.51 p.m. E SATURDA\: 11.56. a.m. E and 11.35 p.m. E E SUNDAY: 12.30 p.m. S MONDAY: 0.19 a.m. E and 1.03 p.m. S TUESDAY: 1.05 a.m. E and 1.39 p.m.
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      96 7 Todays radio programme 1.15 p.m. Lunchtime Concert; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Men Only; 2.00 Close Down; 5.00 Calling All Hospitals, presented by Maisie Conceicao; 6.00 Toy Town; 6.30 On the Beat; 6.45 Lights On; 6.53 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal and News; 7.15 The
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    PUTTING NEW LIFE IN SOIL ON SNOWY MOUNTAINS
    563 8 PUTTING NEW LIFE IN SOIL ON SNOWY MOUNTAINS asdfasdf Workers here «ive an eroded ridge a protective cover of asphalt, fertiliser and seed. The ridge is expected to respond soon to treatment and become "green" again. JuIOUNTAINS, like men, sometimes go bald, but with mountains it is called erosion. In
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    US experts see the 'Swallow'
    124 9 US. air experts, look- ing for likely projects in which to invest dollars were shown secrets of the Swallow, the revolutionary folding-wing bomber, at Vickers works, Weybridge, the other day. Dr. Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the plane, which is designed to travel at 1,800 miles
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    49 9 A lona way from the African terrain they hare made so familiar to British television viewers, wild life photographers Armand and Michaela Denis still manage to find unusual friends. Here they are with Jack, an orang utang they met durina a visit to Bristol Zoo.- picture. Reuter
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    Fame comes to 'the Duchess' from the brush of an artist
    190 9 Fame comes to 't he Duchess' from the brush of an artist Five years ago, when young Barbara Smith of Walthamstow, London, went to her I first dance, they nicknamed her "The i Duchess." Now she is almost on a par with Famous society painter, Nicholas Egon, has chosen Barbara
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    MURDER HAS THE LAST LAUGH
    2596 10  - MURDER HAS THE LAST LAUGH PELHAM GROOM Another Latiff story by lALAT'S escape from custody cad made headline. J that day. Lulut had a habit of making news To begin with there wab an impishness about him A/hich made one forget that he was a thief and look upon him
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    No. 45 squadron faces a dual challenge in fair defence
    404 11 No. 45 squadron faces a dual challenge in fair defence A VITAL ROLE IN FAR EAST STRATEGY I ED by its Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader C C. Blount, No. 45 Squadron paraded at its base, R A.F. Tengah on Monday with its Squadron Standard before the Air Officer Commanding Headquarters
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    THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ERA
    360 11 THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ERA Shades of the past No, 4 5 Squadron's Venom fighters parade here for their 40/// anniversary tn 1956 while bused at But I cn i orthi Alter i he paradi ai Ten* an h. f he reviewing officer Air Vice Marshal Hancock, AOC No
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    Lock icon 'PROBLEMS FACING ASIA BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT'
    585 12 'PROBLEMS FACING ASIA BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT' rrHE Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Aiichiro Fujiyama, writing in the Tokyo "Diplomatic Review," said many of the newl> -risen Asian countries had adopted a position of "so-called neutrality* 1 in their foreign relations. This was, to some extent, due to a reaction to having
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    Lock icon A more independent policy may emerge soon
    466 12 A more independent policy may emerge soon rpHE London Times said Japan had been content in the past six years to be "Asia's good child," seen but not heard "except as an exponent of thriving Asian trade and development, the uncommitted entrepreneur of. the Asian scene." This independent newspaper suggested
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    45 12 The American Junior Red Cross presented 54 gift boxes to the Junior u»^ 7\ •of the Mary Immaculate Convent at Tudella, Ceylon, Mrs J. L RoiHi li? 1 0 j the acting director of the U.S. aid mission in Ceylon, is seen nukinl thj i
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      Lock icon Indonesian tongue suitable tor science
      83 12 Indonesian tongue suitable tor science PROFESSOR Sard j i to, president of. the Indonesian national scientific congress in Jakarta, told the congress that the Indonesian language had been proved quite suitable for scientific use, the Antara news agency reported. A foreign scientist had even declared that Indonesian might become a
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      28 12 India's Minister for Commerce and Industries. Lai Bahadur Shastri, said in New Delhi that, even with assistance from abroad some further reduction of imports might be inevitable Reuter
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      13 12 The population of South Korea now stands at just below 22 million. U.P.I.
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      21 12 A group of Laotian educators is now touring the Philippines to study U.S. s p on sored commu nity education U.P.I.
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      16 12 The Library Association America: will University oj Ra estoU^ modi for its school i. studies. U.P.I.
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    66 14 SPEED ACE ON THE CIRCUIT TAKES A CORNER This is John Surtees, reigning world motor cycle champion in the 350 cc and 500 cc classes, takes a bend at speed on the Dundrod circuit near Belfast. Surtees has this season scored 'doubles" in both the Dutch and Belgian Grand Prix
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    42 15 Kosel Kamo ol Japan brat John Cranston (United states) 6-5, 7-r> In the third round of the Newport (Rhode Island) i,awn tennis tournament yesterday Other third round winners Included AH trallans A hley Cooper and Mai And<T>on Reuter
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    153 16 Blaze ruins $9 mil. hotel A SPECTACULAR fire rv swept through Eviafi les-Baines' Royal Hotel [S Lake Geneva yesterday and forced 250 member* of Internationa] societs to flee in their pyjamas aim night clothes. The top two storeyes ol the six-storey building wen destroyed before the
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      A MOVING SAGA OF LIFE IN THE RICE FIELD
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      43 1 •fl oni L thc film a tcr fhc SCI w i!l his collapsed «md the sea pours Q°a fhe family rice fields. Through the desolation drifts a raft. lf Silvana Mangano and her screen mother. |o Van Fleet.
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      9 2 With film lover Alida Valli
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      10 2 With film mother Jo Van Fleet
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      704 4 CONTE WAS JUST A DRIFTER UNTIL FATE TOOK A HAND pHRONICLERS of the Broadway legitimate theatre would ha vino trouble in identifying Nicholas Peter C-onte as the star or to-star ot many stage plays. However, when Contc went to Hollywood he dropped 'Nicholas Peter*
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      298 4 DYNAMIC DINO, PRODUCER WHO REFUSES TO LET UP Portrait of an artist |\INO DELAURENTXIS, producer of -This Angry Age," began his career in films in 1940 when he and a group of friends from the college where he was studying pooled the little money they had and bought a disused
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