Eastern Sun, 25 December 1966

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    25 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 160 Sunday, December 25 1966. ■fr MC(P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • Article
    Lock icon Razak praises Armed Forces
    166 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Tun Abdul Ra--7.1k. yesterday attended the Malaysian Armed Forces Koran Reading (i'mpetition held at Port Pickson Garrison. The Garrison parade square was turned into a dutiful and well lighted rround, with a three Mnanzkabau-style Mala-
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    Lock icon FIRE RAZES FEEDMILL
    398 1  -  Big Xmas Eve fire cost By Hoo Ban Khee PETALING JAYA, SEL. Sat: FIRE broke out in the heart of Pefaling cum-godown of the Zephyr Feedstuffs Limited, today. Property damaged has bee JfVi THE blaze started at 5.30 a.m. Five thousand tons of animal feedstuffs were reduced
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    Lock icon Merry Xmas everywhere
    150 1 LONDON. Sat. It was a more-than-ever Christmas for most of Europe. In England, people spent more money than ever before. according to the bank's figures on the issue of banknotes. In Paris, the stores were better decorated and more of them showed the Christmas spirit this year.
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    Lock icon Christmas reunion for Bertha and her 5 children
    282 1 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Sat. (UPI) 'Nothing, nothing in this world can keep me away from my babies again. Mrs. Bertha Frady Holder, (44) cried as she hugged four of her five children for the first time in 22 years during a Christmastime
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    Lock icon Merry Xmas for 4,000 teachers
    238 1 MCAR. Sat. AH the 4.000-odd trainee teachers of the Regional Training Centres in Johore will he able to celebrate the Christmas and New Year with a light heart after all. All of them have been paid their December allowances and part of their travelling allowances
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    Lock icon MICKEY'S 6th DIVORCE
    54 1 LOS ANGELES Sat. Mickey Rooney's sixth wife filed for divorce against the chunky little actor yesterday Margaret Rooney. 4d. said since their marriage three months ago. the 44-vear-old Rooncy subjected her to "great mental and physical suffering Her attorney. Ralph Miller. said she will seek temporary support
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    Lock icon Number one task: Racial harmony
    249 1 KUALA LUMPUR Sat. Racial harmony is the number one task for all Malaysians for 1967 and for all tim e, the Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari said this evening. In a TV and radio message to all school children. he said: "You will
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  • Article
    Lock icon Tunku: We're willing to co-operate with S'pore
    396 2 CURRENCY EXCHANGE SINGAPORE, Sat. The Malaysian Premier, Tunku Abdul Rahman today re iterated his Government's willingness to cooperate with the Singapore Government on matters of currency exchange. The Tunku was addressing a press conference shortly before his departure for Kuala Lumpur in a
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  • Article
    Lock icon Excellent meat roaster
    94 2 SINGAPORE. Sat.—lf you want a roaster that turns out excellent roast chicken, sizzling steaks., and crunchv toasts, you will want to do it the best way with the new National Meat Roaster. For any member of the family who likes their steaks either medium or well done,
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    Lock icon Rotary talk
    39 2 SINGAPORE. Sat. Mr. Greightor. Burns, an overseas correspondent here, will address the weekly lun .con meeting of the Rotary Club of Singapore on Dec. 28 at the Princes Hotel Garni. His topic will be "In Retrospect 1966."
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    Lock icon Christmas celebrations in Singapore hit new high
    364 2 SINGAPORE, Sat. Christmas is being celebrated with a ''bigger bang" than in previous years in Singapore. With only a few hours to go before the traditional Christmas Eve celebrations, most of the big departmental stores were still registering briak sales despite the heavy
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    Lock icon Appeal cable from S'pore Sikhs
    188 2 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Sikh community In Singapore has asked the Indian Government to intervene in the fasting by Sikh leaders in Punjab. A delegation led by Mr. Berseak Singh. President of the Central Sikh Temple, Singapore, this morning handed over a cable of appeal to
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    Lock icon Premier Lee's X'mas Message
    127 2 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, in h;s Christmas Message, reminded the people that "tolerance and understanding of the religious and social practices of each other forms the cornerstone of each other's continued wellbeing." "As Christians celebrate Christmas with non-Chris-tians joining
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    Lock icon S'PORE-THAILAND REACH AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT
    94 2 SINGAPORE, Sat. —An agreement on air services between the Republic of Sing O p 0r; and Thailand was reached today following rJ days of negotiations between the delegation of the two countries in Singapore. This agreement w able Malaysian Airway; Thai International to nue to
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    Lock icon Interpreters' Union hits back at M.P.
    224 2 SINGAPORE. Sat The Singapore Inter, prefers' I'nion todav hit back at allegations mad# against court interpreter* by the MP for Mountbatten. Mr. N Yeow Chong. during a rerent Parliament session In a signed letter to Minister for Law anc NV tional Development v- W.
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    Lock icon Intestate Succession, Companies Bills
    287 2 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Select Committee of Parliament on the Intestate Succession Bill and the Companies Rill are inviting representations from the public on these two Bills. The object of the Intestate Succession Bill is to make provision for the distribuion of intestate estates, other than the
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      86 2 SINGLE STOREY TERRACE HOUSE Prices from $12,800 upwards Cash or instalment Is available PHASE 1: Construction completed. Ready for occupation. PHASE 2: Construction will be completed before June 1967 Ml as rCm mm \V m Batn Hew garden 1» residential area ideal fnr peare Invinc people. It is situat*near Rata
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon The Queen Mother was like a mother to me
    1746 3 Whats it like to wait on Britain's Royal Family' W? a s uee T? Ellzabeth li *e With her hair down' What's life REALLY like backstairs at Buckingham H?r l3 years. Patrick Taylor served r* Majesty s first iootman. literally waiting
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      818 3 The Man.... WITH THE MEMORY! IT IS EASY to understand why Sydney memory-specialist Mr. W Longford-Penny is in such popuIcr demand as a guest speaker. fcr most people are interested Sn learning about their memory. What really intrigues his oudtences, however, is LongfordFenny's rother amazing demonstrations of his own memory
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  • CHRISTMAS DAY STORIES
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      Lock icon Xmas tree first came from the Upper Rhine
      998 4 IN its present gar.l it hails from the Upper Rhine. ORIGINATING in Germany, the Christmas tree has spread far and wide across the world, and nowadays it form? the chief attraction of the most beautiful FeastChristmas in Germany. And yet neither Goethe
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      Lock icon Australia celebrates Xmas with feasting, gift giving and good cheer
      1450 4 MELBOURNE, SAT. Christmas in Australia is Christmas in the sun often a very hot sun with temperatures soaring round 100 degrees Fahrenheit and the air shimmering with heat instead of sparkling with frost as it is in so much of
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      Lock icon Christmas is celebrated over three days in Indian villages
      836 4 CHRISTMAS in India is as gay an affair as an other festival in this ancient land where almost a religions of the world have found acceptance and ar« regarded with a reverence rare in this highly sceptical century. Traditional customs give
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      Lock icon X'mas would not be the same without a tree
      912 5  -  By: E. Chisholm Thomson CHRISTMAS in Britain would be unthinkable without hnstmas trees. Sparkling with lights, abloom with delicacies, the Christmas tree is found everywhere in the country at this time of the year, in London s busy Trafalgar Square the
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      Lock icon British doctors to make health films
      187 5 Br.tain's doctors in coJperation with the life as-j-ranee associations are to health films. The -"st one. scheduled for early next year, will probably be on the dangers of obesity. As an initial move in financing the film project, the British Medical Association and the
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      Lock icon Oral drug treatment for arthritis
      184 5 Three British scientists believe they have developed an oral drug treatment that controls rheumatoid arthritis and osteo-arthritis. The team responsible for the development is headed by Dr. E. C. Bart on-Wright, a consultant micro-biolo-gist. The others are Dr. William Elliott, consultant physician at a London
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      Lock icon COOKING TERMS A GLOSSARY OF COMMON
      67 5 Julienne: a clear vegetable soup of vegetables cut into match-shaped strips and cooked in a meat broth. K kebab: pieces of lamb and ▼arlous vegetables thread- Ed on a skewer and roasted. L to lard: to insert strips of fat or bacon into meat,
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      Lock icon Christmas tree means much to the people of Britain
      714 5 LONDON, SAT. TO the people of Britain, a tree laden with presents and gaily coloured lights is one of the chief symbols of Christmas a symbol, especially, of the good things that are to come with the turn of the year.
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      349 4 ■ISIIUBEiEBBBaM 8U T AS THE STARTLEP CLERK MEETS THE PfEßClwe GAZE OP THE "BLINP' MAK. WH- THAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?..MY HEAP 16 SPINNING 1 I'M SETTING PtZZY/ V V V 3 t ANP 47 THIS PRECISE MOMENT in the palace serpen m j* I HELPLESSLY THE MAN STARESTRANS" FIXEP A
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      101 5 FLIGHTS RESUMED THROUGH SINGAPORE FOR THE PRESENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:WESTBOUND SINGAPORE UNITED KINGDOM OF 737 FROM DEC. 29 NORMAL TIMINGS •OF 741 FROM DEC. 31 AND ROUTINGS QF 731 FROM JAN. 2 ALSO CALLS KUALA LUMPUR EASTBOUND KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA •OF 732 DEC 29 ONLY QF73B FROM DEC 31
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      280 6 4JajMA3arbera's you LOOK LB6S Tf a /TTHIS TURKEY GETS MOPE ATTENTION THAN X OO/ s m *r 9i ife 3*5 I A DOUBLERICH, CHOCOLATE SUPREME, TRIPLELAYER CAKE... I HOPE you V LIKE IT/ B /•> S3 a k a 1 22=?S see 1 e AK >•>•£' tfti «ex> j e»ee*
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      150 7 a runny nose is no joke! Every time your runny nose makes you sneeze someone else may catch your cold. That's no joke. And a runny nose gets red and sore. That hurts. Don't suffer. Don't let other people suffer from your cold. Control it, right from the start, with
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      276 7 MAWTFI-TZARBERA'S S®Mo: 0 I JUST HOPE THE MODELS INSIDE ARE HALF AS V AS THOSE MODELS- V OUTSLDBI^—^Y F RED/ ;t m THAT WAS A PRETTY SNAPPY REMARK FDR AN OLD [CLUNKER.' YABBA DABBA ALL I HEAR THIS IS "THE YEAR THE 1 AUTO INDUSTRY PLANS TO MAKE THE DINOSAUR
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    Lock icon TIME TO RETIRE
    429 8 FROM the look of things In Indonesia the new year is liable to be a most uncomfortable fear for President Sukarno. New forces are gathering strength and Indonesians are growing disconcertingly frank in their criticisms of their one-time idol of the revolution, with whom they have become
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    Lock icon HIGHER FEES
    326 8 PARENTS who send their children overseas for higher studies have to expect higher costs of maintaining them there. Too many overseas students are flocking to Britain to enter colleges and universities, and they are taking up the place intended for British students. Probably as a measure to stay
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    Lock icon Mao's thoughts: Clues to the enigma of Red China
    1754 8  -  Political power from gun barrel By: ALINE MOSBY United Press International DOES Red (*hina want world war? Will it challenge the United States militarily in Vietnam? Would it ever go to tear against Soviet Russia? These are only a fete of
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
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      Lock icon 'Strathbrora' launched
      125 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. "Strathbrora." second of three ne w 21-knot. 14.000ton super cargo liners being built in Japan for P O's Far Fast Europe freight services. was launched by Mrs. Reynolds. wife of Mr. K. Reynolds, a Director of P&O Lines Management Ltd.. on Thursday. Dec. 15, at the
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      Lock icon Industrial expansion attracting foreign investments to Brazil
      246 9 EW YORK, Sat. (AP) Vast natural resources, economic growth and Industrial expansion are attracting increasing foreign investments to Brazil. Recent new discoveries of oil In the states of Sergipe and Bahla as well as vast deposits of lignite In the Upper Amazon basin
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      Lock icon Bridgestone motor-cycle for local market
      196 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. A new model Bridgestone motor-cycle with twice the power of the existing machines has been introduced in Singapore and Malaysia. It is the Bndeestone 175 c.c. dual twin, with a specially developed Jet Lube oil injection system which eliminates the necessity of premixing
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      Lock icon Canada, S. Korea sign trade pact
      119 9 OTTAWA. Canada, Sat. (AP).—The first trade agreement between Canada and Sr ;th Korea, opening a new r arket for Canadian gram and forest products, was signed here yesterday. The two countries, which have had limited trade ties will reduce their tariffs to the level
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      Lock icon SPITFIRE FOR 'WITH-IT' PEOPLE
      49 9 LONDON. Sat. Very Jnucn an "In** car in the V.K., Europe and the U.S.A., i? the Triumph Spitfire. Named "Best G.T. Sports Car costing under $25,000 in the U.S.A.", the Spitfire received the nomination from the annual nation-wide ballot conducted by Car And Driver magazine.
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      Lock icon New tablet called Chlorella
      161 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. A new tablet, called Chlorella. which serve not only as an auxiliary food and general tonic but also for healing intractable wounds has gained recognition in medical practice because of its therapeutic and prophylactic versatility. The tablet, manufactured by Chlorella Industry Co. of Japan
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      Lock icon Tin price
      15 9 SINGAPORE, Sat. The tin price for today was $604 per picul, up $l-7/8.
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      Lock icon Motor industry has largest share of natural rubber output
      362 9 LONDON. Sat. (AFP). Commenting on the continual drift of the London Rubber Market at low price levels, the Commodities Review of the "Financial Times" today writes that the chief influence at work in rubber values, particularly so far as Western Europe
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      Lock icon HK quotations
      30 9 HONG KONG, Sat. (UPI) —money quotations: HK55.7175 per US dollar for cash. HK55.***** per US dollar for T/T. HK $15.99 per pound sterling. HK5266.875 per tael of gold
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      Lock icon US economy: No sign of alarm
      246 9 NEW YORK Sat. (UPI). As the year drew to a close the gentle downward trend in U.S. economy continued. providing more arguments against any tax increase next year. But here was no sign of alarm. The official descript on of the situation, bv the
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      Lock icon Increase in volume of business
      110 9 LONDON Sat. (AFP). More than .8 sterling worth of new overseas trade business was financed during the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 1966 by Exporters' Refinance Corporation which provides credit facilities for exporters and importers of Britishmade capital goods, the annual statement of the corporation
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      Lock icon SWEDEN'S FOREIGN TRADE
      88 9 STOCKHOLM. Sat. Sweden's foreign trade in October showed practically unchanged figures compared with September. imports totalling Kr. 2,028 million and exports Kr. 1,860 million. The trade deficit was thus Kr. 169 million as against Kr. 152 million in the preceding month and Kr. 165 in October last
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      Lock icon Rubber mart quiet
      246 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. The seasonal and traditional slowing-down made itself felt during the week's trading. says Holiday. Cutler. Bath Co. Ltd. in their market report. The market ruled generally very quiet and lost ground on balance with continuing pressure on nearby becoming more emphasised by diminishing overseas support
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      Lock icon ORDER BOOKS OVER FLOWING
      79 9 PARIS. Sat. (AP) The French Shipbuilding industry, which has been in periodic trouble in recent years, yesterday announced that its orderbooks are overflowing. On Oct. 1, the orders totalled 119 vessels with a capacity of 2.294.000 tons. A year earlier 128 ships were on orc/T. but
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      Lock icon Bank rates
      57 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today they were: Canada: Buying T.T. 353/8; Airmail O.D. 35-1/2; 90 d/st. 36-1/6 credit bills; 36-1/8 trade bills. Selling T.T./O.D. ready were: Canada 35-1/16: Deutsche Marks 128-5/8: Holland Guilders 117-1/4; Belgian Francs
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      54 9 (Managers' prices) F lr«t Mala\an H. s. 2.13 O 'IO Second Malayan 1.51 i.fii Third Malayan 1.07 1.18 Malaysian Commerce XD .83 .94 Mai. *arlng« Innd 1.28 1.38 Sterling Commodity 3 9 4/4 Flr«t Hon* Kong 1.00 1 ,o.-* Second Hons Kong .;o .74* Mala>«lan Investment Fund .90
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      110 9 \PORF. Sat. pore Chinese Produce Fxchanse noon prices today were. Coeonnt oil Buyers Sellers (FOB) Hulk 4?.50 Coconut nil (FOB) Drums 45.00 LfVKp Copra Mixed Oer Jan. 27.50 Sugar (Java) exgodown 24.25 Nutmeg* 11(U 495.00 Nutmeg* B W 23.1.00 Garbled l.ampong Black Pepper (FOB) 117.50 Pepper Black Special Sarawak
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      Lock icon SHIPPING MOVEMENTS
      161 9 SINGAPORE. Sat The following: ships are expected to be in port today:. Godowns Vessels 1/2 Trsat 3/4 Waitaki Maru 5 Golden Phoenix 6/7 Ellen Bakke 8/9 Nestor 10/11 Menestheus 13/14 Glenogle 15/16 Calchas 18 Esquilino 19 Leoville 23/24 Daepori 25/26 Keningau 27/28 Eastern Muse 29 '3O Africa Maru
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS—S'PORE, K. LUMPUR
      741 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 8.50 a.m. Airline JAL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.15 a.m. Airline GIA 898 from Jakarta. Time 10.53 a.m. Airline MAL on.', from Penang. ipoh. K. Luinpnr. Malacca. Time 10.39 a.m. Airline MAL 451 from Kuching. Time 12.35 p.m. Airline GIA 889 from
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      Lock icon Farmers plant 54,123,000 acres of winter wheat for Harvest in 1967
      323 9 WASHINGTON, Bat. (UPI).— The Agriculture Department yesterday estimated that farmers have planted 54,123,000 acres of 1967 winter wheat for harvest next summer and estimated the potential crop at 1,282,860,000 bushels. The Department's Crop Reporting Board, in Its first report
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  • WELCOME ROBERT VAUGHN
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      Lock icon FROM ME TO YOU
      649 10  -  By: Robert Vaughn WHEN I was a boy attending school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I was always nagged by a sort of "inner unrest"; an innate desire to travel, to go places and see things and meet people who make up our widely diversified world. Earlier this
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      Lock icon Eastern Sun 1966 award for the most popular T.V. artiste
      514 10  -  By Eric Chan ROBERT Vaughn, starring as the romantic adventurerhero. Napoleon Solo, in MGM-TVs "The Man From U.N.C L E is one of Hollywood's busiest and most widely respected young actors. The full-hour suspensemystery scries, in its second year and
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      153 10 i i so KEEP YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. PLACE: SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TIME: 2055 HOURS DATE: DECEMBER 26TH FLIGHT: UT/AF 1563 UTA EXTENDS THEIR WELCOME TO MR. ROBERT VAUGHN (NAPOLEON SOLO) FROM SYDNEY. mm /jr I s T s* t i *r f 5 J| 4 i
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    Lock icon The UNCLE file
    614 11 IN 1964, MGM-TV created a television series called "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Instead of being just one of the many ordinary television series, it was met with extraordinary success and became one of the most popular TV show. In Malaysia and Singapore, it has proved itself to
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    Lock icon Explosive start in 'The Venetian Affair'
    320 11 "THE Venetian Affair" begins with an explosive start when Alan Prentiss, an American diplomat, blows up the quarters of a peace conference during its session in Venice, killing all the delegates, including himself. The film was shot on the actual sites in Venice described
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    Lock icon CREATIVE ELKE SOMMER
    360 11 ELKE Sommer will never be seen in public looking anything less than the motion p cture star she has become. Between scenes of MGM's "The Venetian Affair", in which she plays the lovely ex-wife of Roocrt Vaughn In a super-suspense story from novelist Helen MacInnes. Miss Sommer
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    Lock icon VAUGHN: A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR BUT A NON-CONFORMIST
    436 11 RECENTLY, a man who had a business dinner date with Robert Vaughn in a Hollywood restaurant at a specified time, received a call from the actor telling him that he would be late. Vaughn, speaking from a telephone in his car. explained that
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      136 11 THE CATHAY ORGANISATION WELCOMES (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.) STAB OF M-G- M S Affair PANAVIStON MFTROCOLOR NOW SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY AT ORCHARD (SINGAPORE) PALACE SINGAPORE» PAVILION KUALA LUMPUR NEW OCEAN THEATRE SINGAPORE Meet vour (tToaril* Men From I'.X.C.LI. ROBERT VAUGHN and DAVID McCALLUM Napoiean SoI«l (H!y» K«r;»kiii) in Metro-Ooldwrn-Vfaver's "ONE SPY
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      69 11 METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER WELCOMES (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.) S r IN PANAVISION METROCOLOR Now Showing SIMULTAKEOVSLY AT. r ORCHARD I PALACE (SINGAPORE) j (SINGAPORE) 11 an.. 1.30, 4.M. V» t.IS p m 13*. «.M. «.«5 ISA PAVILION -KUALA LUMPUR In-conjunction with the VENETIAN AFFAIR OUR WOMAN FROM A.U.N.T.Y. SINGAPOREAN brings you the
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    Lock icon Results: Platter Pete's 1966 Pop Poll
    790 12 HI THERE! Before I rave on in my usual sophist icated manner, I would like to wish all you fab readers, A Very, Merry Christmas and hope that you are all having a fantabulous time on this festive season. This week, I just cannot
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    Lock icon Spotlight: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, Tick
    225 12 THERE have been many unusual, hip cat, pop artistes before and many whose specialty is comedy. But until the advent of Dave Dee. Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, no one had managed to combine the two. Parents and puritans beware! Dave Dee, Dozy.
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    Lock icon POP GOSSIP
    491 12 T AST week the Quests J 4 performed at a R A F. Tengah. MacGregor Club's Christmas Dance. Jap Chong of the Quests told us that it was a big success. "There was a lot of shouting and screaming and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves playing for the service
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    Lock icon Cosdel to handle Monument records
    302 12 SINGAPORE, Sat. Monument Records of America will begin a new international distribution system effective immediately with the signing of their licensee agreement for catalogue representation in Singapore, it was jointly announced recently by Fred Foster. President of Monument Records USA and Mr. S.P. Sim. Managing
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      12 12 EMI CONGRATULATIONS to The Quests Voted By YOU m *l* t m
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  • THE NEW FILMS
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      Lock icon Of passion, guts intrigues and a girl named Alva
      422 13  -  Bjr El Soto SINGAPORE Sat. Passion, guts, intriotif» and deceit, the ingredients of a spicy plot ire well flavoured in Paramount's "This Property Is Condemned". This emotional film exthe touuh-and-roush 1 fe in a small out-of-the-iv railroad town Dodson ~r e
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      Lock icon Studio gossip
      477 13 CARLO PONTI. producer of "Blow-Up." Michelangelo Antonioni's first Eng.i>h-language Aim. arrived in New York recently from Europe to attend the gala invitational world premiere of the film at the Coronet Theatre here. Starring Vanessa Redgrave. David Hemmings and Sarah Miles, the Carlo Ponti production for MetroGold wyn-Meyer, was
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      414 13  - Vaughn is terrific in Venetian Affair' By Mervyn Nicholas OINGAPORE, Sat.— Sooner or later The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has to leave the small TV screen for a bigger one. In "The Venetian Affair/' Robert Napoleon Solo Vaughn does just that as he takes time off from his regular TV series
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      723 13 HOLLYWOOD. Sat. The flurry around the 20th Century-Fox casting office M>arrhine for a champion black stallion to fill the title role in "Smoky" was as intense as the search for a new. hlond Hollywood sex symbol. There are horses and there are horses. Smoky had to
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    415 14  -  STAGE SET FOR 55TH DAVIS CUP By Brian Dewhurst MELBOURNE, Sat. (UPI) The stage is set for the 55th Davis Cup and Australia were at unbackable odds to beat India and retain the silver bowl for the 23rd time. Australian tennis experts tip Australia
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    45 14 NEW DELHI. Sat. (AP>.— A four-dav exhibition cricket match between the West Indies and the Prime Min iter's Eleven ended in a draw West Indies scored 415 and 231 for four declared. The Prime Minister's Eleven scored 37 and 233 for nine.
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    526 14 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sat. (AP) Australia, underdogs in the batting, took a firm grip on the first cricket Test against South Africa in the first day's play here on Friday. Crashing through the early South African batting on a wicket that was lively
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    247 14 NEW YORK. Sat (AP). Archie Moore. the former light heavyweight champion and one of the great scientific boxers of all time, and Flashy Kid Gavilan. the former welterweight king from Cuba, have been elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame,
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      1490 14 ii, j» TODAY CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Pinang, 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping: 7 Batu Pahat: 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P- M 3.00 OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary. 3.01 TEXAS RASSALIN. 3.26 SMOKE AND WEATHER.
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    2222 15 PENANG Runners, riders, barrier positions Race 1 Horses Clan 4, Dlv. 3-Abt 6 > Furs. 1.00 p.m. t 7<V> 2 OBO 3 ?<>n 4. Pin 4** a 0 04 8 333 9 100 I04 97.1 V* •4. »"»o r own All Smiles Shiau Venng Luh Ink Sahba
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    1893 15  -  Take Ponderosa in P. 0. Cup The going is GOOD By Windsor Lad PENANG, Sun.—lron Hand should slam his opposition and win the Governor's Cup (Race 7) to be run over Bif. at Penang this afternoon, opening day of the Penang Turf Club's Christmas and
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    27 15 mynsoß lap: Forest Knight Speed Boat Pay Roll GOLDEM SIS Star Pindi Lili Marlene Pa sir Bogak BEST <)( TSIDERS: P. of Perfection Forst Flame
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      510 16 T ONDON, Sat. i AP) Christmas holiday rush began yesterday with an estimated 10.000 automobiles an hour leaving London by five main routes. Many offices are already closed. Crowds outside Buckingham Palace waved and called "Happy Christmas" to Queen Elizabeth II as she left to spend the
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      451 16 "fITASHINGTON, Sot. (AP) The long-predicted world food crisis is now beginning, the U.S. Stote Deportment's top expert said yesterday, and for the first time, the United Stotes no longer has enough food surplus to meet all claims mode ogoinst it. Mr. Richard W. Reuter. special assistant
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      436 16 MOSCOW. Sat. <AP).— The Soviet Union yesterday announced a grain shipment to hungry India, its third recent commitment, to export grain. The announcement that 200.000 tons of grain would *oon shipped to India strengthened recent evidence that the Soviet I'nion is returning to its former role
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      356 16 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) The working wife apparently is here to stay. Of the 47 8 million families in the U.S. in 1965. 15 million wives earn pay cheques, according *o a report from the National Industrial Conference Board (NICB). Wh v doe? a
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      Lock icon A THREE-year-old Malaysian boy waits for treatment of a rare blood disease at Juntendo university Hospital in Tokyo recently. He is suffering from thalasemia, a rare blood disease, highly fatal, found in the Mediterranean and Southeast Asian region. The Japanese Foreign Office and the Malaysian Government extended to make possible the ailing child's treatment in Japan.
      87 16 A THREE-year-old Malaysian boy waits for treatment of a rare blood disease at Juntendo university Hospital in Tokyo recently. He is suffering from thalasemia, a rare blood disease, highly fatal, found in the Mediterranean and Southeast Asian region. The Japanese Foreign Office and the Malaysian Government extended to make possible
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      277 16 TOKYO. Sat. (IPI).— President Ho Chi Minh of Communist North Vietnam on Friday sent a Nn Year message extending good wishes and happiness to the American people, the Communist Vietnam News Agency (VXA) reported today. "On the occasion of the New Year, I would
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      56 16 London, sat. <upd The British Army is training dogs for American use in the Vietnam war to snifT out the enemy from jungle cover. the Defence Ministry said today. A ministry spokeman said a number of Alsatians and Labrador.- were being trained at the British junale
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      50 16 PHOENIX, Arizona, Sat. (AP) An elderly aunt in Texas sent a Christmas card to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Ray but couldn't remember their address. So she addressed it to their telephone number. Phoenix, Arizona. The postman looked up the address in the telephone directory and delivered the card.
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      440 16 LONDON. Sat <l'PI). Queen Elizabeth II said in her Christmas message to the Commonwealth women, even without equality, have contributed much to the progress of mankind. "This year I should like to speak especially to women,** the Queen said in her recorded broadcast from Buckingham
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      173 16 VATICAN CITY. Sa\ (UPI) Pope Pau VI yesterday summoned b shcrs from around the world o an unprecedented »serr in Rome next September a? a first step towar: giv.r? them a bigger rr' 2verning the Catho/.r Q The Pontiff, in a year-«";d report to the
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      124 16 TIME AND TIDE 25th December, 1966. Penang: 11.14 a.m. (5.9 ft.), 11.25 p.m. (7.7 ft.) Port Swettenham: 3.08 a.m. (12.6 ft.), 3.47 p.m. (11 ft.) Port Dickson: 4.43 a.m. (8.5 ft.), 5.01 p.m. (6.9 ft.) Singapore: 8.41 a.m. (8.5 ft.), 10 22 p.m. (7.9 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 6.33 a.m. (6.9
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