Eastern Sun, 9 July 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1052 Wednesday, 9 July 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 261 1 CAIRO, Tues. (Reuter) Regular Egyptian soldiers crossed the Suez Canal last night and attacked an Israeli position, killing 30 Israelis, an Egyptian military spokesman said here today. Five Egyptians were either killed or wounded in the attack, at the northern point of Lake Timsah,
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  • 83 1 BOLOGNA. Italy, Tues. (Reuter) The lone warder of the tiny prison at Budrio (pop 5.700) near here was behind bars himself today, for being too kind to the prisoners. Salvatore Gattuso. 40. earned his establishment the nickname of "The merry jailer'' because he would
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  • 94 1 BRISBANE, Tues. (Reuter) A young man gave customs men a slippery problem here when he arrived from New Guinea with eight pythons stuffed in his coat pockets. The non-venemous snakes were seized by the Customs Department Inspectors as prohibited imports when the barefooted man arrived on Sunday. The
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  • 102 1 TAIPEI Tues. (UPI) Twenty-three miners were killed and at least 34 injured yesterday in one of the worst mine disasters in Taiwan history, police announced today. Preliminary investigation revealed that the accident was caused by a gas explosion in a 10.000-foot tunnel of the coal mine at
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  • 34 1 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reu ter) Peking today lodged a "strong protest" with the Soviet Union against the intrusion into Heilungkiang province In northeast China by Russian gunboats and aircraft. Radio Peking reported.
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  • 132 1 EXCITED housewives formed the majority of the large crowd who were present at the ballot for the sale of some 549 units of Housing and Development Board flats at Queenstown, yesterday. Shouts of joy by lucky winners who had allocation of their own choice
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  • 96 1 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) The British government is likely to oppose the sale to Spain of German-made Leopard tanks incorporating Britishmade components the Times reported this morning. The paper's military correspondent. Charles DouglasHome. wrote that the Spanish government was keen to ac- quire
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  • 226 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Malaysian Police Control Centre said that no incident had been reported up to late this evening. The general atmosphere in the country is one of uneasy calm with tension and anxiety still apparent in Selangor and certain sensitive areas in Perak.
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  • 114 1 NAGASAKI. Kyushu. Tues. (AFP) —The sixth ship in the world's biggest supertanker series built in Japan, the 326,-000-aeadweight ton "Universe Iran", was christened todav as the mammoth vessel lay moored to a sea berth in Nagasaki Bay. Mme Hushang Ansary. wife of the Iranian Ambassador in the U.S.,
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  • 129 1 The Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Habib Bourguiba paid a 20minute courtesy call to the Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew in his City Hall s offices yesterday. The Tunisian visitor is here on a two-day goodwill trip. When he arrived here yesterday
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  • 84 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter> Police last night arrested ten demonstrators who broke into the Ethiopian chancery today and went on a brief but violent rampage in protest against the visit of Emperor Haile Selassie. A police spokesman said four ether demonstrators were arrested trying to break
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  • 344 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ench Khir Johari today appealed to the Chinese traders, especially in Kuala Lumpur not to boycott the produce of Malay farmers. Enche Khir pointed out hir Ministry was aware for some time that some Chinese
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  • 197 1 Soviet N Fleet Heading For Cuba POWER CONFRONTATION MOSCOW. Tues. (UPI) A Soviet naval squadron with a nuclear missile capability sliced through the Atlantic toward Cuba todav. The main warship in the fleet is a large destroyer with mounts for three-engine guided missiles with nuclear warheads. The squadron was bound
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  • 66 1 MOSCOW Tues. (AFP) A new telephone link is to be set up between Europe and Japan across the USSR at the end of July. Tass news agency reported here today. The link, which will initially permit 20 simultaneous conversations and later perhaps 100 was decided on by
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  • 27 1 VIENTIANE Tues (UPI) Military spokesman said today Communist troops had overrun a government position near the royal capital of Luang Prabang. seriously threatening the city.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 5224 2 THE Teachers Training College yesterday issued the full results of the Professional Examinations it conducted in April, this year. The results covered the Professional Examinations conducted by T.T.C. in April, this year. Over 2,000 candidates took part in the examma- tions. The following candidates have satisfied the
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  • 359 3 $6 MILLION PROFIT rating Fi roflt of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corpot.w ru d Passed the $6 million mark for the first dfeHn Ahi ,r^ n of the Bank Mr Tan Chin Tuan disclosed in the OCBC's Annual Report for 1968. f l sal< l might
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  • 111 3 A van-driver Tan Ten* Huat was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and disqualified from driving by the Third District Court Judge Mr. K.T. Alexander yesterday, for causing the death of two of his passengers on Aug 14, last year. Tan was accused of negligent driving,
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  • 93 3 TWO men were charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with possessing stolen property at the Main Gate of Keppei Shipyard (Pte.) Ltd. on July 7. Thev were Mohd. Yusoff bin Abdul Aziz. 43, and Wong Wing Kai, 38. They were alleged to have fraudently obtained a
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  • 98 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs. The Minister of Welfare Services perturbed by the drop in sales of the Social Welfare Lottery tickets has appealed to the public to continue buying them as they used to do before. She said: "It is for the benefit of everybody that they
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  • 52 3 A 31-year-old husband. Raju Balakrishnan told the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr. E.C. Foenander yes.erday that the man he had fisted at Empress Place on July 7 was his wife's "boyfriend." Balakrishnan was fined $25 for causing hurt to an Indian man at the Legal Aid Office. He
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  • 111 3 TWO youths, charged with the murder of a Hong Kong couple at the 7-1/4 mile Upper Bukit Timah Road on June 15, were sent to the Woodbridge Hospital for a medical examination until July 22 by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander yesterday. They
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  • 107 3 A SIX-LECTURE course on "Income Tax'* will be conducted by Mr. Lee Fook Hong at the New Lecture Theatre 4. University of Singapore, on July 21. Lectures will be held twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. The course is open to
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  • 106 3 SEOUL, Tues. (Reuter) President Park Chung Hee will hold a press conference around July 17 to give a clearer view on whether he will seek a third straight term in 1971. a Presidential spokesman said today. President Park will have to step down in 1971
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  • 203 3 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Central Bank of the Philippines have uncovered a racket involving certain travel agencies who purchase U.S. dollars with the use of fake passports and other travel documents. An official of the NBI said
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  • 52 3 PARIS. Tues. (AFP) An early morning stroller today discovered the body of a voung man hanging from a 12-foot rope tied to the highest branch of a tree in a Paris square. His pockets contained a key ring and a bill from a nearby restaurant but
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  • 240 3 THE $3 million Industrial and Commercial Bank at Shenton Way will be officially opened on July 17. The new 10-storey building that occupies some 170.000 square feet facing the busy sea-front of Singapore will house a host of the bank's subsidiary companies.
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  • 173 3 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Rains that caused widespread damage and deaths on Japan's southern-most island of Kyushu spread over the main island on Honshu today killing at least six persons. The new casualties raised the one week death toll to 72. the National Police Agency announced. The rains
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  • 103 3 MASSADA. Israe!. Tues. (Reuter) The skeletons of 27 warriors believed to have been among those who defended this mountain fortress against the Roman legions nearly 2.000 years ago were buried with full military honours today. The Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army. Gen. Shlomo Goren, conducted the service
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  • 94 3 TUNIS. Tues. (Reuter) Two mysterious objects in the sky, one of which resembled a bright star and exploded like a nuclear bomb, caused excitement in Tunis last night the Tunisian News Agency reported today. The news agency quoted Prof. Bechir Torkl. the country's top atomic expert, as
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  • 517 3 LONDON, Tties. (UPI Reuter) American and South Vietnamese peace negotiators in Paris do not at present interpret the current lull in ground fighting in South Vietnam as a "peace signal" from the Communist side, authoritative Allied sources said yesterday. Allied
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  • 51 3 BELGRADE. Tues. (UPI) Indian Secretary of Foreign Affairs T. N. Kaul arrived in Belgrade Monday night to attend the consultative meeting of non-aligned countries beginning here Tuesday. Other arrivals, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported. Included the Laotian Ambassador to Moscow, who is also accredited in Yugoslavia. Phanga
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  • 78 3 MANILA. Tues (UPI) Philippine Constabulary Authorities discovered today that ail that glitters Is not gold. The 101 "gold bars" which constabulary agents seized from a Filipino farmer on Sunday and which was said to be worth at least 300.000 pesos (75 000 U.S. dollars) turned out to be
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  • 137 3 PARIS. Tues. (Reuter) A French company today unveiled its first aerotrain an 80-passenger vehicle built to run on air cushion and provide inter-city transport at .speeds of up to 185 miles an hour. Described by Its manufacturers as the first operational vehicle of its kind, it is
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  • 358 4 LONDON, Tues. (UPI and Reuter) Queen Elizabeth on Monday conferred knighthoods on Lord Snowdon. husband of Princess Margaret, and Welsh singer Geraint Llewelyn Vans for their roles in last week's investiture of the Prince of WalesLord Snowdon, who as constable of Caernarvon Castle helped organize
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  • 142 4 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter) Rumania's Ambassador to Moscow, Teodor Marlnescu, today called on Soviet Communist Party Seeretarv Konstantln Katushev, causing renewed speculation about a Soviet high-level visit to Bucharest. Katushev is responsible for handling relations with the world's other ruling parties and Is closely associated with
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  • 50 4 PARIS. Tue» (Reuter) France today banned the sale of alcoholic drinks in motorway bars throughout the country. Equipment Minister Ulbin Chalandon thus reversed an earlier decision authorising the sale of light beers with a low alcohol content In the Ave bar s at present open on French Motorway#.
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  • 147 4 BONN, Tues. cUPI» India has made it clear to West Germany that it does not intend to grant diplomatic recognition to Communistruled East Germany. Deputy Prime Minister Morarjl Desai told a news conference Monday. Desai, who also Is Minister of Finance, spoke to reporters after
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  • 256 4 NAIROBI. Kenya, Tues. (UPI) Angry Luo tribesman yesterday stoned and turned away the automobile of Kenya's Vice-President as he came to pay respects to slain political leader Tom Mboya. Accompanied by a police escort. Vice President Daniel Arap Mol was among the thousands gathering at
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  • 53 4 GENEVA. Tues. (Reuter) Britain will present a draft treaty to outlaw germ warfare to the Geneva disarmament talks on Thursday, British officials said today. The draft will come just a week aftej- a United Nations report which said the universal destruction of these weapons would not detract from
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  • 43 4 BRASILIA, Tues(Reuter) Brazil's capital of Brasilia one of the world's most modern cities claims the country's highest illiteracy rate. Of its 500,000 inhabitants, 80.8 per cent are illiterate, according to figures released here by the National Institute of Statistics.
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  • 332 4 WASHINGTON, Tues. (CPI) A bill to authorise President Nixon's Safeguard Antiballistic Missile (ABM) system was sent to the Senate on Monday with a minority report cautioning against "being frightened into unnecessary additional weapons systems expenditures." Clearing 0 f the US$2O billion military
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  • 83 4 HAMILTON, Bermuda. Tues. (Reuter) Seventy Royal Marines are aboard tw© British frigates in Bermuda in case violence flares during a Black Powe r conference here, a Defence Ministry spokesman said tonight. The Marines are aboard the frigates Mohawk and Arethusa. The Conference is due to open on
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  • 201 4 LONDON, Toes. (Reuter) Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, said today the monarchy's lack of power was a relief as far as he was concerned. He told a Magazine Editor's Club here during a question and answer session that political or executive power entailed a considerable
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  • 348 4 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) A leading expert on Communist China said on Monday publication of the Royal Institute for International Affairs that a general Sino-American settlement seems hardly attainable in the lifetime of Mao Tse- tung. A "general airing" of SlnoAmerlcan differences may
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  • 95 4 DUDLEY, England. Tues. (Reuter) Former van driver Fred Priest, left hospital yesterday looking in good shape for a man who died three times. Ove r a period of 144 hours Priest, 56. was given an unprecedented 195 electric shocks to brin? him back to life. The highest number
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  • 180 4 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) The State Department said today the United States had told Chinese authorities on Taiwan it would be concerned by any action by the Communist or Nationalist sides that create tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said this
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  • 124 4 VERMILION*. Ohio. Tues (UPI) At last 16 persons were killed and thousands made homeless when flood waters swept through northern Ohio in the wake of a Fourth of July storm front that spawned killer tornadoes and numerous thunderstorms. Seventeen other persons were killed during the storm
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  • 93 4 NEW YORK. Tues (Reuter) A Yemeni and his two sons went on trial here today on charges of plotting to kill President Nixon. Ahmed Rageh Namer. 43. Hussaln Ahmad Regah. 21. and Abdo Ahmad Namer. 19. are alleged to have conspired last November 7
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  • 104 4 RAMSGATE. England. Tues. (Reuter) Police caught a bedroom burglar because he fell asleep on the job. a court here was told yesterday. The burglar, lan Trickett, 25. was fined 25 sterling after police described how thev found him asleep on the floor of a bedroom in
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  • 258 4 Playwrights Congress Mn crnw Toes (UPI) Western delegates to a playwrights congress forced Soviet hosts to admit Isr eli delegates by threat of boycott, congress delegate, sa.d yesterday. The Second Congres# of the International Guila of Radio. Television and Cinema Writers ended Monday. It almost
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  • 67 4 WASHINGTON. Tues. rßeuter» The White House today confirmed that President Nixon's tint choice as his Vice-Presidential runnin j mate in last years election was Robert F.nch. now Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare White House spokesman Ronald Z'.egler described as "accurate" an excerpt from a book saying that
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  • 197 4 WASHINGTON. Tues CRAu. ter) Some of the 300,00$ Chinese in the United States could be a danger to American security, J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has warned. He told a Congressional subcommit.ee that the F.B I. was on the
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  • 55 4 BONN. Tues (UPI) Chancellor Kurt Geori Kieilnger lemains opposed to upward revaluation of the German mark, despite contrary edvice from Economics Minister Karl Schiller, a government spokesman said on Monday 'The Chancellor is of the view that neither revaluation nor an ersatz (substitute) revaluation is necessary." Ccnrad
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  • 462 5  -  By H.C. Tan T3Y the time all 57 items were displayed at "Fashions 17" last Saturday, any observer would agree that one consistent trend prevailed At best, all pant-suit fans would be able to find a variety of ideas to pick up here and the
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  • 447 5  -  By Florence de Santis ITS always refreshing to talk to a British designer. Where most Americans surround the designing art with a fog of self-importance, the British take a briskly matter-of-fact attitude toward the whole thing. "I began with graphic design." said John Donald
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  • 230 5  -  By Mary Sue Miller IF a Lovely is on her toes, she's giving thought to her feet. The barefoot and open sandal season is upon us. Sidewalk and sightseeing sizzle is around the bend. The idea of stepping out with unlovely, uncomfortable feet is absolutely cringemaking. Let's
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  • 627 5  -  By H. C. Tan T ADIES, have you ever dreamt you saw yourself in a Maidenform bra? Well if you haven't, wait till you see Maidenform's latest lingerie and bras, you'll have something to dream about. I'm talking about those gorgeous bodice push-up bras, the
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  • 384 5 According to an expert on food and beverage garnishing is very often neglected and treated as a superfluous item in cooking. Mr. Tan Kwang Teng, with 3" years cooking experience behind him. now in charge of food and beverage with the Hotel NVgara stressed that food
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  • 73 5 Lively new pantsuits for fall, in grey and red argyle knit, in stripes, in plaids, with long jumper tunics often replacing Jackets. Soft new look in suits, with Jackets knit like sweaters, bias-knit skirts with an easy swing, in colours like red and white, banded in white. Fall
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 240 5 TODAY and YOU... Wednesday, July 9, 1969. STAR GAZER"*V Bj CLAY R. POLLAN K Your Daily Activity Goido M According to thm Start. ATA |g /< TAURUS #\An.*> T JO 0-33-50-53 £4l-62 GIMINI' 2O 7-11-13 57-66 CANCER JUNf2I Jl/tV 22 5- 9-27-29 31-36-90-84 UO Your Daily Activity Guidm According to
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  • 608 6 "pARLIAMENTARY democracy, said the late Prime Minister of Thailand, Field Marshal Sarlt Thanarat, is a luxury Asian nations cannot afford. He made the statement soon after he had captured power through a bloodless coup d'etat and it might be viewed as some sort of a self-Justification. The key word
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  • 266 6 The disclosure by the Minister of Home Affairs Tun (Dr.) Ismail on the merger moves by secret societies is yet another bad news from Malaysia in recent weeks. These groupings of thugs, whether on a small scale or otherwise are a cancer on civilised living.
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  • 1035 6  -  Step By Step To The Moon By Edward K. Delong This la the first of five articles describing the step by step progress of America's space programme due to be climaxed on July 21 wi»h man's first on the moon. SPACE CENTRE, Houston, (UPI) MANS a
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  • 762 6  -  LETTERS... NORODOM SIHANOUK I WOULD refer you to the editorial entitled "Another Cambodian Move" in the 13th June issue of your newspaper on which I should like to give you some clarifications. Firstly, our government has never, and will never allow the national territory to
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  • 734 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON The pre-eminent influence of "the iron chancellor," Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, has just been proved in more than one way. An interesting instance is the sharp bending of the desegregation guidelines for Southern school districts, which everyone said would never, never, never be bent.
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  • 347 6 Tiny biological machines have been discovered in plant leaves. Called peroxisomes, they hold promise as a key to controlling the growth of plants and animals, and may even be manipulated to help human beings with weight problems. Biochemists at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing,
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  • 874 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh WILL the Soviet Union and China really fight a war? As early as two months ago. the PRAVDA of Moscow gave the warning saying: "This is not improbable!" A UPI despatch from New York, dated July 1969. reported
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  • 11 6 The beautiful attracts the beautiful. Lei r i, Hunt.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 520 7 By Our Market Reporter r !Kvs wtiaKias The barely steady opening soon gave way to further easiness which took levels well below their previous close. But by the afternoon, a stream of buyers came into the market and share prices hardened finishing a shade
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    • 946 7 miSIXESS done in and reported to the trading rooms u of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of I,MO units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS BEN $2.03 (1); Borneo SI.7C (1) $1.71 (1); Boustead $lBl II $lB3 (1);
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    • 152 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) The market began the new account yesterday slightly easier. Turnover was small and equities drifted lower on lack of interest. Yesterday's lack of activity mainly reflected uncertainty as to the market's direction following the recent technical rallies. Towards the close the FT Index
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    • 14 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $620.25 per picul, down $0.87 J.
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    • 264 7 The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 9: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 8/9 State of Mysore 10/11 Australasia M.W. 3/4 Hua Li 27 Seminyih 29/30 Straat Colombo 31 '32 Selat Karimata 40/41 Eastern Unity 44 Kyusei Maru 6/7 Meyenburg 27
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    • 125 7 rjiBE Singapore Rubber BroJc«r» Association bu tuppUed the follow* 1 ing information m respect ot btain MB transacted In BMRs tar the SMR wee* 6 CV en dins (HCj July 4 July Pallet* 4 cento premium buyers. 41 cento premium stiler*. 8MR 5 CV IKC) July/ Sept.
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    • 136 7 MB. JOHN CHAN, assistant accountant at the First National City Bank In Sin?;apore has been assigned to he bank's New York corporate headquarters. He married the former Bosallnd Ong recently, and they are taking their honeymoon on the way to New York. The assignment Is
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    • 127 7 The Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes In its rates to merchants (rates are quoter to the equivalent of 100 of foreign currency) SELLINCi r.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $7B 8250; Holland Guilders $84.2900; Swiss Francs $71.2875; Belgian Francs $8 1125; French Francs
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    • 59 7 NEW YORK. Tuee. (UPI) Rubber futures dosed 20 points higher across the board yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange There were no sales. (BID) (ASK) July 27.40 Sept. 26.85 27 35 Nov. 26.35 2685 Jan. 25.55 26.25 March 25.45 25.75 May 25.40 25.75 July 25.40 25 75
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    • 332 7 BONN. Tues. (Reuter) India's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Morarji Desai, said yesterday he had had satisfactory talks with West German Economics Minister Mr. Karl Schiller on Bonn's aid to India for this year. Mr. Desai told a
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    • 59 7 HONG KONG Tuea. (UPI) Money Quotations HK$ 6.0875 per U.S. dollar HK$ 6.1025 per U.S. dollar IT HK$ 14.54 per pound sterling HK5310.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK$ 162.7 per 10.000 Japanese yens HKS 134.7 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HK$ 135.7 "per 100
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    • 307 7 JULY first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-3/4 cents P«r lb. down one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Easier tnougn uncertain conditions ruled during the mornings trading
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    • 48 7 (Manager* PrteM) 1st Malayan XD 2 72 2nd Malayan XD 107 3rd Malayan ICS The Cam. ind 1.00 111 Tba Saving rand 1.1S 1.21 M. Invest Fond 1.25 1.3." 1ft Hong Kong 1.50 1S€ 2nd Hong Kong XD 1.03 101 Sterling Com 5/i ('Rons Rons currency)
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    • 101 7 OFF-SHORE drilling ud production platforms are turn-inr-on Australia's wealth of oil and natural fas. Three man-made islands now stand off the southern coast of Australia and two more are under construction. The Are platforms are developing the ras and oil fields of the Bass Strait
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    • 601 7 SINGAPORE Stock E*-1 chance sold and other price# officially luted at the close of Business. INDUSTRIALS ACMA 183 188 Ben Co. CD 2 08 Borneo Bhd ill B<>u$tead 1S1 Camel Plywood XBI 2.02 2 04 C. Sugar 3 60 cold Storage CALL chemical Co 1 64
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    • 101 7 THE noon price* at the i<tnr»pore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday were:— Bun seller Coconut oil (FOB.) Bulk 48 00 Coconut OH (f -O B i Drum mmm 50.50 MUiea Copra Muntok Hnite Pepper 11.00 (FOB.) ***** Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 122.50 Sarawak Special Buck Pepppr (FO B.) 96% 9250
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    • 384 7 auviLi. M(UI MSA MLO29 Kuala Lumpur. IKia 6 AS SK97I Bangkok. Tashkent. Copenhagen. I.OOUL MSA MLII 9 Kuala Lompnr. 10.10 am. OAKUDA GABO6 toEart*. 10.15 a-m MSA MLISI Koala Lumpur. 1025 am. MSA MLOOS Penang. I nob. Koala Lumpur. Malacca. 10.50 a.m. THAI TG4SS Bangkok. 1.10 p.m. MSA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 664 8  -  By Shota Ushio TOKYO (UPI) The chairman of Hie board shouted at his directors who were playing a new game with mallets and a bowl. "We should get down to business," the chairman said. But the new game continued to fascinate the members of his board
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    • 220 8 WEST BERLIN. (Renter) The elephants and hippos at West Berlin's Zoo have had their backs scrubbed for the celebrations marking its 125 th birthday. The Berlin Zoo is now the largest in Europe although it was almost totally destroyed during the Second World War and
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    • 236 8 TWENTY-FIVE secondary schools have participated In the semi-finals of the Ninth Annual Inter-Schools Safety Quiz on July 3 and 4 at the Shell Theatrette. They were picked from among 78 schools during a five-day heats held recently. Nine of this 25 schools will be selected to enter
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    • 978 8  -  Australia's Unique Bird: By HARRY FRAUCA CANBERRA Although Australia's famous Laughing Jackass, or kookaburra, is the world's largest kingfisher, it may never eat a single fish in its life. Its diet consists of small snakes, lizards, insects, crabs, mice, small rats and baby birds. A symbol of
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    • 531 8 YOU may not hire heard of them but Whitney, Whitworth, Maudsley, Brown and Fitch are names very familiar to engineers the world over. They were, in fact, the Englishmen who designed the very first machine tools, way back in the 19th century. Their design and
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    • 351 8  -  Date-line By Ele,Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE and Waif: My father is a wonderful man, but he is a nobody that many people call a dreamer. My parents are divorced, and so I told all my friends that he is a rich man and that I can qet
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 121 8 By Jack Tippit K m r m "He/, M0m...1 finallygot rid of all my old comic books! I traded 'em to Roger for ail of hisl" DATELINE: DANGER! YOU'VE BEEN BUSTIN' POP A BRUISE EVER SINCE I GOT HERE, TOP.' MAKE VOUR MOVE/ COOL IT, RAVEN... you GOT A- L
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  • 833 9  - Photographer-P roducer Plans To Sue Bisset By Shcilah Graham LONDON, Tuts. YOU know that Jacqueline Bisset, the pert British actress, has arrived 4 photographer-producer Is planning to sue her for what he describes as "a "finders fee." It seems he met Jacqueline during her time as one of the lovelies
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  • 293 9 AST GRINSTAD. Eng. Tues (UPI) A nurse and friend of Brian Jones testified at an inquest yesterday that the former member of the Rolling Stones pop group was not in a fit condition to swim when he drowned in his blue-tiled swimming
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  • 124 9 NEW YORK. Telly Savalas joins Clint Eastwood. Don Rickles. Donald Sutherland and Caroll O'Connor for a starring role in MGM's Katzka-Loeb Production, "The Warriors," soon to begin production in Yugoslavia. Savalas. who scored high with audiences in MGM's "The Dirty Dozen." has just finished "On
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  • 186 9 SYDNEY. Tues (Reuter) Rolling Sto.n*s Mick Jagfer arrived here today wearing a maxi-ler.gth maroon coat and carrying a fring* purse to play the film role of Australia's most infamous outlaw. Ned Kelly. The pop idol told journalist* he hoped to plav the role
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  • 147 9 WEST BERLIN. Tue i. (Reuten The Yugoslav film 'Rani Raaovi (Early Works)" by Zelmir Zilnik this week wen the Golden Bear of the West Eerlln International Film Festival. It is the festival's top award for the best fulllength feature film. Yugoslavia was the only Communist
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  • 318 9 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) —The Rollina Stones fave a six-hour free concert in Hyde Park on oturdoy and 200,000 pop music fans jammed the place. As 2,000 butterflies released from a cage filled air, Mick Jogger, the group's leader, paid tribute to Brian
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  • 79 9 LONDON C h rls s1 e Shrlmpton. sister of model Jean Shrimpton. hu been cast for a supporting role In Sagittarius productions' "Hush-A-Bye." an MGM presentation starring Romy Schneider and Donald Houston. currently filming here Miss Shrlmpton. 21. portrays a mod London girl involved In a
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  • 500 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON, Tues. There's nothing iike a Dame Anna Neagle. Anna now in her fourth year on stage in "Charlie Girl/' broke down when the audience rose to cheer her following the announcement that the Queen had
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  • 122 9 A scene from the American International presentation, "Killers Three", produced by Dick Clark, who starred in the film and also wrote the story with Michael Fisher, and directed by Bruce Kessler. Starring: Robert Walker. Diane Varsl. Norman AJden, Maureen Arthur and Tony York. "Killers Three"
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 366 10  -  Tunku Attend Weekend Races By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Magic Jim has shown vast improvement since the last time I saw him. This morning he strode out attractively on a yielding track. Starting from the half mile he clapped on the pace to clock
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    • 1066 10 Horses CI asa t 1, Dlv. 3 6 Furs. 165 Boada 9.00 Income Kbogsl 3. Donnelly 405 Master Pride 5y 9 0O G S Syndicate Daniels 923 Fireball fly 813 Mett Stable Tulloh 756 Royal Meadow 11 4y 813 Mr Mr,. 8.C Lay r
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    • 186 10 LEEDS, England, Tues. (Reuter) England fast bowler David Brown was today passed for the third cricket Test against West Indies, beginning at the Headingley ground here on Thursday. Brown, who suffered hand and groin injuries in the Second Test at Lord's, came through a
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    • 804 10 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI)— Frank Howard drove In three runs with his 31st and 32nd homers of the season and Mike Epstein also homered last night to power the Washington Senators to a 7-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Casey Cox relieved Jim
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    • 463 10 Athletes from Bukit Timah District took top honours on the second day of the four-day Singapore Combined Primary Schools' 10th annual national athletic championships held at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Thev won five events the boy's 'B' and 'C' divisions shot putt, boy's *C
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    • 113 10 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Malaysian David Lee Mun Chew Is favoured to retain the New South Wales Open table tennis championship which begin in Sydney on Thursday. David, 25, who Is top seed for the men's singles, came to Australia last year with the Malaysian
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    • 868 10 SINGAPORE'S new 'find* of the season, 14-ycax-old Chee Swee Lee, shattered her own 400 m. record mark on the second day of the five-day Singapore Combined Secondary Schools' 10th annua! naUonal athletic championships held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre yesterday. Chee, a student of
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    • 209 10 BRITISH OPE LYTHAM. St. Anne's, England, Tues. (Reuter) Caddies were the chief casualties today as the world's top players made their final preparations for the British Open golf championship, beginning here tomorrow. Two top players dismissed their caddies after disagreements. Bruce Devlin. 31-year-old
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    • 150 10 NEW YORK. Tues. (AFP) Several leading American athletes have withdrawn from the United States athletic team to meet a European selection at Stuttgart. West Germany at the end of July, the American Amateur Athletic Union said here yesterday. They are Olympic high jump champion
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    • 143 11 TOKIO. Tues (Reuter) World junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan will have an operation on his left eye this week, h's handlers said today. Thev said the left eve was cut in a world title bout with Antonio Amaya of Panama here last April and
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    • 481 11 SWANSEA, Wales, Tues. (Reuter) The West Indian cricket tourists drew their threeday match against Glamorgan here yesterday after skipper Basil Butcher had set the home team 296 runs to win in 105 minutes. Glamorgan declared at 248 for six at lunch yesitiuay in iepiy
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    • 412 11 LONDON*. Tues. (Reuter) Former England Test Batsman. Eric Russell of Middlesex. raced to 170 not out. and with the help of Clive Radley (52> enabled his side to end the day 29 runs behind Nottinghamshire nrst Innings' total of 329 In the English County
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    • 202 11 CARACAS, Venezuela. Tues. (Reuter> The Japanese Embassy stepped in yesterday to rescue 26 Japanese baseball players pulled off a plane as they were about to leave for the U.S. on Friday without paying a hotel bill. The Embassy paid a U554,500 $4,500 bill
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    • 78 11 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Dave Hill, who took the first prize money in the Buick Open tournament on Sunday, has closed the gap on leader Gene Littler in the latest earnings list released by the Uni'ed States Professional Golfers Association. Hill won U5525.000 (about in
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    • 149 11  -  By EASTERN KNIGHT THIS year's inter-schools championship is divided into three sections boys, gir'.s and primary schools. In the boys' section, 12 schools are participating, the girls' section has eight teams and the primary schools four. In the boys' section, Raffles Institution, Victoria School, Tanjong Katong Secondary
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    • 436 11 SCHOOL teacher Koh Khek Cheow (handicap 20) scored a nett-65, 3-under par to win the year's Captain's Prize after a countback from Robert Chong (21) on Sunday. Playing hardly twice a week after school hours, the victory was Khek Cheow's first since Joining the Keppel Club
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    • 59 11 MANILA, Tues. (AFP) Japan's Shigeru Taremizu, WBA No. 9 flyweight contender. will meet the Philippines' Rudy Billiones in a ten-round fight on Aug. 2 at Manila's Rizal Coliseum, it was reported here today. Billiones is the No. 9 flyweight challenger in the latest Oriental Boxing Federation ratings and
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    • 149 11 MANCHESTER. Lancashire. Tues. (AFP) F.A. Cup winners Manchester City, reported back for training today and were told that they can earn £74.000 in bonuses if they win everything they compete for this season. Asst. Manager Malcolm Allison warned his players that a "no drinking" ban
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    • 150 11 S'pore For Asian Boxing T ourney KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Eight countries. Including Singapore. have so far accepted Invitations to take part in the Asian boxing championships In Kuala Lumpur from Oct. 5 to 11. The other seven countries are Japan. Thailand. Pakistan. Ceylon, Brunei. Hong Kong and Taiwan. According to
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    • 95 11 NAPLES. Italy. Tues. (Renter) British Olympic champion Rodnev Pattisson retained his lead in the world flying Dutchman Class sailing championships after a tough duel with Canada's Peter Byrne, jesterday. Pattisson. sailing Superdocious with John MacDonal Smith as crew, trailed Byrne and Michael Linton during the first half
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    • 195 11 OXFORD. England, Tup*. 'Reuter) Vandals due up a large section of the Oxford University cricket pitch yesterday in an apparent protest against a visit on Wednesday bv a touring South African cricket team Evading a night-guard who jras patrolling with a dog after rumours that the
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    • 71 11 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) Philippine junior lightweight boxer Flash Gallrgo is willing to fight world junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Kobayafhi of Japan In a non-title ma'rh. thr Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) said today. The Commission said a request for thr bout was made to JBC by Gallego's
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    • 349 11 KOH Kum Seng qualified for the singles final of the Singapore Badminton Association 1969 junior championships, to be held at the Singapore Badminton Hall, Guillemard Road, on Sunday at 8 00 p.m. On Monday night, in the men's singles semi-finals, Koh defeated Omar Salim
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1058 11 w iUfc(CHANNEL 5» Language Elementary Jamuan PM. 300 Opening Announce- Makan; 11-20-11 40 General ment? in al! Languages A* Hou«e- Science Sec I Insects <ii*. ■vive* Mat;ne» Part 1 of a P.M. 1155-12 15 Health EducaHokkien Film. ""The 13th Sister"; tion <Ch > Sec I II Com--3.40 House and Home
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  • 257 12 WOMEN who are born with ugly looking birthmarks on their faces can now happily shed off their complexes and face the world with confidence. For they can hide the spots with the use of Covermark a cosmetic invented specially for concealing all types of permanent or
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  • 290 12 MOST foreign shipping organisations are surprised to find a high standard of workmanship in local shipyards. This was stated by Mr. K.C. Lee, Managing Director of Far East Ship Building Industries Ltd.. which was officially opened by Mr. Lim Kim San the
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  • 31 12 THIEVES broke into the Kwang Hup Siang warehouse in Fisher Street and escaped with goods valued at $4,631. on Monday evening by removing a zinc roof. Police are investigating
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  • 82 12 A cocktail party was given by the Ilallan Trade Commissioner, yesterday in honour of the visiting 25-man Italian Trade delegation to Singapore. The Italian Trade Delegation was here to boost trade between Singapore and Italy. Sunpix by Richard Chow shows (from left) Messrs. G. Marinoni.
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  • 251 12 Mr. Lim Kim San yesterday told local industries that their managements should not only be adaptive but also be creative, forward-looking with clearly defined objectives based upon realistic forecasting. He said this could come about If human will and Intelligence were used to bring co-operation between
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  • 411 12 THE Vice-chancellor of the University of Singapore yesterday called on the Students Union to play a bigger role in helping charitable organisations in the Republic. He said that although the government has allocated millions of dollars to charitable organisations in the Annual Budget,
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  • 307 12 FIVE all-star variety shows, jointly organised bv RTS Enterprise and RETAS (Radio and Electrical Traders Association of Singapore), will be held in conjunction with the "Sound and Vision Exhibition" at the Singapore Conference Hall from July 18 to 23. Several leadine popular
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  • 67 12 A 56-YEAR-OLD unemployed woman, Sim Laa Hor, was fined a total of $llO after she pleaded guilty to two charges of buying an illegal public lottery on July 7. She was said to have bought Chap-ji-kee" and 4-D:gits worth $74 at Cheang Wan Sens Place. Sim
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  • 45 12 A MOTOR-CYCLIST Raymond Wee. 23. of Tembling Road died on the spot after his machine collided with a road divider at Collyer Quay, this evening. Those who witnessed the accident are requested to eet in touch with Sepoy Lines Traffic Police.
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  • 104 12 A WIRE linesman of th« Singapore Telephone Board was electrocuted after he came into direct contact with exposed telephone wires on Mondav night. E T Jeganathan of Owen Road, was working at a site at Ja'.an Uiu Selatar with several other employees putting up several
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  • 30 12 RAJOO Jayakrishnan was fined $25 by the Nine Magistrate Court Mr- EC. Foenanaer after he pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a packet of Indian hemp (marijuana).
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  • 117 12 A SIX man delegation from the Junior Chamber of Commerce yesteraay paid a visit to the Vietnamese Consulate General. Mr Le Quan Giar.g at his office at Shaw House The purpose of their visi£ was to promote friendship goodwill and understanding between Jaycees and representatives of
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  • 82 12 A housewife. Ng Siew Bee, 31. was awakened at 1 45 a.m. yesterday by her neighbour informing her that two persons were driving her car away. Madam Ng. peeping out of the window in Lorong 13. Geylang. saw the two persons driving away her car which
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 95 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 7.02 a.m. (6.1 ft.) 6.31 p.m. (7.1 ft.) Naval Dockyard- 6.57 a.m. (7.7 ft.); 6.26 p.m. (8.2 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 0.30 a.m. (2.5 ft.); 12.37 p.m. (3.9 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 0.15 a.m. (3.4 ft.); 12.50 p.m. (5.1 ft.) High Tide
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