Eastern Sun, 23 July 1969

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    25 1 EASTERN SUN -3rd ANNIVERSARY BONUS: PRICE 10 CENTS. SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Esftd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1066 Wednesday, 23 July 1969. <jV MC(P) 0737
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    Lock icon 'FOOTPRINTS ON MOON, MARK IN HISTORY'
    841 1 Quarantine Awaits, Before Heroes' Welcome SPACE CENTER, Houston, Tues. (UPI and Reuter) Leaving their footprints on the moon and their mark in history, America's Apollo 11 astronauts broke free of lunar orbit Tuesday and headed home where 18 days of isolation will be their
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    Lock icon The Return Schedule
    161 1 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Tues. (UPI) The Apollo 11 timetable in Singapore time for Wednesday and Thursday based on the NASA flight plan and subject to further revision: WEDNESDAY: 1:02 p.m. Crew begins 10-hour rest period. 11:02 p.m. Crew awakens. 1:07 a m. Chance for a midcourse correction.
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    Lock icon WOMAN'S WORLD FOR MRS. NIXON
    145 1 WASHINGTON. Tue s (UPI) Her wardrobe newly replenished and the White House in experienced hands of a former first lady, Pat Nixon takes off last night on her own round-the-world trip. While her husband is involved in official duties. Mrs. Nixon's schedule will be almost
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    Lock icon Heyerdahl In Barbados
    37 1 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Tues. (UPI) —Thar Hey«dahl and his six crew members arrived here today aboard the M.S. Shenandoah after abandoning their papyrus raft Ra" in the last leg of their trans-Atlantic crossing from Morocco.
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    Lock icon Luna—15: The 'Moon Rock Race' That Flopped On The Moon?
    336 1 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) Both the Russians and its Luna-15 spacecraft are silent on the fate of the mystery craft and its undisclosed mission on the moon after the vehicle was reported to have crashed on the lunar surface late Monday
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    Lock icon New Soviet Satellite Launched
    93 1 MOSCOW. Tues (UPI) The Soviet Union today launched an unmanned satellite into an earth orbit to carry out scientific research, Tass reported. It said Cosmos 290 was functioning normally and orbiting the earth once every 89.8 minutes at altitudes ranging from 124 to 217 miles Its
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    Lock icon United Through Apollo Mission...
    144 1 CHICAGO. Tues. (UPI) Sachihlro Hiraoka. a chef at a Japanese restaurant here was watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on television on Sunday when he became homesick. So Hiraoka, from Kouchi Ken. near Osaka, telephoned his girlfriend in Japan. When he told her he was watching
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    98 1 OCEANPORT. New Jersey Tues (UPI) Hunch players in the estimated crowd of 23.200 horse race fans had their moment at Monmouth Park yesterday. Moon Chase put on a bold stretch run in the third race to win as the eight-dollar choice while astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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    Lock icon Second Raid By Israelis
    93 1 TEL AVIV. Tues (Router) Israeli jets struck at Egyptian military positions along the Suez Canal today for the second time in three days, an Army spokesman said here. The spokesman said the Israeli planes hit Egyptian gun emplacements "and paralysed them" at 2.30 p.m. before returning
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    Lock icon 'GOOD' SAYS GEN. WHEELER
    107 1 WASHINGTON Tue* (UPI) Gen Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned today from a week's inspection trip in Vietnam a nd pronounced the militarv situation there "good." Wheeler said it was too early to tell whether the recent combat lull would continue
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    Lock icon Young Ones 'Caught' In Transit
    295 2 Seasoned Traveller Danny (10) FOR 10-year-old Danny Henderson, a trip to Singapore is certainly his first, but travelling on a plane alone is in fact no strange thing to him. Danny, who was met by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Henderson at the
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    Lock icon Appeal For $10 m Trust Fund For Cultural Promotion
    229 2 THE Chairman of the National Theatre Trust, Dr. Goh Poh Seng, yesterday called on the Government to set up a $lO- National Endowment Fund for the promotion of culture in the Republic. Dr. Goh made this call when he appealed to
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    Lock icon Minister Closes Triad Society's 'False Front'
    173 2 SINGAPORE'S Minister of Defence, Mr. Lim Kim Son, yesterday ordered the dissolution of the Singapore Kong Nam Self-Defence Art and Athletics Association in Mayo Street. The order of the dissolution was made under section 24(1) of the Societies Act 1966, on the grounds that
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    Lock icon STAMP SHOW SATURDAY
    168 2 A GRAND stamD exhibition displaying many valuable and rare collections will be held bv the Singapore Philatelic Socie. ty at the exhibition hall of the Chines# Chamber of Commerce on Saturday and Sundav from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Some of the main interesting features of the
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    Lock icon Police Ban Staging Of 'Tiny Alice'
    406 2 Scheduled Rehearsal Also Stopped THE Pol ice have banned the public performance of "Tiny Alice", written by one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee of "Virginia Wolfe's" fame. The play, presented by the University of Singapore Society, has been scheduled to go on o
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    Lock icon $29,000 NAAFI Robbery Was 'Inside Job' Court Told
    531 2  -  By Peter Ong A $29,000 armed robbery was staged by three men "flawlessly with the connivance of person ar persons working in NAAFI/' a preliminary inquiry was told yesterday. The DPP, Mr. Tommy Neo. was outlining the prosecution's case in which Khairi
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    Lock icon TV 'STAR' ON RAPE CHARGE
    144 2 A well-known harmonica player who has appeared over the Radio and Television Singapura Talentime was charged In the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday on two charges of rape and intending to outrage the modesty of a woman. Yew Fan Choon, alias Yew Hong Jen. was accused
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    Lock icon Seminar Opens At Nantah
    139 2 MORE than 40 prominent scholars in Southeast Asia will this morning begin deliberations on social and behavioural sciences at a seminar at the Nanyang University here. The four-day seminar has been organised by the Association of South-east Asian Institutions of Higher Learning ASAIHL). Amon* the participants
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    Lock icon Two Appear On Murder Rap
    114 2 THE two youths who were alleged to have murdered a Hong Kong couple appeared in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday. Liew Kim Siong and Kee Ah Tee, both 19, were alleged to have stabbed the couple to death at 7-1/4 mile Upper Bukit Timah Road
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    Lock icon 'Nothing Does It Like Good Make-up'
    152 2 A Leading personality of well-known cosmetic company yesterday advised women to employ good make-up sense so as to avoid ending up witb "distorted looks". He is Mr- Victor Harris, vicepresident of Max Factor International Division, who has been "in the business" for 22 years.
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    Lock icon Wire Stealer In Custody
    85 2 AJON bin Shariff. 48. unemployed. was charferi in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday wih theft of communication wires from the railway track in Woodlands Road. 13 mile? on July 22. Senior Inspector Chia Cheng Poh prosecuting. to the court for Ajon to be placed in the
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      85 2 Time tfb Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 4.12 a.m. (6.7 ft.), 4.33 p.m. (7.5 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 418 a.m. (8.2 ft.). 4.33 p.m. (8.8 ft.) Low Tide (Todoy) Singapore Town: 10.03 a.m. (3.2 ft.). 11.08 p.m. (2.4 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 9.46 a.m. (4.2 ft.), 10.38 p.m. (3.1 ft.) High
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      532 3 Omega the first watch worn on the moon salutes the men who took it there The watch in the picture is pretty special. It's been strapped on the wrists of all U.S. astronauts since 1965. It went on the first walk in space, and it made history by being the
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    Lock icon Armstrong, Aldrin Blast Off To Dock With Columbia Later
    1201 4 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Tues. (UPI) America's moon explorers successfully blasted away from the lunar surface yesterday in a "beautiful." do-or-die take-off that started them on their long jdurney home. The crucial rocket blast at 1754 GMT ended Neil Armstrong's and Edwin
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    Lock icon Will Collins Be A Forgotten Man?
    370 4 HOUSTON, Tues, (Reuter) Michael Collins, the "Third Man" of the Apollo-11 moon landing mission, was praised by the Space Agency yesterday as he orbited alone above the moon while his crewmates slept on the barren surface. Doug Ward, Space Agency Public Affairs Officer, praised
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    Lock icon Space Suits Delight Officials
    153 4 SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Tues (UPI) —Space Centre officials were delighted Monday with the pressure suits worn by Neil A Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin during their walk on the moon. Neither man had any complaints about them, a spokesman said. Flight Director Clifford Chariesworth said he
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    Lock icon Moon Colony
    68 4 SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Tues. (UPI) Dr. Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of the U.S. Space Agency thinks the successful lunar landing of Apollo 11 astronauts is a "giant step" toward a permanent moon colony. First must come additional explorations including small research stations manned by scientists. "Mankind Is
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    Lock icon Yearly Fete?
    32 4 WASHINGTON, Tues (Reuter) Legislation will be introduced in Congress to make July 20 a national holiday in the United States to commemorate the moon landing. Sen. Abraham Riblcoff said today.
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    Lock icon Space Suits Would Have Scared Away Moonmaid
    120 4 BONG KONG Tut*. (UPI) There are at least two persons in Hong Kong who were not happy about thr Apollo 11 astronauts' lunar landing and walk Monday. Ah Oi-Che. a 68-year-Old house maid who believes in Chinese mythology. shook her head and said.
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    Lock icon Moon Briefs
    431 4 STADE. West Germany. TueS (Reuter) A 74-year-old pensioner here cou.d stand no more of Apollo 11 on telev sion. So he got drunk and smashed his landlady's television set. The 65-year-old landlady was so incensed that ihe giahbed a hammer and smashed his nose. He landed in hospital
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    Lock icon NIXON CAN'T GET OFF THAT PHONE
    277 4 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) President Nixon, jubilant over the Apollo moon landing, today made a string of telephone calls to thank British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and other leaders personally for their congratulatory messages. "Just talking to Harold Wilson
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    Lock icon Wives Rejoice At Successful Liftoff
    421 4 EL LAGO, Texas, Tues. (UPI) Janet Armstrong, whose technical knowledge of the space programme Is formidable, went into her bedroom with her mother and her older son. Eric. 12. during the crucial countdown yesterday that would determine whether her husband would stav and die on
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    Lock icon Mars Conquest In Eighties?
    106 4 SPACE CENTRE. Houston, Tues (UPI> After Apollo 11. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has three additional moon flights programmed, each carrying new scientific experimental packages to be planted on the lunar surface. It also is asking authorisation for six more missions to carry Apollo
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    Lock icon KOSYGIN
    35 4 MOSCOW. Tues (UPI) Premier Alexel N. Kosyg; n on Monday sent congratulations to the Apollo 11 astronauts as Soviet citizens saw television films of the moonwalk about 12 hours after others taw It live.
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    Lock icon MANUAL CONTROL PREVENTS CRASH
    302 4 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Tues. (UPI) If it hadi been piloted by a computer alone instead of by men. Apollo ll's Eagle lunar landing craft would have crashed on the moon on Sunday. But. Nell Armstrong, taking control awav from his Eagle's computer, piloted his craft down
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    Lock icon SUCCESS MAY DELAY APOLLO 12 LAUNCH
    581 4 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Tues. (UPI) Apollo ll's returning moon explorers. looking for a pinpoint in space to make a safe re-entry to ar h dI their moon mission so well that next U.S. lunar landing flight may be dela>ea. At the Manned Spacecraft Centre,
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    Lock icon 4 Tests Set Up On Moon
    236 4 SPACE CENTFE Houston, Tues. (UPI) Experiments conducted by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. Jr., during their moon walk: SOIL: The most important experiment, in which samples of the moon arp brought back to earth lor testing by the world's top scientists.
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    Lock icon The Shadow Of A Man
    67 4 SPACE CENTRE Hous'en.Tues (L'PI) The shadow of I the first man to valk on the moon was abru» 35 feet long. The lew angle of the sun at the t:me Neil A Armstrong stepped from the Apollo 11 lunar lander onto the ashen grey surface
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    Lock icon They Didn't See
    69 4 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Four Governments kept cr.efourth of Man-kind in ignorance yesterday of Man's attainment of the mcon. The rulers of Communist China. North Korea anrj North Vietnam in Asia and of Albania in Europe withheld the news of Man's greatest achievement from more than 800 million
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    Lock icon U.S. Eases Restrictions On Purchase Of Goods And Travel To China
    349 5 TV"ASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) The State Department announced yesterday restrictions against purchase of Communist Chinese goods by American tourists and the travel ban to China by certain U.S. citizens would be eased, effective tomorrow. The department action, ;vhich comes on
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    Lock icon Schoolboy Wins Bathtub Race
    60 5 VANCOUVER Tues < Reuter) An armada of 153 out-board-powered bathtubs pounded across the choppy Georgia Strait in the third annual Nanaimo-to-Vancouver bathtub race. FourtPen-year-old schooibjy. Glenn Filipponi. survived five, foot waves. 18-mile an hour winds, and a change to win the event on Sunday with a
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    Lock icon US Unmarried Fathers' Moral
    64 5 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) The majority of America's unmarried fathers are aged between 17 and 22. are upright and moral and want to marry the mothers of their children. These were some conclusions announced yesterday after the first nationwide study of the problem. It was carried
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    Lock icon AUSSIE T.V. STAR SHOT DEAD WHILE ENTERTAINING U.S. TROOPS
    224 5 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) Sydney television singing star. Cathy Wayne, who was shot dead on stage while entertaining U.S. troops was advised not to go to Vietnam. Mr. Col Joye. said here today. "Twice before she took notice of our warnings that
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    Lock icon Sabre Jet Crash Kills 8 In Seoul
    150 5 SEOUL. Tues (UPI) A South Korean Air Force FB6D Sabre jet crashed yesterday in Suwon. 20 miles south of Seoul, killing its pilot and eight civilians and injuring another. Air Force Headquarters reported The jet fighter was operating out of Suwon Air Base
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    Lock icon France Proposes C-Mart Summit
    63 5 BRUSSELS. Tues. (Reuter) French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann today proposed a summit conference of the six-nation European Common Market to discuss community problems including Britain's application for membership, authoritative sources said. Mr. Schumann, who was addressing a Common Market Foreign Ministers meeting here, proposed that the
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    Lock icon 'Unchained Melody' Hamilton Dies
    83 5 NEW ROCHELLE. N«W York Tues (UPI) Roy Hamilton. 41. a native of Georgia who once sane in a church choir and recorded pop re s° r °s which sold millions around the world, died on Sundav. Hamilton, whose hit records In the 195°'s included Inchained Melody.
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    Lock icon Britain's Top 20 Heiresses 'Available'
    171 5 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) 1 Gentlemen of slender means today have a new weapon to use In their hunt for fortune a list of the top 20 heiresses In Britain, including their addresses and interests. The list, published in the current issue of Queen Magazine. Includes
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    Lock icon U.S. Pullout Will Not Affect South Korea
    165 5 SEOUL. Tues. <UPI) US. military forces In South Korea will not be affected by a recent decision bv Washington to reduce US. overseas military manpower, according to the top American military commander in Korea. "U S forces in Korea were specifically excluded from
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    Lock icon FREEDOM SWIM
    35 5 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Twelve farmers escaped from Red China yesterday by swimming, police said. Since July 13. 89 refugees have fled to this British Crown Colony located on the rim of China
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    Lock icon Javanese, Baliness Dancers To Greet Nixon At Jakarta Fair
    123 5 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) Massed Javanese and Balinese dancers will greet President Nixon when he visits the Jakarta Fair on July 27 during his forthcoming swing around Asia, a government spokesman said today. The American leader is scheduled to arrive here on
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    Lock icon Siamese Twins Doing Well
    65 5 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) Six month old Siamese twins sharing a common liver, who were separated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunday, are doing well, the Institute said today. Lieutenant-Colonel GC. Tandon. a member of the team which performed the six-hour operation,
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    Lock icon MISS UNIVERSE IS HOMESICK BUT HAPPY
    248 5 "MIAMI BEACH, Florida, Tues. (UPI) Hcmesick but happy, black-haired Gloria Diaz began her first workday as Miss Universe yesterday after being honoured with a coronation ball on Sunday night. The beauty from the Philippines was selected over 15 semi-flnalists at competition here on Saturday
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    Lock icon MONEY QUARRELS BETWEEN J.F.K. AND JACKIE OUT IN A NEW BOOK
    466 5 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) In one of the many budget battles between President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, the President was angry that bills could only be trimmed by $7OO a month, according to a new book to be
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    Lock icon Ottawa Signal To Red China
    72 5 OTTAWA. Tues (UPl)—External Affairs Minister Mr. Mitchell Sharp made it clear yesterday that Canada would cease to recognise Taiwan at any level once mutual diplomatic recognition is achieved with Communist China. Diplomatic sources in Ottawa said the statement was an unmistakable signal to Peking, assuring
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    Lock icon KILLED BY SNIPER FIRE
    63 5 COLUMBUS. Ohio. Tues (UPI) —One person was killed by sniper fire last night after violence broke in an integrated neighbourhood on the East Side of this capital city. National Gaurd troops were ordered into the city"We have sniper fire, looting and firebombing all over the East
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    Lock icon Warm Welcome For Kremlin Leaders
    68 5 WARSAW. Tues (Reuter) Red carpets, flowers and kisses yesterday greeted the leaders of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and East Germany when they arrived here for the 25th anniversary of Communist Poland. The leaders, including Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, laid wreaths on the tomb
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    Lock icon Airport Holdup
    35 5 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Three gunmen, two apparently dressed as Pan American Airways employees, took an estimated $600,000 in cash and jewels yesterday from the airlines safe at John T. Kennedy International Airport.
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    Lock icon King's Brother No Signs Of Foul Play
    156 5 ATLANTA. Georgia, Tues. (Reuter) A post-mortem on Dr. Martin Luther King's brother, found drowned in his garden swimming pool, has revealed no signs of foul play, according to officials here. The body of the Reverend A D. Williams King was found floating in
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    Lock icon GETTING TO KNOW YOU
    652 6 PRESIDENT Nixon's scheduled visit to Rumania via the Asian loop after witnessing the Apollo-11 splashdown is now seen by Asian leaders as a personal diplomacy both to assure allies and voters and to be assured himself on the lumbering gagantua that is US foreign policy commitment.
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    Lock icon MOON, MAN AND MACHINE
    287 6 PEOPLE of the current decade are the most fortunate ones since they can share the joys of the Man's conquest of the moon. The epoch-making success by the American astronauts is significant in two ways. It is a triumph of science and technology as well as
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    Lock icon TODAY'S QUOTATION
    28 6 With effervescing opinions. as with champagne, the quickest way to let them get flat is to 1st them get sxposod to the air. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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    Lock icon The Angry Farmers
    161 6 PARIS. (Reuter) —Angry French farmers are threatening to throw 100.000 tons of peaches and pears on to main roads if the government fails to find a way of disposing of the fruit. A glut of fruit has resulted from extra tren plantin* and good weather. The farmers
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    Lock icon House Of Church Walls
    95 6 NUREMBERG. (DaD) A locksmith in lleilsbronn near Nuremberg (Federal Republic of Germany* who bought a plot of land along with the church on it from a monastery, was only allowed to change the roof on building his house. He was not permitted to raze the no
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    Lock icon N.Z. Protestors Hit The Wrong Target
    754 6  -  By Keith Eunson Gtmini Newt Service WELLINGTON The new Cunard Luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II has as part of its sophisticated navigation system a black cabinet labelled "Omega/' and very soon around the world large ships and small, aircraft and submarines will increasingly place
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    Lock icon Why Many HK Youngsters Leave Their Homes?
    423 6  -  By Tony Nguyen HONG KONG, (Reuter) The influence of Western sophistication on traditional Chinese family life is causing more than 100 Hong Kong youngsters to leave their homes every month. The major factors intluencing young runaways were the clash of generations and the
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    Lock icon The Emerging Big Powers
    745 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP BONN, In Paris, they still talk about Gen. de Gaulle's departure and their own domestic politics. In London, except among the experts, the main topics are the prospects of an early British election and the peculiar ways of the new American ambassador, Walter Annenberg.
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    Lock icon The Five First Ladies Whom Nixon May Meet
    859 6  -  By Lee Dilworth MANILA, (UPI) In the man's world that supposedly is Asia, President and Pat Nixon will meet during the forthcoming tour four women who would be strong in any society. But the fifth of the Asian First Ladies is so
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon PRICES DIP FURTHER ON A WEAK MARKET
      325 7 By OUR MARKET REPORTER THE Stock Exchange of Malaysia, and Siniranor* vpst*r<i«w m,i.j .1... priees dipped further o n a weak market. Losses tended ta iharaa? will spread well across the board. tended to sharpen and were J market opened easier but rallied
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      1110 7 TMJBINESS done in and reported to the tradinr rooms of the Stock Ezchance of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS ACMA $1.72 CD; Ben $lB2 «2J I SIT 9 (1); Borneo $164 (2) $163
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      Lock icon RUBBER (75 7/8Cts) MARKET QUIET
      300 7 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m., In Singapore and Kuals Lumpur yesterday at 75-7/8 cents per lb., up one auarter of a cent from the previous close. The tone of of the market was quiet. Priees eased fractionally after the market
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      234 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 23; DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 1/2 Hammonia 6/7 Nicoline Maersk 13/14 Antilochus N.W.4/5 Petaling 21/22 Rajah Brooks 31/32 State of Madras 40/41 Himeji Maru 44 Yoshinosan Maru 45 Pando Sound N.W.5 Trane ARRIVALS
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      Lock icon Industrials At Lowest Levels For Two Years
      212 7 LONDON, Tue«. <ur» Industrial shares slumped to their lowest levels for about two years yesterday and ahortly before the bell the index fell 5.6 to 364.1 to set a new 1969 low. British government bonds, however, ran against the tide and posted a
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      Lock icon SAS Total Traffic For May Up
      126 7 SCANDINAVIAN Airlines total traffic for May was 14 per cent above the same month last year, amounting to 55.6 million revenue tonkilometres, Mr. John Hoyer, general manager of SAS for Singapore, Malays.a and Brunei, announced recently. Overall capacity rose 20 per cent to 114
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      Lock icon INSTRUCTORS COURSE FOR IBM MANAGER
      75 7 MR. VERNON MARTINUS. personnel/communications manager of IBM World Trade Corporation Singapore/Malaysia has been assigned to a three-month management development instructors course in Europe and the United States. The course itinerary will take him to New York, Copenhagen, Sweden. Holland and Beirut. Mr. Martinus returns to
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      Lock icon $150 m. Japanese Credit Okayed
      61 7 BUENOS AIRES, Tues. (UPI) Foreign Minister Mr. Juan B. Martin has announced approval of a U.S.$ 150 million Japanese credit for the renovation of Argentina's railroad system. Mr. Martin announced the credit the largest single one Argentina has received from any foreign country on his
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $627-12$ per picul, up $2.00.
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      Lock icon Promotions For Bank Executives
      147 7 THE Chase Manhattan Bank. N. A., recently announced the promotion of two executives to assistant manager operations. They are Mr Yeo I.ik Kim in Singapore and Mr. Leow Bock Lim in Kuala Lumpur. Mr Yeo. an associate of the Institute of Bankers, London, joined Chase In
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      Lock icon London Rubber Market Closes Idle
      81 7 LONDON. Tuev (LTI) Rubber market yesterday closed idle with spot 27-1/4. 27-1/2 nom. Settlement House Aug 27-1/8. 27-1/4 Sept 27-1/8, 27-3/8 Oct 27. 27-1/4 Oct/Dec 28-15'16. 27-1/8 Jan/Mar 2«-l/4 28-7/18 Apr/June 25-13/18. 28 July/Sept 25-5/8. 25-13/18 Oct 'Dec 25-1/2. 25-11/18 Jan' Mar 25-3/8, 25-9/18 Apr/June
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      76 7 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Money Quotations: Hong Kong dollars 6.***** per U.S. dollar Hong Kong dollars 6 0975 per U.S. dollar TT Hong Kong dollars 14.54 per pound sterling Hong Kong dollars 309.125 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness Hong Kong dollars 182.0 per 10.000 Japanese
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      171 7 SYDNEY. Tu»|. Qantas Airways will eommene# a service to Bali on Aug. 8. The chairman of Qantas, Sir Roland Wilson, aaid that subject to government approval, the servic# will operate once a week in each direction Sydney/ London and London/Sydney. The service will depart Sydney each
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      128 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Gold prices rose in moderately sctive trsding yesterday ©n markets here and abroad. In London, gold gained 8 cents to 42 00 dollars a troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at that level for the second fixing Gold
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      136 7 TOKYO. Tues (UPI> The Japan Biscuit Association disclosed yesterday it has made representation to the Minister of Agriculture and Industry against the proposed tleup between a well-known American Biscuit Co. and two Japanese firms. The association said it is opposing the plan of
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      66 7 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Some 78.4 per cent of 2.471,904 defective Japanese cars reported earlier to the Ministry by domestic auto makers and foreign car importers have been recalled for repair, according to the Transport Ministry. The Ministry said corrective steps were taken on a total of 1,937.561
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      145 7 FY1HB 61nx*por* Rubber Broke X tag laformettoo ta reepeci the weeJc eodta* July IE. iMB ft CV (HC) July SMR ft OV «HC) August I n Aatoeutioa bii supplied the followt of busiaeee transacted tn IMRI for Beg* 44 ceate premium traded. PiTiete 4* ceau premium buyer*.
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      Lock icon Aussie Skim-milk For Asian Milk Plants
      129 7 CANBERRA, Tues. Australian manufacturers are being invited to supply about 20.000-tons of spray dried skim-milk powder to Asian milk plants for the 1969-70 season. The product is required for milk recombining plants operated_as joint ventures by a sub- sidiary company of the Australian Dairy
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      639 7 SINGAPORE Stock Exchange sold and other prices officially listed at the clo»e of butioMs. industrial* AC MA Ben Co. CD B. S 1 65 l.rf 1 72 iKi 1 64 liorneo Bhd. 162 1 80 Bouktead ml Camel Plywood XBI C. liucar lis $.20 Hi Cold
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      132 7 THE Association of Bank* in Malavsia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of ion units of foreign currency)-. SELLING TT or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.1100; Holland Guilders $84.6375; Swiss Francs $71.5800; Belgian Francs $6 1475; French
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      52 7 (Manager* Prlo« 2 66 •> l«t Malayan \n 2nd Malayan XD 1.92 3rd Malayan 1 21 The Com. Ind .96 1 06 The Saving Fund 1 06 116 M. Invest Fund 1,2-S 1.3* 1st Hone Konc 1.50 1 .56* 2nd Hong Kong XD 1.02 1.0** Sterling Com 5/8
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      100 7 THE noon prices at tne fclnf*pore Chinese Produca Excnants yesterday were a— Buyer Coconut Oil 48 00 (FOB.) Bulk Coconut Oil 50.50 (FOB > Drum Mixed Copra Muni oh White Pepper 30 SO I 130 00 (FOB.) Sarawak White Pepper 127 50 (FOB.) Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FO B.)
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      399 7 ARRIVALS. 5-00 am. MSA MLO29 Kuala Lumpur. 11ia.m. s>As SK97B Bangkok, laobkent, Copenhagen. 9.00 am. MSA MLII 9 Kuala Lumpur. 10.10 un. GARIiDA GABOO Jakarta. 10.15 a.m. MSA MLI2I Kuala Lumpur. 10-25 a-m. MSA MLOOB Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 10.50 a.m. THAI TG42B Bangkok. 1.10 pm. MSA
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      82 7 SHIPPING NOTICE PasseneerLiner M/S "TAIPOOSHAN",I2.OOOTo«Cro^Sp^IIK B FORTNIGHTLY BX*E*BS BEBVICB fO» HONGKONG -MNGAMII FCNANG Bmgape 25 M July 10 11 Aug 2« 27 Aug 11 12 Sept Penang 27 t» July 12 14 Aug 2K :;0 Ant 13 15 Sept Singapore 30 31 July 15 16 Aug 31 Aug 1 Sept
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      14 7 Thai International now flies to more countries in the Orient than any other airline
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    469 9 Paul travelled VI the way to Arnerici from Europe to take off her clothes. Her shedding, down to a form-fitting bra and bikini takes place in Hollywddd where she is portraying a sexy French stripper "named Suzette in Paramount's
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    Lock icon London Philharmonic Orchestra To Visit Singapore In September
    489 9 RITAIN'S widely arclaim--9 ed London Philharmonic Orchestra is due to visit Singapore in mid-September where it will give two eoncerts as part of its 1969 Far East tour. Programmes have been arranged for September 13 and 14 (Saturday and Sunday) at the
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    Lock icon JOAN SAYS IT'S NOT TRUE, BUT FRIENDS INSIST IT IS
    551 9  -  By SHEILAH GRAHAM LONDON, Tues. "Did yo J know/' soid a fnend of theirs, "that the Joan Collins marriage to Anthony Newley is on the rocks?" I said I did not. But if it is true and Joan vehemently denies
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    438 9  -  illl, By Sheilab Graham. LONDON. Tues. The audience was packed for the premiere performance of "The Young Churchill." But there were two people who had more than just passing Interest in it 19-year-old Arabella Churchill, Sir Winston's grand-daughter, and Carl Foreman (he was
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      42 9 SINGAPORE CHESS FEDERATION 150 th ANNIVERSARY 1819 1969 >< Festival of Chess F. I. D. E. East AsTin Zone Championship Festival Open Championship. at the Faculty of Medicine, Singapore 3. 3-21 August 1969. Daily 6 pm. Sponsored by THE CHUNG KHIAW BANK t-TD,
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      280 9 I #SHAW i352SM I Q. O .Phone ***** i H4 I LAST DAT! U a.m. 1.45. 4.00. 6.30 A 9 15 pjb. Clint Walker. Vincent Price "MORE DEAD THAN A LIVE" Anne Francis Color (UA) ©pens Tomorrow Christopher George Laraine Stephens in "The 1,000 Plane Raid" Color <TTA) NOW SHOWING
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      23 9 TODAY an Wednesday, July 23, 1969. 8 CANCER JONI V t: >ll-27-29-53 '63-71-76 r.' JULY 21 ,23 37-46-58 3-10-12-24 31-60-75 1 2K ffi
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      331 9 GANISATION ORCHARD —***** Last DayZ 1.30, 4. 6 30, 9 15 p m Jame* Gamer In "MARLOWE" Metrocolor (MGMt OPENS TOMORROW' "HELLO DOHX THERE' «Ia Co:or> Janet Leigh 'Paramount Picturei CAT HAY 3340CT Last Day! 11, 1.30, 4 00, 6.30 ft 9.30 "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Vs. THE MOB' Peter Grave? Color
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      230 10 By BIG BEN IPOH, Tues. Sri Lipis did a sparkling gallop on good going here this morning. With a riding boy astride he clocked 37 4/5. Shareholder a'so revealed top form when he ran half a mile in 51 2/5. the last 3f in 38. Shareholder, now
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      1110 10 Horses Class Dlv. 2 6 Furs. 630 De la ma re 4v 900 Goldmine Stable Spencer 080 Binjai Park 7y 900 Mr Mr*. EA Clark Samsuri 811 Green Sword 6y 9 00 Dai© ii Datm K-L Chong Teh 175 Forest Law 6y 9.00 M ML Stable
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      122 10  -  By Jimmy Lad Well-known Sydney jockey. George Podmore. has arrived here to ride under retainer to Bukit Timah trainer Colin Tulloh. He leaves for Ipoh tomorrow and will be seen in action there this weekend. George. 43. started racing at the age of 14 and has
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      Lock icon Australian To Train Local Swim Coaches
      217 10  -  By R. NATHAN SINGAPORE Amateur Swimming Association will pay Australia's Vic Arneil. one of the top swimming coaches in his country. SlO.OOO to train local coaches. This was stated at the Management Committee's meeting yesterday. Arneil coached the Australian swimming star William Cavendish —in
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      Lock icon Dorothy vs Seah Judo Final Today
      444 10 DOROTHY Pang of Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus will meet her school-mate Seah Geok Keow in the girls 'open* final of the third Schools' National Judo championships at the Chung Hwa Girls' High School Hall. Hartley Road, today at 2.30 p.m. Dorothy qualified
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      Lock icon Gloucs Face Stiff Task Against Glamorgan
      453 10 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) West Indian seam bowler Tony Cordle put Glamorgan in a commanding position in their top-of-the-table vlash with County championship leaders Gloucestershire yesterday. Cordle took six for 21 as Gloucestershire slumped to 1"" all out 220 behind secondplaced Glamorgan's first innings. Glamorgan
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      19 10 NEW YORK. Tues There were no major league baseball .games yesterday because of the moon walk
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      188 10 By Eastern Knight THE Asian and Pacific zone championship will be held i n Singapore from August 3 —21. This is th. first elimination round for the world title which is now held by Boris Spassky Up to date, the entries are:— Australia: Walter Shawn Browne Terre
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      Lock icon Landrovers Top List In BP Rally
      179 10 FIFTEEN makes of vehicles from a total of 64 entries have entered for the forthcoming 1969 BP South Malaysian Rally, making it a grand "show of wheels". The breakdown for the Rally: Austin <B>. Toyota (7>, Ford (6». Peugeot (3). Opel. Volvo. Vauxhall. Singer.
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      Lock icon Gift Vouchers To Winners Of Bowling Marathon
      413 10  -  By JOHN HSU JACKIE'S Bowl at Katong will be organising I 40-game "Daybreaker" on Aug. 30. Prizes for this arm-tearing, ba c k-brealung and energy-sapping bowling marathon will include 5&. UO worth of gift vouchers and new Japanese-manufactured watches under the name "Orient".
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      Lock icon Tiong Bahru Big Walk
      66 10 The Working Committee of Tiong Bahru Constituency will hold their eight-mil* Big-Walk' competition in conjunction with the Republic's 150 th anniversary and the National Day Celebrations, on Aug. 17. The competition is open to all and entry fee per competitor Is 50 cents. Closing date is
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      313 10 A NEW ZEALAND rugbs! coach. Mr EL. Cheritoni will arrive in mid-September to coach young rugby players in schools and the Singapore Armed Forces This was stated yesterday by the Press Liaison Officer of the Singapore Rugby Union, Captain J.R. Forsythe. He said: "In a
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      Lock icon Babe Ruth Is The 'Greatest'
      131 10 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) Babe Ruth was named the greatest baseball player ever J oe Dimaggio the greatest K!J > ayer by the Baseball writers Association of America and the nation's sportscasters and television announcers. it was disclosed last night. tl ,P e writers and representatives
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      1692 11  -  By Little Nene THE 17th annual Canada Cup and International Trophy Championship will be played at the Singapore Island Country Club from October 2-5. The Canada Cup dates were approved by the Professional Golf Association of America and were announced by Sidney L. James,
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      Lock icon Pep To Referee World Title Fight
      131 11 SYDNEY Tues (UPI) American Willie Pep was today named as referee for next Monday's world featherweight boxing championship between Japanese Fighting Harada and Australia* Johnny Famechon. Pep. himself a great featherweight champion, accepted the offer after a telephone call from co-promoter. Mike Barrett. Teddy
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      112 11 UTRECHT. Holland. Tues. (Reuter) British-born Guy Wolstenholme. of Australia, won the £6OO Dutch Open golf championship by five strokes on the Pan Course near here yesterday. Wolstenholme carded a 63 and 69 for the final two rounds yesterday to finish with a 72hol® aggregate of 277.
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      104 11 THE new mark of 5,023 points was recently set up as a world record by Heide Rosedahl of Leverkusen during a pentathlon meeting between athletes from Germany and Soviet Union in Heidelberg. The 22-year-old sports student thus became the first woman
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      Lock icon 8 Newcomers In US Walker Cup Team
      248 11 NEW YORK. Tues. <Rfcut«r) The United States Golf Association yesterday named eight newcomers In their Waiker Cup team to meet Britain In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, On Aug. 22-23. The ten-man squad of amateurs include one teenager and six players in their twenties. Only William
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      91 11 GSTAAD. Switzerland, Tues. (Reuteri Top seeded Tony Roche of Australia has withdrawn from the SwLss Open tennis championships starting here today because of a shoulder injury, it was announced last night. Wimbledon champion Ann Jones of Britain Is seeded to meet American Billie-Jean K:ng
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      228 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter)—Britain veSterdav named an unchanged team for their Davis Cup inter-zone semi-final against Brazil at Wimbledon on Julv 31 to August 2. Full of confidence after completing a 3-2 weekend victory over South Africa in their European Zone Section "A" final, Britain
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      66 11 SAO PAULO. Brazil. Tues. (Reuter) Brazil completed a 4-1 victory over Mexico in the final of the Latin American Zone of the Davis lawn tennis Cup here yesterday In the final two singles Mexican champion Joaquin Lo_ vo Mayo beat Jose Ed?on Mandarino 2-6. 5-7. 7-5.
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      1143 11 •*YOVR .♦•< )<£&**»* (CHANNEL 5) P.M 3.00 Opening Announcements in all Languages Housewives Matinee Part 1 of a Hokkien Film. '"Snh Chmg"; 3 15 House and Home Chine.-e; 340 A Diary of Events in Singapoie This Work Chinese. 345 Be Our Guest English; 400 It's Happening in Singapore Malay. 4
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