Eastern Sun, 11 July 1970

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    19 1 EASTERN SUN wtional daiy 10 cents Estd. 1966 Vol. 4 No. 1392. Saturday, July 11, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon ALL QUIET NOW AT VARSITY
    297 1 TTUALA LUMPUR The disclosure of Tun Abdul Rozok os Choncellor of the Universiti Kebongsoon (Notionol University) pacified on emotion-pocked audience of agitating students here yesterday. The announcement made by Sarawak's new Chief Minister, Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, was greeted by cheering students some weeping
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    Lock icon COLOURFUL DANCERS
    30 1 /Y5AKA, Japan Colourful dressed Chinese girls perform the Ribbon Dance at the Festival Plaza during the Republic, of China's National Day, yesterday, in Expo 10. UPI UPI radiophoto.
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    Lock icon Outram grouse: It's just teething trouble—HDB
    278 1 "17ARIOUS complaints made by shopkeepers at the Outram Park Complex were dismissed as "teething troubles" yesterday by a spokesman of the Housing and Development Board. He said the parking fees should not be cut down from 40 cents to 20 cents after 5 p.m
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    Lock icon MANILA'S DRUG ADDICTS
    98 1 MANILA Drug taking has become rampant In the Manila area and some 7,000 youths, mostly students, have become addicted to marijuana and other habit forming drugs, the Manila Police department disclosed yesterday. Of these 7,000 "pot" addicts, 5,000 are residents of the working district of Tondo, according
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    Lock icon HOUSEWIFE TELLS COURT OF HUBBY'S SEX EXCESS
    282 2 HOUSEWIFE yesterdoy complained in the High Court that her salesman husband wanted sex six times a week. Madam Doris Tang Ah Siok, 33, said this in her petition to the High Court for a divorce from her husband, Jimmy Wong Teik Ong. Madam
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    Lock icon Boy finds his home burgled
    106 2 SCHOOLBOY Teng Ah Lek, 14, saw four men walk out of the back-door of his house yesterday in Jalan Hwl Yoh. He went in and no ticad his house ransacked and $5OO in cash and jewellery worth $l,OOO missing. A pupil of Hwi Lek Secondary
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    Lock icon More use of natural rubber
    159 2 KUALA LUMPUR The natural rubber Industry must look to the tyre manufacturing sector for further absorption of increasing natural rubber production in the future, the Bth Planters Conference here was told yesterday. In a paper "Consumer Requirements for Natural Rubber In the Seventies," Mr. O.
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    Lock icon Soldiers back home alter 'Jungle Survival' training
    314 2 gIGHTEEN crew members of the Singapore Armed Forces, who underwent a week's training on "Jungle Survival" in Kota Tlnggi, returned home yesterday. The course was conducted by the Royal Air Force under the guidance of Flight Lt John Boddlngton. Bgt. Mel Held and
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    Lock icon William Holden is in town
    85 2 A MERICAN film actor William Holden is in town on a week'* private visit. He slipped in Thursday night and was only met by Mr. Tham Yet Ting (left), Alitalia's District Sales Manager for Singapore, East Malaysia and Brunei. Mr. Holden refused to comment on
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    Lock icon LUCKY WINNER OF $20,000 TOTO DRAW
    172 2 Singapore Pools (Pte) Limited, organisers of the nationwide Toto Draws announced that on Thursday's draw one person got four numbers plus the additional number correct. The lucky winner will receive (20,000. Bought He bought his Toto ticket from Changi Road overhead bridge's Toto booth.
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    Lock icon Held for robbing schoolboy
    74 2 A MAN was arrested yesterday morning near Pasir Panjang Road by two detectives from Queens town Police Station who had laid in ambush. He had on July 6 robbed a 13-year-old schoolboy of nis watch at m.s. Pasir Panjang Road. Alter be was arrested, he led
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    Lock icon Fined for pornography
    39 2 A hawker Ow Chop Chiu, 30 was fined $2OO for selling three pornographic magazines at the back lane oI Desker Road. Ow, who had one previous conviction, admitted the offence on July 9, at 5 p.m.
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    Lock icon BAIL GRANTED TO RAPE CASE MAN
    156 2 fFHE High Court yesA terday granted bail of $lO,OOO in one surety to former police sergeant Zainal Abidin bin All, 40. Abidin is alleged to have raped a woman at the Yong Nam Hotel In Oeylang on January 9 this year. Also charged with
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    Lock icon Coconut-picking the wet way
    269 3 One way to get a coconut from the top of a tall palm is to call out No. 116 Army Fire Brigade, stationed at 3 Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra, Singapore. A powerful jet from one of the Brigade's appliances will bring down a nut in anything
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    Lock icon Housekeeping ordeal of a waitress
    148 3 The High Court heard how a waitress was beaten up whenever she requested money from her husband for household expenses. There were frequent quarrels over this matter. Madam Tan Slew Hong was petitioning for a dissolution of her marriage to her mili-tary-police husband. Wang Chin
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    Lock icon NO PIONEER STATUS NOW
    50 3 The Government will in future not grant any more pioneer status to companies producing exclusively for the home market, Government policy will be to encourage the establishment of industries with a higher degree of technology in manufacture, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement today-
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    Lock icon Fined $1,000 for bribery
    49 3 A van-driver, Chua Kim Seng, was fined $l,OOO in a District Court yesterday, for corruptly offering a gratification of $2. to a police constable. He admitted chat on Jun« 5, he offered P. G Ahmad Simmuri, $2. for forbearing to report him lor traffic offence.
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    Lock icon WANTED FOR 13 OFFENCES: EXTRADITION FOR RRITON
    160 3 A BRITISH subject, Brian Stanley Attwood, wanted for 13 offences in his homeland, was ordered to be extradited to the United Kingdom by a Magistrate's Court on Thursday* Attwood alias Brian Stanley Barwood alias Brian Sibley Attwood, was arrested in Singapore on June
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    Lock icon USSR bureau on trade in Kuala Lumpur
    116 3 KUALA LUMPUR, The Soviet trade representative here has set up "a commercial information bureau" to provide local businessmen w ith first-hand information on Russian products. The representative. B.V Kokorev, announced that the bureau will be opened on Friday. It will provide all the
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    Lock icon INDOCHINA BATTLEFIELD MAY NOW SPREAD TO THAILAND
    277 4 DANGKOK Fears mounted here yesterday that the Indochina battlefield would spread to Thailand following reports of Communist infiltration along the country's north eastern border with Cambodia. Police sources in Bangkok said the Incursions into the border province of Si Sa Ket took place
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    Lock icon London tin
    25 4 LONDON Tin was quieter Thursday with 155 tons Spot buyers 1,441, sellers 1,443 business 1,443. 3-month buyers 1,446 sellers 1,447 business 1,446 1,447.
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    Lock icon Devaluation
    22 4 RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's central bank Thursday devalued the Cruselro to 4i9 4.62 to the dollar from its previous 4.53 4.56.
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    Lock icon Red Army enters Thailand villages
    203 4 trict, just across the border from the Thai provincial capital of Übon, 440 miles northeast of Bangkok. Police sources said Cambodian officials believed there were about 2,000 Vietcong entrenched in the villages of Cheom Ksan in readiness for a major attack across the border. Reinforcement
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    Lock icon Iceland Premier, wife and a grandchild killed in blaze
    253 4 REYKJAVIK. Iceland Premier Bjarne Bendiktsson, his wife and one of their grandchildren, died in a fire which gutted the Prime Minister's official summer residence, a government spokesman said yesterday. Reported Radio Iceland reported that the 62-year-old Prime Minister. hU wife and
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    Lock icon She was afraid of losing her job
    363 4 FEAR of losing her job after the British pull-out led a domestic servant drink five bottles of Chinese medicated oil. But before she died, she also expressed to her elder sister her stupidity in doing so. This was told yesterday at a Coroner's
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    Lock icon Machine -The first of its kind
    148 4 The first cane harvesting machine of its kind, valued at more than $lOO,OOO. has arrived in Malaysia and was recently delivered to Quia Perak Berhad for its plantation near Ipoh. Perak Mr. Ron Downs, a cane field product specialist from Australia w *s tent
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    Lock icon Man who bit off ear held
    134 4 OOLICE have detained a man who bit off part of the ear of a Sindhi businessman two days ago The man. about 30. was arrested in a house In Orchard Road at 1.15 am. yesterday morning by a squad of police officers He entered
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    Lock icon A CLUE TO CLAW HAMMER KILLINGS?
    280 7 SAN GABRIEL, Colifornio Police here ore mamtoining vigils at the hospital beside of the latest victims of the claw hammer killer. The murderer is believed to be also responsible for 4 deaths in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Fred Sen IT, 38. is on*
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    Lock icon UNIQUE SOUVENIR
    41 7 NATIONALIST CHINESE VICE-r*fcBl DENT C K. YEN (left) rettWci an autographed bat«fball from Sadararu Oh iright) of ike Tokyo Gianir borne ran kin*The occasion was during the Republic of China's National Daj ceremony at Expo '7f. <UPI (UPI radiophoto)
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    Lock icon CLOSE SHAVE FOR AGNEW
    76 7 DENVER, Colorado. Vice-President Agnew narrowly escaped serious injur? on Thursday on the stage of the Brown Palace Hotel here. He was then addressing about 500 jelegates at a conference of educators and state officials. A 10-foot oblong section of stage lights dropped suddenly to within a
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    Lock icon USSR skylabs up by the end of 1970's
    313 7 MOSCOW Russia might launch inter-planetary space probes from platforms orbiting Earth probably by the end of the 1979*5, a top Soviet scientist disclosed. Academician Mstislav Keldysh. President of the Academy of Sciences, told a press conference two major problems had to be
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    Lock icon BID TO HALT DOCK STRIKE
    178 7 LONDON Government officials made an all-out bid yesterday to prevent a nation-wide dockers' strike which would be a blow to Britain's economy. The country's 47,000 duckers are all set to stop wort next Tuesday In the first official national strike In the ports since 1926.
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    Lock icon Crowded bus plunges into pond: India
    112 7 BOMBAY At tnwt 25 people were feared It have drowned yeaterday wbea a crowded bw skiJ lrd off the read and plunged into a pond sear a village 32 miles aortheast of here. Rescue workers were hampered by torrential rain but managed to drag
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon TOP TOPICS AT ROGERS' MEETING WITH SIR ALEC
      356 7 LONDON Middle East. Indochina developments and East-West relations will be among key topics of talks here between William Rogers. U.K. Secretary of state and Sir Alec DouglasHome, the British Foreign Secretary. The? will also Include the possible resumption of British sales of
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    Lock icon SHOPS IN OUTRAM PARK COMPLEX
    274 8 HOPKEEPERS who have been uprooted by Urban Renewal projects and have relocated themselves In the Outram Park Complex are legitimately complaining; that they are not able to maintain the turnover of business which they had at the original site. There is no doubt this is
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    Lock icon 'TIGER CAGES'
    234 8 Whatever Saigon may try to say In defence of Con Son "tiger cages", It will not cut much ice among freedom-loving people. The treatment meted out to hundreds of prisoners held in small cages with minimal food and water pollutes the very air in which free nations draw
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    Lock icon Is German boom for export ?
    570 8  - Is German boom for export By Bruce Biossat rpHE West German economy, though overheating now like America's, it still embarrassingly successful in world markets. So its leader s today talk of promoting further an already developing global economy In which it would be a principal collaborator but not annoyingly dominant.
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    Lock icon Illusions about sex
    383 8  -  By DICK WEST CONTRARY to the impression most laymen probably have formed, some psychologists believe sexual interest among young people is declining. If that be true, then President Nixon probably has hit upon the explanation for it. In comments attributed to him in a recent magazine article,
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    Lock icon FIRST AID
    121 8  -  t7||tMIIIIIIUI:lllilJIIIII.II||lll| M I i un f 'in in m ro nil! nu I II ii (uf v'l R1& fl ■BUilnim. mil J hd' hiin mMniJ ARTHUR CHEW. If your office colleague falls down and fractures his leg, you probably call for a doctor. In the meantime, you are
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      32 8 EASTEHN SIIN Stnoavore'B Own National Dail* SATURDAY. JULY 11, 1970 23-§. CiotoMMH In 4. 19. Ulan Sultan, Singapore 2 x Kwli Lumpur Malaysia TaJepfcoua: ***** 7 T«toptio*«: *****/6 Cable Addrets: AW NEWS
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      61 8 foreign new* and (M. tares appearing in all edition* uf the Eastern Han and The sun are from: Ken ten. United Press International. A fence Fran«>e Prease Editors Press syndicate Newspaper Enterprise Association Pahlbtiers (tall Syndicate Los Angeles Time* Hjndloaie, Gemini News Service. North American NewaPsper Alliance rtnl eat area.
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    Lock icon RACE DAY SPORTS LIFTOUT
    1225 9 Race 1: CI. 6 Div. 2—SVi p.m. ($4,500) 1. ***** Lord Car rig 4y 900 Carrig (Heddle) Harbridge 2 2. ***** Bulldozer 8y 8.13 Champion (Heddle) 3 ***** Scorpio U 5y 810 Bengs (E Donnelly) 4. ***** Tartanga 5y 810 Tartanga (Teh) 5. ***** Kingford 5y
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    Lock icon SELECTIONS
    186 9 DENNI BOY CISCO ZODIAC HACK 1! j 3 8CORPIO 11 4 Tartanga 6 king ford < 3 (8) 111 8CORPIO 11 MIhm Kacontenr Gwerle 3 HCOKPIO 11 (a Gwerle 4 Tartanga HACK S: m <»> KO. MELAYU Patalti wan 11 Chll| Ujniutj <T> <11! PAHLAWAN 11 K|. Mrla.tu Capitcclao
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    Lock icon Panglima Larut II has winning chance
    851 10 pANGLIMA LARUT II hot not shown up so for but in todoy's weok field he should easily moke the grade to score his maiden win. The four-year-old gelding by Sing Sing (sire of Werribee) came with an impressive record. As a two-year-old he won
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    Lock icon JOHNARA IN SMART TRIAL
    233 10 By Our Racing Correspondent PENANG Johnara did a splendid gallop here this morning. With jockey L. Harbridge astride, Johnara sprinted smartly over 3f in 38 1/5 oc good going. JASBO, a first up winner, showed good form when he went faultlessly over 3f. in ?8-2/5 with
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    Lock icon Varsity sports meet
    73 10 For the first time In 18 years the University of Singapore will hold Its annual sports meet on an lnter-faculty basis. The 19th annual meet will be hel( at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre today at 2.00 p.m. The switch-over from the inter-hostel to ln-ter-faculty version is
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    Lock icon Promotion for seven
    386 10 PROMOTIONS:— From Class 2 to Class 1: Able Envoy Ultraman, String O'Pearls, Forest Jim. Frou Class 5 to Class 3:— Ten No Trumps. From Class 4 to Class 3:— Fortune Hunter. From Class 5 to Class 4:— Sun Rage. DEMOTIONS: From Class 1 to Class Z:— Hokoru,
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    Lock icon U.S. team's clear win
    184 10 PARIS The touring U.S. track and field team swamped France in their two-day meet at the Stade Colombes on Thursday pulling back from a 50-56 overnight deficit to ease home by 117 to 94. In all the Americans, sadly disappointing on Wednesday's events, took nine of
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    Lock icon Acosta backs decision
    154 10 TOKYO, Whereas Japanese featherweight champion Kunlakl Shibata and his manager Kenji Yonekura were complaining about the scoring of the match against Venezuela's Jose Acosta last Wednesday, the Venezuelan boxer was satisfied with the outcome. The match ended in a draw with the referee and a judge seeing
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    Lock icon Lee Van Cleef ready to fight
    55 13 Hsre he it, Lee Von Cleef, the "bod" from the dollar series Westems. The Good, The Bod And The Ugly, this time in Borquero. And again Lee Van Cleef is big, tough and mean ready to fight and die for his rights. Borquero will
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    Lock icon Up and coming star rejects nudity
    553 13  -  By Sheilah Graham 'T SHALL keep the public guessing about my rear end for the rest of my life." Frank Langello, a newcomer with "Star" written all over his sexy face, was discussing the current passion for nudity on the stage and screen. I
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      30 13 RENO 37 COFFEE HOUSE Quick Lunch different everyday and Delicious Dishes Served Specialist in Ice Cream and Italian Pastries. 37, EAST COAST ROAD, SINGAPORE, 15. (Opposite Palace Theatre) Teli *****1
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      274 13 [lido HHon» *****4 NOW MOWINOI 1L I.4ft, i Ml »JI ■OA BINH" to Color (Prom Warner Bros.) TONIOHT MIDNIOHT at LIDO 4k CAPITOL Una Tun "■BLLGATB" i A BHAW PRODUCTION i Mandarin to Scope oo.or C APITOL ",g Open* Mm If* Pro Lint If. I.M. 4.M. «.g. M> p.». HKCBBT
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      1502 14 LOOKING AND LISTENING....^ Saturday, July fl, 1970. STAR GAXEIC'^ a\m.» iV<*ari» [?N 3-17 r- j <M3S M (•(MINI rx?. *1 H KwMfcAdMyM* H <> jUewrfieg I* A« S4or«. T To cfaylop misiog* for Saturday, nod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. CHANNIL m .M 1.06 (Opening snncts.
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    Lock icon THE MAN BEHIND BURT BACHARACH
    619 15  -  By Roger Doughty rpHE knock on today's songs, According to those who used to bunny-hop to yesterday's songs, is that "you can't understand the words they don't make any sense they just don't write them like they used to." But then there's Hal David, who
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    Lock icon James Garner returns to television
    479 15 Jim Garner, that rare actor who became a movie star offer starring in a television series, will return to the tube next year (1971-72) in an hour-long show of his own. The tall, handsome Garner made his mark in "Maverick", and quiet to play on
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon New deal on social welfare
      263 16 rpHEY ktpl these katy hoMvim, «W t»wm»4 tb« Weffw* Awod» tioa is November 1969. S«M «f Hmb M take tmmm mtt trmm tW te dtarf IM"\l/_ we nerve Qrown we started with o group of 27 housewives. but now we hove well over o hundred
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      Lock icon Lovely lady who has hairy arms
      270 16  -  Ann Landers sET*"Ey w >■»» i s SO BMKII 1 c««li y 5 rtLTJTS 2*S bc<ki km Should 1 Ml Iht h*r**j lady that dw can easily hhiii tke hair with a iryilafcarj wax treatment? hair is part* of "H cult tare a Italy.
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      Lock icon LEGS ARE STILL 'IN'
      71 16 THE legs will continue to be fashion points, no matter what the skirt lengths be next season. But the styles in hosiery will change to accommodate longer skirts. First, opaque and partly opaque pantyhose will call attention to legs. Next, colours «iD change to deep or
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      Lock icon IT'S MINIS FOR MEN...
      497 17  -  AND MINUS THE 0 SPORRAN, ASKED FOR IT! *T Marianne Pereira think this little lot over very, very carefully, dear ladies and all gentle people. Are yov, out of that miserable pittance HE gives you to stay looking younger than your years and skinnier than you
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Prices slump in stock market
      273 18 By Oar Market Reporter SEVERAL counters in the Stock Exchange yesterday touched their lowest in prices. One of the probable reasons for the rundown might be the lack of confidence amongst the operators. A case In point was Haw Par which took to a new
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      Lock icon UK STOCKS CLOSE EASIER
      120 18 LONDON The market closed easier Thursday with prices tending to drift in nervous and uncertain conditions following the official dock strike announcement. The 1,445 FT index was down 1.8 at 340.0. Leading industrials shed initial gains to close around overnight levels, though ICI and Dunlop were
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      78 18 TUB BOOB pvtrct Singapore CIlMN fcichaace yesterday Coconut oil at toe Produce were*' <r O.B.) 5700 Balk Coconut Oil «ro.ii.) 09 00 Dram M Copra 83 00 Muntok White TrTi, 190 00 Sarawak H httt Wi?S) 187 00 Sarawak Special Black Pepper 155.00 (FOB) Lampom Hpectai Black Pepper 230-00
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      38 18 NEW YORK, Dow Jones closing averages Thursday onlhe New York Stock Exchange were: 30 Industrials 692 77 20 Transp 121.92 15 Utilities 102 51 65 Stock! 217.91 40 Bonds 65.54 Commodity future inlex 136.57 up 0.28
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      Lock icon RUBBER MART VERY QUIET
      249 18 July first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 54-1/8 cents per lb. up 1-5/8 cents from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. Opening quotations were marked up fractionally on improved London advices. Thereafter
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      Lock icon HK currency rates
      96 18 HONO KONG Friday's currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd) i: (Buyers) (Sellers) per 100 Straits dollars 195.8 196.5 146.5 147.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6.74 6.75 per Australian dollar 465 485 per 1.000 Indian rupees 150 170 per 10,000 Indonesian oh« 293 295 rupictuzs
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      Lock icon U.K. rubber again quiet
      61 18 LONDON, Rubber market closed quiet again Thursday with spot 20-1/4. 20-3/4 nominal seller. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Aug. 20-1/4, 20-3/4. Sept. 20-3/8, 20-3/4 nom seller. Oct. 20-7/16, 20-11/18. Oct./ Dec 20-7/16. 205/8. Jan/March 20-3/8, 20-1/2. April/June 20-9/16, 20-11/16. July/Sept. 20-11/16, 20-13/16. Oct./ Dec. 20-3/4, 207/8. Jan./ March 20-13/16,
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      57 18 <Manager*' Prtee fc tv July IS) CHAKTERfcD UNIT TBUSTt? 8.G Fond 1.92 L07 AHIA IN11 TBIHTH M Invest Fund id 1.18 1:8 M'ftla Pro*. 100 MNtiAPOKfc DMT T*r»w tnd h'pore 1.72x0 3rd s pore 1.15 Co tnd InO. M am 1 M The faring 1:8 Fund xd 1.00
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      Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
      626 18 BID and offer prlcei officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lompor trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B. 8. A lean 1.48 159 Allied Cboe. 2.80 2.92 AJinomoto 2.17 2.18 Ben. 1.40 Berjaya 1.48 149 Borneo 1.57 1.66 Boastead
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      744 18 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoto $2.15 (1) $2.17 (2) $2.16 (4); Alcan $1.50 (2) $1.49 (2): DIM $1.50
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      17 18 Business done on the Straits tin market yesterday was $628 per picul up 1 7/8.
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    Lock icon Company jumps gun on ship 'jumbos'
    303 19 A SHIPPING company which hu been providing regalai services between Singapore and Canada and the United States since before the war will "jump the gun" on airlines in the introduction of "Jnmboc" into Singapore. Commencing next Monday, Barber Lines A/S of Oslo, will provide
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