Eastern Sun, 7 November 1970

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  • 171 2 Lightning supersonic jet of No 74 Squadron, R.A.F., and Mirage jet fighters of No. 3 and No. 75 6quadrons, R.A.A.F., roared over Changi in farewell fly-past when the Air Commander. Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler. and Lady Wheeler (seen above), left Singapore
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  • 479 2 DARGIRL Mimi Wong Weng Sui, 31, came home after 10 p.m. on Jon. 6 the night she was alleged to have murdered a Japanese housewife —in "a state of excitement". This wos told fro the High Court by her house-servant, Modom Ton Sin Tee,
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  • 256 2 THE Singapore Cancer Society will launch a pilot project to detect cancer of the breast No. 2 killer among women in Singapore. The plans call for an initial mammography X ray of 100 patients. Plans are being worked out with the authorities concerned on the project
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  • 74 2 Members of the Special Constabulary (Volunteers and National Servicemen. will launch a "Beach Cleaning Operation" tomorrow The gix-hour operation will cover a section pf the Bedok Beach and stretches for half m ile from Bedok Rest House to a canal in Upper East Coast Road. The operation
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  • 77 2 J n r on g Secondary School w o n the Third Inter-Schools Tree Planting and Gardening Competition organised b v the Ministry of Education and the Singapore Gardening Society. St. Margaret's Secondary School was run-ners-Up while Broadrick Secondary School emerged third. However, top winner of
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  • 124 2 KUALA LUMPUR A total of 3,966 new vacancies were reported during September, with nearly 44 per cent (1,770) for production and related workers and labourers Unfilled vacancies during the month amount to 3.666 clerical and related workers forming th e largest category with 1.782, disclosed
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  • 86 2 Magistrate F.G. Remedios vesterda* called for probation report on four teenagerg who Seaded guilty to fightg in public Tan Chow Huat, 19. Lee Wing Yew. 18, Khone La v Seng 16 and Lim Poh San. 16 all {>leaded guilty to fightng with four other unknown person
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  • 48 2 Osman bin Mohamed, 21, was yesterday fined $3OO or. in default, two months jail by Magistrate FG. Remedios for insulting the modesty of two schoolgirls H e pleaded guilty to indecent exposure to the two schoolgirls at their Seraya Primary School compound, seraya Road on Aug. 29.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 139 2 AROUND TOWN 10.00 a.m. to fi.OO p.m. Fun Fair at YWCA. Outram Road Centre. 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. Exhibition on paintings. sculpture and Ceramics at National Library. 2.00 p.m. Trap and skeet shoot at Singapore Gun Club. Rifle Range Road. 2.30 p.m. Folk dancing group weekly practice, YMCA. Orehard
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  • 385 3 Police will be expanded and equipped with better facilities to maintain law and order in Singapore waters. This was announced yesterday by the Minister for Home Affairs, Prof. Wong Lin Ken, when he officially opened the new Marine Police Headquarters Station at Kallanr. Prof.
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  • 136 3 THE Minister for Health Mr. Chua Sion Chin yesterday made an extensive tour of factories, and a reservoir. Mr. Chua made the five hoar toar In conJunction with the current Anti-Pollution Campaign. His tour included visits to the Seletar Reservoir, Magnolia Creameries, motor workshops and an
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  • 89 3 THREE men arrested an odd-job labourer at Margaret Drive on Thursday after he robbed a 65-year-old man of his $l4O watch. The labourer and two accomplices robbed Wee Leng Seng, of Beleverde Close, as he walked along Havelock Road. Mr. Wee shouted for help after the
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  • 34 3 Lim Thian Huat, 33, was fined $BOO or in default two months jail yesterday when he pleaded guilty to helping organise a "Chap-Ji-Kee" lottery at Bendemeer Road on Thursday.
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  • 153 3 A man's of duty to marry the woman who bore him a child tost him $504) yesterday. That was the fine th« First District Judge, Mr. Abdul Wahab Ghows, Imposed on Ong Heng Ching. 26. a hawker's assistant, (or making a false declaration. The court
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  • 59 3 Irawanan Filial, 22. was yesterday sentenced to a year's jail and six strokes of the cane b v Magistrate Tan Teow Yeow after he pleaded guilty to vandalism charges. He admitted damaging a padlock on a coin box o' a telephone booth and a collapsible gate at
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 34 3 THIS SUNDAY'S DRAW NO: 89/70 (8-11-70) 2S& CASH JACKPOT IS $140,000 I TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT S5OO/I I
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 61 3 Toto prize The second group prize of $20,000 in Thursday's Toto Draw No. 88/70 has been won by a lucky participant. It was also announced that Mr Le e Hoong Fong, Director of Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd. will chair the panel of judges in Sunday's Toto Draw No. 89/70 to
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  • 684 4  -  Letter to the editor C. V. Devan Nair Secretary General, National Trades Uniou Congress Mr. Lui Boon Poll, acting for Mr. Ho Mun Poh, hat made statement* which only serve to put his client into really hot water. In order that your
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  • 262 4 Those who prevent others from speaking in Malay would be reported to Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. Action would later be taken against such offenders, warned Chief Minister of Sarawak, Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Yakub. He cited an Incident in Bibu recently when a
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  • 118 4 KUALA LUMPUR Three Royal Malaysian Navy coastal minesweepers, "KD. Ledang", "Mahamlru" and "Brichang", rescued the crew of a distressed Indonesian vessel In heavy seas 4 ml es south-east off the coast of Johore yesterday. The Ministry of Defence announced the 150-foot Indonesian 1 cargo vessel developed engine
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  • 76 4 Paya Lebar police arrested two men who allegedly stole 434 wrist watches valued at $8,733, from a transport company recently. The men were arrested at the airport. Mr. Tan Swee Huat, 28, an operational manager of Singapore Baggage Transport Agency (Pte> Ltd., told police
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  • 204 4 CANBERRA Australia will now begin paying for the use of Butterworth Air Base where Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft are stationed for defence of Malaysia-Singapore. Under an agreement worked out over several months of hard bargaining, Australia will pay Malaysia *****.000 in 1970-71 fiscal
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  • 89 4 A 16-man trade mission representing Australian chemical industries ifl now in Singapore. The mission, led by Mr. W.S. Duffield, President of the Australian Chemical Industry Council and Managing Director of Laporte Australia Ltd., arrived on Friday night. Mr. Duffield (left) said Singapore was already an
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  • 312 5 WASHINGTON Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew predicts there would be no Ame< ricon combat forces in South Vietnam by the time the 1972 U.S. presidential elections are held. Mr. Lee, after talks with President Nixon said he was "reasonably confident there
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  • 53 5 Noodle seller. See Eng Boon. 30, was yesterday cleared on two charges of sexual Intercourse WJth a minor. See was alleged to have bad carnal connections with a 13-year-old girl twice, at Mountbatten Road on February 20 and 21. He was cleared because
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  • 58 5 FIVE Indonesians In the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday admitted entering Singapore illegally between Oct. 2l and Nov. 2. Three of them, Hussein bin Abu, 27. Abdullah bin Ahmad, 28, and Robert Lllntong. 29, were Jailed for one month. The other two, Ali bin Awang, 18.
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  • 68 5 A young man was yesterday sentenced to four months jail when h e pleaded guiltv to stealing the rear lights of a motor car. Matheos Saba Johnny, 23. admitted at the Ninth Magistrate's Court to stealing the lights from a car belonging to Tan
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  • 53 5 THE Ministry of Culture has specially compiled a Chinese Edition of the Bingapore Guide and Street Directory to guide the public of the names of streets in Chinese Each copy will cost $5.00 and can be obtained at the Government Publications Bureau at the General Post Office And
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  • 233 5 Blind businessman Tan Guan Heng, 32, must succeed in his new venture a book store. Mr. Tan is the first blind man in Singapore to be given a $3,000 grant from the Lee Foundation. His G. H. Book Forum, in the Singapore
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  • 66 5 Police would like to contact four passengers in a taxi which knocked down a young boy at Frankel Avenue on Oct. 31 at 7.30 p.m. Hussein Mohamed Noor, 15. died In the General Hospital on Nov. 4. He was suffering from serious head injuries. Police appeal
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  • 146 5 Singapore T r a c tion fompaov buses will begin the scheduled routes to the Kallang Industrial Estate on Monday. STC service numbers 10A, 12A, 18 and 30. will be re-routed to Kallang. STC 12A service buses will leave from MacPherson Housing Estate on normal service
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  • 241 6 rpOKYO Zbigniew Brxezinski, Columbia University's top scholar on Communist affairs, is confident Communist China will be a member of the United Nations within two years. The New York professor doubts Peking will pursue a hostile course in world affairs unless political stability collapses
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  • 190 6 ROME Italy, after SI months of secret negotiations, becomes the eighth West European nation to establish diplomatic relations with Peking. Italy's recognition of the Communist government of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung comes a month after Canada set up diplomatic ties with Peking. In the agreement Italy notes
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  • 278 6 T>RUSSELS Dumping into the sea is an avoidable and inexcusable health hazard, causing cancer and wrecking havoc in marine life. Dr. Max Blumer, senior scientist at the Uceanographic Institution in Massachusets told a NATO conference all methods of cleaning up oil pollution were
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  • 87 6 INDONESIA will become one of the world's major oil producers by the end of this decade. Lt.-Gen. Ibnu Sutowo, President-Director of P.M. Pertamina, said recent oil strikes indicate Indonesia's dally product on of 900.000 barrels the highest In Southeast Asia will more than double, to 2 million
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  • 97 6 Cambodian Prime Minister General Lon Nol, leader of the new republic bows deferentially to Buddhist religious leaders. The Buddhist monks gathered at the Palace in Phnom Penh for talks with Lon Nol and other Cambodian leaders. Lon Nol is hoping to increase his
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  • 171 6 LONDON Rhodesian Prime Minister lan Smith is prepared to fly to London in a bid to reach a settlement, if he is invited. Smith said he would meet any reasonable request to go anywhere if it was an honest, genuine, and constructive attempt
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  • 145 6 JAKARTA The hoax baby talking from the womb myth was finally laid to rest today when an X-Ray examination proved Mrs. Tjut Zaharafonna was not pregnant. Mrs. Tjut was XRayed at the public hospital in the South Borneo capital of Bandjarmasin where she was
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  • 266 7 WASHINGTON Relations between Hie United States and the Soviet Union strained over Moscow's detention of two American generals have eased after indications they might soon be freed. The first sign of a possible end to their 15-day detention was the Soviet word passed to
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  • 109 7 LONDON Passengers travelling on Air India flights from London have been warned to expect service from scruffy, unshaven, grim-faced stewards. Because of a pay dispute. Air India hostesses have been ordered by their union not to smile or comb their hair and stewards to leave
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  • 70 7 HAIFA All Israeli merchant ships have been Issued with arms, Captain Nlmrod Eshel, director of the Shlpe and Port* department of the Ministry of Transport, said yesterday. He said a l Israeli cargo ships had been issued with weapons to ensure their safety and captains reported their
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  • 300 7 MOO LOO LAB A, Australia A raft, drifting across the Pacific to prove that South Americans could have reached Australia centuries ago, came close to disaster on the Great Barrier reef on the last stage of its voyage. With lour men and a
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  • 48 7 MELBOURNE The Australian Government is so worried about a shortage of single women immigrants that It has invited leading overseas photographers to publicise Australian life from a women's viewpoint. Federal Minister for Immigration Phillip Lynch said special Alms and advertising would be directed at single women.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 521 8 JAILED FOR TORTURING PRISONERS MENDOZA, Argentina A former provincial police inspector was sentenced to II years' jail on 3 counts of torturing prisoners and causing the death of one of them in 1965. A Criminal Court also found former Inspector Jose Rodero guilty of false arrest and
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  • 280 8 T ONDON A strike by 65/000 local council workers has ended with the granting of hefty pay rises to 300,000 people. The protest for higher wages has left British streets piled high with heaps of rotting garbage. However, work on hauling garbage away from such
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  • 159 8 LONDON Guy Fawkes, who failed in a bid to blow up Parliament in 1605, on Thursday gave Londoners their biggest night of fires since the German blitz of the Second World War. Firemen had tackled over 800 fires by early evening as fireworks and
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  • 56 8 Princess Anne (right) chats with "Mrs. Littlemouse'' during an informal visit to the set of a new movie, "Tales of Beatrix Potter," at Elstree, England. "Mrs. Littlemouse" is portrayed by Julie Wood, a member of the Royal Ballet. The film is a musical adaptation of the stories
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  • 229 8 LOS ANGELES A British Tank Corps officer serving in West Germany will be crowned 'King of Yugoslavia' by Royalists after attending the funeral of his father, ex King Peter the Second. The latter. 47, died in hospital on Tuesday after a
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  • 381 10 I)RIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew has several times predicted here that American troops will be out of Vietnam by 1972 when the next Presidential elections are due in the United States. This prediction took op added emphasis when he repeated in Washington after conferring with President Richard Nixon.
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  • 250 10 LORD Chalfont, speaking in the august House of Lords, raised the question as to what British troops will do if rioting creaks out in Singapore. He was of course :astigating the reversal of the Labour Party policy of total pullout from east of Suez by the new government in
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  • Article, Illustration
    564 10  -  BY ART BUCHWALD, One of the big pollution problems seems to be the use of phosphates in detergents. It is believed thot the dumping of phosphates in streams and rivers makes algoe grow, which kills fish and other good things. All the soap companies are working on
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  • 560 10  -  By Anthony White, The beauty trade in South Africa today is making money out of selling skin-bleaching lotions to Africans who want to lighten their skin. Thp ootions ar e popular among thosp who either think a fairer skin more attractive or because the v want to pass as
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  • 72 10 LET An open letter to all motor-cyclists from a motor-car driver. Dear Motor-cyclists on Singapore roads today, Please think of the rest of people travelling th® same way. We cannot tell what you mean to do. When you tilt your head and swing
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • RACE DAY SPORTS LIFTOUT
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  • 1291 12  -  by STEVE RICHARDS "This performonce wos by for ond owoy the best from o British ployer since the doys of Perry ond Austin The words of the lawn tennis correspondent of "The Times" in London could so easily have applied to the display of Roger Taylor,
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1014 13 STRAN GER IN PARADISE ha s been knocking on the door for some time and down in division four today, he has a bright chance of registering his maiden win today, opening day of the Selangor Turf Club meeting. At Bukit Timah
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    • 143 13  -  by K.S. Sidhu Singapore Cricket Club retained the Slater Cup when they thrashed Young Men Sikh Association 3-0 in their annual hockey game played on Thursday. SCC played a collective hockey with two newcomers all from Germany. Their first goal was fetched
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    • 291 13 KUALA LUMPUR: BETHESDA showed improvement in a gallop here yesterday morning. With Mat Shaari astride, Bethesda strode out stylishly over 3f in 37 2 5 on good track. On thai workout, Bethesda, who is engsged in the class tw« division two race over 7f on Sunday, will
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    • 58 13 BUENOS AIRES Topranking Cliff Rlchey of the US went down to eighth ranked Austra-lian-born Bob Carmlchaei of France In a major upset In the third Argentine International Open Tennl* championship her e Thursday Carmlchael dropped the second set before going on to beat the American 7-6
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    • 339 14 NEW YORK Former world heovyweight champion Cossius Cloy and Argentina's Oscar Bonovcno will meet in o 15-round bout ot Madison Square Garden here on December 7, it was announced Wednesday. The fight will be the second In the undefeated Clay's comeback after more than
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    • Article, Illustration
      33 14 ATLANTA Two other membersof the well-dressed audience that came to watch Cassias Clay's return to boxing, Oct. 29. Thev are (L to R) fighter Jimmy Bills and magazine artist Lerpy Neiman.
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    • 404 14  -  By UTTL£ NENE No lest Hun 44 countries have entered for Hie 18tb Canada Cup tournament scheduled to be played at Buenos Aires Jockey Club Course from Nov. 12-15. Favourites in the two men team championship are the combinations of Lee
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    • 157 14 THE Singapore Contract Bridge Association will hold Its Autumn Congress at the end of this month at the Conference Room. Cuscaden House Hotel. The three congress will be divided Into three sections three sessions each of Open Pairs and Team-of -Tour and
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    • 345 14 KUALA LUMPUR Defending champions South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are locked In a three-cornered fight for honour as the third Asian Women's Basketball Tournament here yesterday pause for its second rest day before the final round today. After six days of competition in the 10nation tournament,
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    • 94 14 LONDON Tony Jacklin, British winner of the United States Open Golf title, has been chosen Britain's 'Sportsman of the Year* for 1970 by the British Sports Writer** Association. It is the second successive year that Jacklin has been voted the man who has done
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  • 419 15  -  By Lawrence E. Lamb, M. D. Dear Dr. Lamb What is schizophrenia (paranoid)? Dear Reader Schizophrenia is a mental disorder. Patients with this problem have difficulty distinguishing between reality and fantasy. The nature and meaning of their dally experiences are distorted. Some psychiatrists believe that schizophrenia
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  • 976 15  -  By Paul Vaughan-Whitehead A gentle, mop-haired sheep with a $6,000 price-tag on its head has replaced the Bengal tiger the Peruvian jaguar and other ferocious specimens as the pride of every trophy hunter's dreams. At the same time the government of Afghanistan,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 29 15 PLAIN JANE ki />Mf oC^\£.\/£rett fay owkl ?an/e?TS oV e. f/i r/i BY FRANK BAGINSKI MMN...I WONDER IF I s COULD GET AWAY WITH -TWATIODAV? j kiaazd TO pieces
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  • 469 16  -  From Vernon Scott in Hollywood ETRO-Goldwyn-Mayer records, convinced young people ore influenced by drug-oriented pop groups and the lyrics they sing has dropped some ortistes and initioted a campaign to clean up the recording industry. Mike Curb, President of the company,
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  • 320 16 TOKYO Tlie ideal navel, the good doctor says, has a deep-set almond shape. "The deeper its basis Is. the better the navel," said Dr. Yoshikazu Nagumo, a Japanese specialist whose operations centre on the bellybuttan. His Job, he says, is to make the
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  • 57 16 Is this the latest in see-through dresses, an up-to-date version of the old "chain of mail** worn in by gone days? In a way it is, for passers-by in Tokyo's Ginza section saw this Japanese fashion model recently as she walked through the streets
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous

  • 711 17  -  2l Roger Doughty, It s a cold fall morning in Boston, Hie clocks sprinkled around the Common are a few seconds away from striking 11 and a lean guy with moppy hair is getting ready to drag himself out of bed in
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 32 17 RUE-CLUB t 'v-? l Miss JULIE FUNG Miss LILY at liie mike and accompanied by YUEN THE The Sea Palace Quintet Special NIGHTINGALE j luncheon music on Ar m Sundays OF TAIWAN
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1925 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING....tv and radio guide CARROLL RIOHTER'S from the Carroll (lighter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You have a big chance now to charm others and get your emotional problems adJusted. Make a big point to do your marketing and whatever merchandising you have to do whether it be wares, products
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  • 688 19  -  By JOSEPH GALLOWAY T>AL| The ringing music of a gong orchestra summons -1' everyone to the dusty mainstreet of this Balinese beach village. Over t sand dunes comes a strange procession of hundreds ot villagers dressed in their finest sarongs
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  • 712 20 WOM*N may be flghtlo| about hemlines, bat on one thing there seems to be general agreement: the shirt and skirt Is the one midl look everyone likes and can wear. The result has been the biggest blouse season within memory, extending even to
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  • 410 20 A woman in Michigan recently sent the White House a news Bhoto showing both Irs. Nixon and her press secretary, Connie Stuart, with their hosiery bagging at the ankles. When even the First Lady can't get nonbaggy hosiery, Congress woman Leonor K. Sullivan thinks the government ought to
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  • WOMEN
    • 691 21 PARIS Frenchwomen hove devised a test to see if their figures are suited to the current croze for bra-less fashions. A woman puts a pencil under her bosom, and if it stays in place she definitely needs to wear a bra. If
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    • 694 21  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: I hop*. I'm I not too late to get in on [the brouhaha created bjr [those self-pitying mp thers who ar e crying all over themselves because [thei r kids don't pick up I the phone and say,
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  • 244 22 T OSSES expended in the Stock Exchange of Moloysio ond Singapore yesterday. Volume of shares traded were outstandingly weak. Persistent dullness ruled In industrials which contributed 663.000 shares after the day's close. One of the biggest drops of the day was provided by Electrical and
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  • 79 22 MANILA A new law which Imposes a two per cent tax on stock transactions or sale and purchase of stock share went Into effect here yesterday. Hie law also Imposes a tax of 200 to 300 pesos <S$4l to 63) on every Filipino citizen or alien resident
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  • 86 22 KUALA LUMPUR West Malaysia has attained ninety percent ae If-sufficiency in rice. The Minister of Agriculture and Lands. Tan fin OhazaTl Jawl, said yesterday the farmers were able to produce about 910,000 tons of the 1,034,000 tons required for consumption this year. Next year, the total
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  • 132 22 NEW YORK Gold prices weakened further on speculative selling on market a here and abroad Thursday. London gold dropped 10 US. cents at the morning fixing and then fell 35 UJ9. cents at the second fixing to 36 75 U3 an ounce, down 45 UJ3. cents from
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  • 241 22 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 49| cents par lb. unchanged from the previous close. Tn# tone of the market was irregular. A quiet and featureless session ruled during the morning with levels fluctuating nar- rowly
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  • 112 22 30NG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency 'ates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195.80 196.80 per 100 Straits dollars 148.50 150.50 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.76 6.775 per Australian dollar 840 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 605 525 per 1,000 Indian rupees MB 168 per
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  • 754 22 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTU1 AI.N B. 8. Acma t.IItt 1J2 Ajinomoto Alran 200 tM lJfi 140 Allies Cboo. 275 B*B. 99 102 Bfrjiya 1 12 1.14
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  • 656 22 BUSINESS done fn 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 ACM A $1.31 (1); A loan Si 36 (1); Be r jay a $ll4
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  • 87 22 THK noon price* at the Singapore Chinese Produce Eiciianit yesterday wa« ft. Coronal Oil (f.o.b.) bulk 58 00 Coconut Oil (f.o.b.) drum 60.50 Mixed Copra 33 00 Muntok White Pepper < f.o.b.) ASIA 100% N.W.L, Sarawak Whit* 182 80 Pepper <f.o.b.) 96% N.WL. ***** Sarawak Special Black Pepper (f.O.h.)
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  • 15 22 The tin price for yesterday w as $656.00 per picul down A 7/8.
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 405 23 CJYDNEY Heavy selling in key mining nickel heavyweights caused a general morket slump on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Mineral Securities slumped 1.30 dollars to 11.80 dollars for the worst fall in the heavyweights. New Broken Hill dropped 40 cents to $l5 60 soon after
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    • 550 23 ARRIVALS 145 am. .Ms A 125 Kuala Lnmpar €.25 am MSA 556 Mr.lra* 7-SO a in. MSA 183 Kuala Lumpur 9.3oara. MsA 4ft* Kuala l.umpur 10.30 a m MSA 44tf Kurhlnit UOfta.m MsA 4-V4 Prnanx. Knala Lumpur 11..1# a m MSA *O3 Jakarta 1.20p. at. MSA 309 Prrfh
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    • 224 23 A Norwegian Singaporean synthetic resin Piant will be inaugurated In iurong Industrial Estate today. Named the Dyno Industries (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. it was incorpirated on Marsh 3. The Joint owners are the Deveopment Bank of Singapore, the Norwegian Explosives Industries Ltd. and Mr. Mok Ah Leong, General
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    • 38 23 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing average Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrial# 771.56 20 Ralls 148.12 IS Utilities 108.80 65 Stocks 245.65 40 Bonds 65 60 Commodity Futures Index 147 85 off 0.22
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • 351 24 f<APE KENNEDY The United States yesterday orbited a secret super spy satellite equipped to flash an early warning of o missile or orbital bomb attack. The 1,800-lb spacecraft is the first in a new generation of early warning satellites that also will
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  • 230 24 MONTREAL Armed troop* guarded a special jailhouse courtroom J" yesterday, as the Quebec Government brought charges against 27 people rounded up under the suspension of civil liberties in the kidnap crisis. A 28th was arraigned in Granby, Quebec. A total of 54 charges were brought
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  • 228 24 BANGKOK Three elite border police units have mored into Thailand's three provinces on the Malaysian border in an all-out campaign against separatists, Communists and bandits. Police in Yala Province reported the murder of two malaria eradication workers and a village chief. Authorities said
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