Eastern Sun, 9 November 1970

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  • 20 1 EASTERBN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1493 Monday, November 9, MC (P) 1616
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  • 116 1 Two Australian servicemen died shortly after admission to the KAF Hospital after the car in which they were travelling collided into the rear of a stationary cement mixer truck at 8 -mile Tampines Road on Saturday night. Their names were given as Ronald Vincent Beverage,
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  • 470 1 VTHAMPOA'S out- spoken M.P., Dr. Augustine H.H. Tan, has kit out at the increasing indulgence in luxury by Statutory Boards and business executives and managers. This luxury consumption binge an outcome of Singapore's growing affluence is an unhealthy tendency and must be checked, he said. He
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  • 39 1 BRISBANE —Rockhampton Chinese citizens welcomed the stranded crewmen of a Taiwan fishing boat into their homes at the weekend. Thev needed an interpreter. On P of the Australianborn hosts spoke Cantonese while the fishermen spoke Mandarin.
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  • 168 3 Police arrived just in time yesterday to prevent a fane assault on a man and also saved a marriage party from being rained. The incident happened at a house in Bukit Gombak at the 10 DA Bukit Janjang where a wedding ceremony was going
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  • 313 3 TK>LICE hove increased mobile and beat patrols following a second unsuccessful arson attempt on the Bukit Panjang Post Office, yesterday. The first attempt to burn the post office was made on October 19. In the first attempt the business counter was charred. In yesterday's attempt
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  • 80 3 SIX women passengers In a bus were treated as out-patients for minor Injuries following a collision with another bus. Both buses belonging to the Katong Bedok Bus Company collided Into each other at a narrow stretch of road at 12 milestone, Chua Chu Kang Road
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  • 50 3 A man, Yeo Kim Hock 22, put up a gallant struggle before he was Anally overpowered by four men and robbed of $l6O in cash and a watch at the junction of Irving Road and Playfair Road on Saturday. Yeo, of Margaret Drive, sustained slight injuries.
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  • 45 3 A housewie. Ho Ah Kiew, 46, had her gold bangle valued at $lOO snatched awav from her by a man at Jalan Membina Barat on Saturday. The man then ran towards his accomplice in a waiting motor cycle and fled.
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  • 95 3 ABOUT 380 men of the Special Constabulary Ineluding volunteers and national servicemen picked up brooms, rakes and spades In a major "Operation Beach Clearing," yesterday. The men led by Acting Assistant Commis- sioner of Police, Mr. S. K. Sundram cleared Bedok Beach fronting the Bedok
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  • 217 3 An "uncon ventlonal" economic workshop aimed at finding solutions to problems faced by small Industries In Singapore Is being organised by the Nanyang University. The workshop, organised by the Nantah Department of Economics in collaboration with the University of Singapore's Department of Economics, is sponsored
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 582 4  -  Letter to the editor LUI BOON POH. I refer to Mr. C.V. Devan Hair's letter to the Editor which was published on Page 4 of the Eastern SUM ee Saturday, 7th November, 1970. Because of the defamatory statements he made against me, I
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  • 230 4 |fUALA LUMPUR The President of the Malaysian Indian Congress, Tun V.T. Sombanthan, yesterday warned "dislo al" MIC officials to either explain their conduct or leave the party. He warned the special conference of MIC state and branch chairman and secretaries that he would otherwise take disciplinary
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  • 77 4 In gay spirits, Che Dah binte Mohammad Noor, wife of the Minister for Social Affairs, tries her hand at a Y.W.C.A. game stall at "Pesta Sukaria" Outram Road premises yesterday morning. The Y.W.C.A. has a proposal to convert the first floor of its centre into
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  • 60 4 KOTA KINABALU Continuous bombing for fish in the sea off Kota Kinabalu have caused a scarcity of fish and an Increase In prices In the town, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported. The fish have either been killed or driven away by bombing. The police and the
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  • 60 4 SAN FRANCISCO Singapore Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, arrived from Chicago for discussions with San Francisco's Mayor and West Coast Industrialist*. He will today meet Industrialists lnc udlng Ray Ash. President ,of Litton Industries and Samuel Stewart. VlceCha rman Qf the Bank of America.
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  • 184 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Government i s to introduce changes in the building by-laws incorporating several recommenda tion s made by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the collapse of the Jalan Raja Laut flats. The four-storey flats collapsed on October 19, 1968, killing 7 people
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  • 52 4 RENO, Nevada John Kovaceivich, a 22-year-old construction worker who received 171 marriage proposals in 2 days, was married on Saturday in a desperate bid to star In America. Kovaceivich was wed to nurse Christine Green, 21, whom Kovaceivich selected after a two-and. a half-
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  • 114 4 KUALA LUMPUR More thao 10 women have been included in the list of jurors lor the Kuala Lumpur and Klang districts for next year despite the recent ruling by a high court judge that women cannot serve as jurors. The Chief Registrar of
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 361 5 MANILA The outlawed Huk movement has set up o school on o remote mountain west of Manila to train young dissidents in the arts of guerrilla worto.e. This revelation was made by the common law wife of a slain Huk commander to the pol.ee. A
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  • 242 5 JAKARTA Indonesian officials are studying the possibility of a political motive behind the 'Talking Baby Hoax' which has fooled some of the country's leaders. A spokesman of the Jakarta High Prosecution Office announced prosecution officials would again interrogate SJarlfuddin, who with his wife. TJut ZaharaJonna,
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  • 53 5 Italian Premier Emil to Colombo (right) shakes hands with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie as the? meet for talks in Rome. Selassie is in the Eternal City for a 9-day visit. It was a historic reconciliation as Italy ousted him from his throne during an invasion 35 years
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  • 115 5 WASHINGTON The birth of the blues occurred in the black ghetto, hat then the music moved awa T from its r rigins. This week, a novel attempt is being made in Washington to bring it back. The first Washington Blues Festival will be held at Howard
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  • 147 5 PHNOM PENH Twenty-three people, including 6 children, were killed and 29 wounded when 2 explosions hi quick succession rocked a cinema. Eight of the wounded were later reported to he in serious condition. Police Chief len Nath announced the explosions were caused by grenades but
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 478 6 Largest Allied operation in Cambodia SAIGON A 10,000 man combined Vietnamese and Cambodian force massed south of Phnom Penh ready for the largest Allied operation in Cambodia since June. Elements of a 7,000-man south Vietnamese task force pushed across the Cambodian border on Friday to join their
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  • 248 6 Egyptian, Libyan and Sudanese leaders wound up a 5-day summit talk yesterday with a decisive meeting on problems of the Arab eastern front against Israel. The 3 heads of state, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and General Jaafar El
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  • 116 6 ROME RafTaele MinlchieUo was emotionally affected by "the inferno of Vietnam' and "the chaotic city of New York* when he hijacked a Trans-World Airlines' plane to Rome last year, a public prosecutor claimed in court. Prosecutor Dr. Antonio Scopellltl asked for a sentence of 6 years
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  • 248 6 NEW YORK Japan may well become the world's top economic power by late this century or early in the next, according to a book published yesterday. Herman K a hn an American expert on national security problems, also predicted that Japan's economic dominance is
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  • 114 6 SAN FRANCISCO The Haight-Ashbury Drug Treatment Centre warned that LSD-laced candy has been handed out to children in Golden Gate Park. The candy, described as unwrapped, chewy and Hal-loween-type," was given out on Friday by 2 "long-haired types," according to a volunteer worker at the
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  • 112 6 ROCKY HILL, Connecticut An estimated 14,000 barrels of highly flammable gasoline spilled into the Connecticut River. They forced authorities in 11 towns along 30 miles of river frontage to go on alert. The river was sealed off to all traffic. The gasoline
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  • 219 7 WKT BERLIN West Berlin police todoy detained a iron in connection with the shooting of a Russion sentry guarding the Soviet War Memoriol. The incident threatened to further strain relations in the divided city as the Soviets took the chance to
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  • Article, Illustration
    44 7 The mail must go through and "Brindle" considers it his civic responsibility to escort postman Ed Born on his rounds at St. Petersburg, Fla. The public-spirited animal meets the mailman every day and stays with him to the end of his roote.
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  • 262 7 THE HAGUE A British Minister warned NATO that Soviet political influence in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean will be Inevitable if its naval presence there is not effectively countered. Peter Kirk, UnderSecretary of State (Royal Navy), disclosed the average deployment of Soviet vessels
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  • 268 7 COPENHAGEN A report on the effects of Denmark's legalisation of pornography announced a sharp d"op in sex crimes had accompanied the easing of the laws over the pa.->t 3 years. Dr. Berl Kutschinsky, who headed the study, added. "The largest drop has been
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  • 140 7 BELFAST North Irish Drue Squad detectives warned against dope-peddlers who are pushing a new kind of L.S.D. tablet. The co6t: about £sl2 a pill. The result; slow, agonizing death. Poisoning Actually, the tablet tiny, pink, with white flecks Is only half L.S.D. The rest Ig strychnine
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  • 85 7 TOKYO Women will man the world's biggest ship, th e Tokyo tanker, 'Nisseki Maru,* 570 000 tons the first Japanese ocean-going ship to take on women. The dinosaur ship will have a crew of only 40, being highly automated. Four members will be women, because
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  • 213 7 LONDON Twenty hippies shouting obscenities and shooting water pistols took over David Frost's weekly show on television. It forced him to .move to another studio Watched bv 10 million British viewers, they moved onto the stage from the studio audience and jeered nt the startled
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  • 434 8 rE Superintendent of Changl Prison talking about the imprisonment of criminals said Friday that until now "society is content to leave it to the correctional service to punish, unable or unwilling to realise that we have failed miserably as punishers." This is a clear statement of the
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  • 192 8 rERE has been far too much publicity about Prof. Leonard Cohen leaving the Nanyang University. It is not even clear at this moment whether he resigned, whether he was pressed to resign or was just dismissed. A lot of words have been said and written about the Cohen
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  • 972 8  -  By Fred Mpanga George Brown, Britain's former Foreign Secretary, has changed his name by deed poll so that he can sit in the House of Lords os Lord George-Brown. One act he could perform for posterity: urge that some semblance of order be put into
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  • 411 8  -  By Dick West WHEN I learned a few weeks ago that there was an English organisation called the Fairy Investigation Society whose members "aincerely hold the fairy faith/' I sent in a request for some of its literature. Specifically, I asked for a copy of the society's
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  • 29 8 All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. Rudyard Kipling, poet.
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  • 865 9 Leslie Murphy reports from Jakarta TODAY S WORLD pOLITICAL infighting, eight months before Indonesio's long-awaited first general elections for 16 years, has sparked heated controversies over the split of two big national organisations. The disputes dividing the Indonesian Moslem Party (PMI) and
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  • 704 10/11 To impress an Apple Queen, a man has got to come up with something like orchids. Showing off some orchids to Miss Lynette Foti, Australia's Apple Queen 1970, are Mr. Royce Johnson, General Manager of the King's Hotel (left) and Mr. Yeoh Cheng Kung, its Assistant Manager. Miss
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1828 12 LOOKING AND LISTENING. ...fv and radio guide CARROLL RIGHTER'S from the Carroll (lighter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You can utilize the morning to great advantage by devising a new course of action with the assistance of well-informed and prominent men. You will then be able to bring these plans into tha
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  • 665 13  -  By Roger Doughty Maximilian Schell has this thing about autographs. He isn't all that thrilled about giving out his own, but he gets a big charge out of collecting other people's. A lot of folks want Max's autograph because they remember his Oscar-winning
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  • 568 13  -  By Harold Heffernan ALMOST any weU-known show business performer will tell you if he's honest of embarrassing fan confrontations where he was mistaken for some other star. If they're smart they hide their chagrin and sign away in the name of the
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  • 144 13 CULVER CITY Karl Maiden has been signed to star with William Holden and Ryan O'Neal in "The Wild Rovers", a Blake Edwards production for MOM. Shooting has begun on the film location in Nog ales, Arizona. "The Wild Rovers" casts Academy Awardwinner Maiden as Walter Buchman, a
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  • 72 13 NEW YORK Elliott Gould has been award, ed the "Bphlnx Trophy'- as beat actor at the eight annual Pa> nama Film Festival for his performance :n Columbia Pictures' "Getting Straight". Produced and directed by Richard Rush, "Getting Btralght" was an official Festival selection at the recently
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 130 13 1 30l ORGANISATION CATHAY ***** NOW SHOWING! 11 a.m. 130 6-30 "Forblddrn Trmptatlon" Yvonne De Carlo, Color. Scope NEXT CHANGE! "God Forgives ..1 Don't" Terence Hill. Color, Bcope I orchard aTTsTTa NOW BHOWING 1.30. 4.00, 6.30 t.IS "The Only Gome In Tows" Elizabeth Taylor. Color (Po*) NEXT CHANOEI Pox's 'The
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    • 203 13 LID O Phone 3734 14 LAST DAT! No Wroe Lift U am 1.3* 6 M *.l& pa "THE HEROIC ONES' IA SHAW PRODUCTION! Mandarin In Scop*, Color OPENS TOMORROW I Claudlne Auger "Listen Let's Make Love*' Color (UAI CAPITOL 29/59 New Showing—No Free List 11 am 1.45 4, 9.39 l.»
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  • Article, Illustration
    713 14 In this world, ony normal person is not free from worries. Even young children hove their own childish worries. How 4o worries come about? Sometimes they may stem from our mind and imagination. For example, someone may be requested lor the first time to give a speech at an
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  • 361 14 Adult education is meant for those who lost their education when young but most siart learning in t«*eir old age. Good education can help the country to become prosperous. It also helps the nation to be eas.ly governed. One who cannot learn when young can enter the Adult
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  • 135 14  -  DATELINE By Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE AND WALT: My grandfather b deaf but won't wear his hearing aid. When I bring people fro meet him, he always acfrs rude and criticises frhem afterwards. He gets ritese had vibes because
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 192 14 HMXTcSSTB^ j Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest tor boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money is: $lO to* Seniors and $5 tar luniors Ifoi every essay published All
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 35 14 J fl m 'SOU 10-4 Do you TMINK LOOfcS IMPROVE WfTM AGE? j Wt Hi BY FRANK BACEVSKI VA4O KNOWS? MAYBE SOMEDAY I'LL SWING, AND COLLECT SOCIAL SECURITY AT THE SAME TIME! v *7 r
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  • WOMEN
    • 555 15 A half-Masai Kenyan girl who nearly went blind as a child, qualified as a nurse, took to stage and radio and now may take up a chance to study for a degree in the U.S. —that is Sheba Lenana. bhebo Lenana is the kind
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    • 277 15  -  By Marianne Pereira Contact lenses ari talked of things at the moment. They make the same news as flashy mustard, lime green or, tangerine cars, or skin tone bras, or midis, or unisex. Practically every second person who really should be wearing spectacles is wearing
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  • 234 16 Mr. Thomas Lau Chung Pong, 27, had one personal ambition in li/e. He was to create designs In footwear for the masses based on the latest styling, supreme comfort and economy in prices. In early November 1970, Thomas saw the fulfilment of his ambition. Mr. J
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  • 127 16 SYDNEY A French banker yesterday forecast an Increase in European Investment in Australia. Jean Philippe Dromer, Deputy General Manager of the Banque Nation ale de Paris, said there were great possibilities (or European investment in Australian mines and industry and Sredicted sn increase in
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  • 141 16 THE Staff of Scandinavian Airlines System In Singapore has joined In the Republic's Keep Fit campaign. Each evening after the doors are closed, chairs and tables are poshed aside. From the office boy to the area manager, everyone set abont to work those
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  • 167 16 The General Managers of Hilton International hotels in the East Asia will meet for a week-long discussion (November 9—14) at the new Singapore Hilton. Mr. H. Llm Ewe Hln General Manager of the Singapore Hilton, said that the visiting General Managers representing the Company's
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 565 17 The Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore have proved a quagmire not just last week but for a rather lone time. Interest in stocks and shares have sunk to a new low and operators were still cautious awaiting fresh inducement to deal. However real
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    • 54 17 Miss Makiko Mori and Miss Kyou Ko Honji. two top Japanese beauty consultants will be in today to Nov. 28, giving demonstrations of a new Shiseido product. They will Illustrate the qualities of "Masque of Magic" to Singapore women at leading departmental stores. Miss Kyou Ko
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    • 130 17 BP Refinery has donated $lO,OOO worth of laboratory equipment to the Applied Chemistry Department of the University of Singapore. The equipment mainly glassware for laboratory tests were handed over at the refinery new conference room by the Production Controller, Mr Chua Suay Bah to Professor
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    • 84 17 TOKYO —Fifteen major Japanese banks, for the 12th consecutive year. ha v e increased both their profits and incomes during the first half of the current fiscal year. It was announced Saturday The average profits of the 15 banks increased bv 11.5 oer cent. Bank officials, who released
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    • 530 17 ARKIVAI.A ll' m MSA lts Kanl.i Lumpur. 700 a m MSA SKO Colombo, a. Lumpur. 7 30am MSA 143 Kuala Lampar. 9.30 a m MSA 45* Koala Lumpur. 11.#5 a m MSA 454 Penan*. Koala Lumpur II AO a m MSA 203 Jakarta. 130 p.m. MSA 451 Kuch
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    • 107 17 AN Australian specialist in Diamond- Wheels and grinding wheels b now In Singapore. He is Mr. Donald Fitsgeraid. Production Engineer on bonded abrasives with Norton International of Australia. Mr. Fitsgerald, who has been In the business for twenty years, will act as a Consultant ••specialised grinding
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • 1282 18 £JOUNT Carlo atoned for his disappointing race at the last meeting in Kuala Lumpur when he beat a strong class five division one race over 6f. yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Kept well In fourth position by jockey Johnny Rao, the Queztal gelding made his bid at
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  • 149 18 LEEDS England. Australia scored an upset 12-7 win over Great Britain here Saturday to retain the World Rugby League Cup amid vicious stand-up fight immediately following the final whistle. Punches, kicks and butts were seen throughout the match before referee Fred Windrop took decisive
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  • 171 18 JOHANNESBURG Overcoming a one minute fenaJty for shooting the start, an Italian Works errari driven by Belgium's Jackie Ickx and Italy's Ignacio Guinti won South Africa's top sports car event in a nine-hour endurance race Saturday. Throughout the race along a tortuous 2.4mile Kyalami course the
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  • 96 18 ROTTACH-EGERN, Germany, British Olympic track medallist Lilian Board arrived at the Bavarian resort of Rot-tach-Egern this afternoon to undergo cancer treatment in the Ringbergklinik of Dr. Josef Issels, the clinic said. A staff member said Misr Board was accomf»anied b v a young Engishman when
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 49 18 SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($9,355) Ist Prize No: *****7 ($2,315) 2nd Prise No: *****4 ($1,157) 3rd Prise No: *****9 578) Starters ($52 each) Nos: *****1 *****8 *****2 *****9 *****7 *****0 *****5 *****4 *****2 v *****3 *****8 Consolation ($5l each) Nos: *****8 *****5 *****1 *****0 *****9 *****5 *****2 *****4 *****6 *****0
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  • 393 19 TJOME Carlos Monxon of Argentina won Hie world mid--11 dleweight title Saturday night with a dramatic and crushing twelfth round knockout of title-holder Nino Beni venuti. The 28 year old challenger knocked Benvenuti down for the first time In his 88-fight career in one minute 57
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  • 456 19 k'" nde r ky Welsh international goalkeeper Gray Sprake against Crystal Palace cut ,0 ,I,St ne po t at the ,op ,he En 9 lish F Division at Selhurst Park here Leading 1-0 with Just two minutes left. Leeds were coasting along, but
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  • 94 19 JAKARTA The Indonesian National Sports Commission (KONI) has been able to collect only one third of the money needed to send Indonesian participants to the Asian Games in Bangkok in December. Ma J. Gen. Jonosewojo, the Chairman of the Commission, said the estimated total cost of
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  • 249 19 MELBOURNE MCC Vice-Captain Colin Cowdrey ended his run famine with a painstaking 73 not out in 207 minutes against Victoria at the Melbourne cricket ground yesterday. His runs helped MCC reach 268 for four in their second innings by the close of the third day
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  • 123 19 BUENOS AIRES Thai, land's Sukree Onsham had hi s left arm in a sling Saturday but Is expected to be fit for the Worln Cup golf championship starting here Thursday. Sukree who shared third place in the 1969 World Cup event in Singapore, developed a
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  • 45 19 PARIS Leading French Jockey Yves Saint Martin rode four winners at Saint Cloupl Saturday to bring his total of winners this season to 113. He needs eight more winners from ten remaining meetings to beat his 1969 personal best o 1 120 winner*.
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