The Singapore Free Press, 11 January 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Kiidav. January 11, 1957. Price 15CI«.
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    Lock icon Courage and strength call to Britain
    153 1 CHORTLY after he succeeded Sir Anthony Eden I ;j yesterday, Mr. Harold Macmillan called for "courage and strength" m repairing the damage of Suez. The Queen chose Mr. Macmillan, 62, over j; Mr. R. A. Butler, 54, who had been generally expected to succeed
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    Lock icon THE NEW PREMIER FACES THAT FIRST BIG TEST
    733 1 THE NEW PREMIER FACES THAT FIRST BIG TEST MR. HAROLD MACMILLAN, BRITAIN S NEW PRIME MINISTER. LAST NIGHT CRAPPLED WITH HIS FIRST PROBLEM THE SELECTION OF MINISTERS WHO WILL FILL THE TOP POSTS IN HIS GOVERNMENT. His appointment ended almost 24 hours of nationwide speculation on who would lake over
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    MAKE YOUR RACING PAY
    112 1 MAKE YOUR RACING PAY WHY DO OTHER PEOPLE always make the big money on race days? Don't you wish you had their luck— or knew their punting system! If you want to make racing pay, the Free Press can help you. A great new series begins tomorrow. It is a
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    P.A.A. FLIGHT DELAYED
    43 1 The Pan American Air- r iy.s regular Thursday's San Francisco Singapore J plane flight 833 which < .should have arrived yesterday at 3.45 p.m. will reach Singapore at that time today. It will leave tomorrow at 12.30 p.m.— 24 hours late.
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    THE TENGKU
    30 1 Radio Malaya will bro^d- ca.st at 9 p.m. tonight a recording of the press conference which the Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, gave In London last night.
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    Rubber price
    31 1 February first grade rub- ber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at i lOO 1 cents a lb., up two cents on yesterday's close. The tone was steady.
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    Lock icon CALL TO R.I. FOR TROOPS
    106 1 CALL TO R.I. FOR TROOPS New danger m the Celebes ADDING to Indonesian President Sukarno's pro- blem.s. rebels m the North I Celebes have stepped up their activities, forcing the provincial government j yesterday to appeal for army reinforcements. Lo- cal population are being eradiated from the rebel areas. Ln
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    Lock icon VICTIMS OF CRUELTY AND POVERTY
    248 2 VICTIMS OF CRUELTY AND POVERTY Children's Society works for... We never accuse them' PASES of malnutrition and instances of problem children, which the Singapore Children's Society deals with, were described to members of the International Women's Club at the Y.W.C.A., Collyer Quay by Mrs. E. Kinna. the chief case worker
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    Lock icon HIGHER TAXES CUT SPENDING
    45 2 A further rise m taxes to cut spending and help re. store Hollands economic balance was announced by the finance minister, Mr Hendrik Hofstra, m a written memorandum to thr Pirst Chamber (Upper House of Parliament, pub- 1 lished yesterday.- Reuter
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    A NEW COLONY ZOO
    151 2 A NEW COLONY ZOO A SINGAPORE bird-and-aninial dealer is plan- i ning to open a zoo at I Pasir Panjang just before the Chinese New Year. The building is nearing completion and cages are built m. The only curiosity of the zoo now is a 200-lb. sea-lion I Which a
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    First Poly man here
    80 2 T'HE first head of a de- partment at the Singa- pore Polytechnic arrived m the colony last week. He is Lt. -Commander < John Sydney Craig. 43, Head of the Department of Commerce. Commander Craig, who was head of the Department of Accountancy at the Uni-
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    28 2 picture. him MM Twelve-year-old Anthony Costello and his partner, Morina, who won the Rock-'n-Roll contest at the Oileon Theatre, Singapore on Wednesday night by popular approvaJ. Free Press
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    T.U.C. to state civilians' case
    130 2 THE Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has asked the Singapore Trad* 1 Union Congress to .submit a memorandum to him on the position of 30.000 civilian employees m the armed services and th N.A.A.F.I. This is to MSist him m discussing their future with
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    THE BIG QUIZ WINNERS
    63 2 WINNERS of last week's Free Press Prize Quiz Competitions are: QUIZ NO. 1: Iftefl Angela Chua. 148-A Ponggol Road. Singapore. 19. QUIZ NO. 2: J. Stephen Tay. c/o 17C Moh Guan Terrace. Singapore. 3. QUIZ NO. 3: Mi.s> Anita Teo. 11 Lorong Kijang. off Lorong 27-
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    Lock icon Talks on A-energy
    33 2 A Yugoslav delegation tfhich will negotiate with he Soviet Government on ;he use of atomic energy 'or peaceful purposes flew hto Moscow yesterday, the Jugoslav news agency Tanugg reported. Reuter
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      164 2 fH| WEEK-ENDER lSBwIr! Thc w eekly magazine on sale every Friday that is everybody's week-end pick-me-up! m^m wffm rNnrp W ttl\-liriivllrv Inside you get the best reading and pictures for your week-end pleasure page after page of '■^nJI WW special features articles, fea- $mP$ s^ s turettes, cartoons, sports, dazzWeek's
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      38 2 FINAL SWEEPING at the CLOSING DOWN of our RETAIL DEPARTMENTS at 71, High Street NO REFUSAL FOR ANY REASONABLE OFFER (jl Vfcni. Its Your Last opportunity to Save Remember it is at BAJAJ Textiles, Limited. 71, HIGH STREET.
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    Lock icon IKE MAKES NEW BID TO BAN ATOMIC WEAPONS
    536 3 IKE MAKES NEW BID TO BAN ATOMIC WEAPONS 'State of the Union' speech PRESIDENT EISENHOWER YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED FOB THE EIRST TIME THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS WILLING TO DISCUSS THE CONTROL OE LONG-RANGE ROCKET; DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION. He spoke to Congress
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    Lock icon NATO SAFETY PACT
    214 3 NATO SAFETY PACT Gaitskell: ask Reds to quit satellites rpilE British Labour Party 1 leader Mr. Hugh Gaitskell proposed that the NATO nations try to reach a security agreement with Russia calling for the withdrawal of armed forces from Germany and the satellite states of Eastern Europe. Mr. Gaitskell m
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    Lock icon FILM CHIEF ON TOUR
    80 3 AN American film company, Warner Brothers, Is sending one of its top officials on a tour of Far East countries as part of what it called, "a major programme 01 theatre expansion m the foreign field." The official Mr. Wolfe. Cohen, president of Warner Brothers International
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    Lock icon Xmas dinner was too 'hot'
    72 3 \IKI. BOURNE police told i?1 .suburban St. Kilda Court yesterday they had taken poultry away from two families two days before Christina* -because the poultry had been stolen They said they took a chicken from an oven and another from a refrigerator Alexius Vincent Jame
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    96 3 PRINCESS MARGARITA of Baden. >4-year-old I niece of the Duke of Edinburgh, and her fiance. I Prince Tomislav, 28, of Jugoslavia, pictured in I London. Z Princess Margarita, a nurse at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, is the daughter of the Marks raf and Markgrafin of Baden. Prince Tomislav, brother
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 11, 1957 Don't slam the door
    222 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 11, 1957 Don't slam the door SINGAPORE S smug complacency, born of the knowledge that its progress and skills have put this island ahead of its immediate neighbours, is as disturbing as it is unwarranted. •'Singapore for the Singaporeans" is a slogan that ignores
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    Cyprus: where your back feels as wide as a barn door
    645 4 Cyprus: where your back feels as wide as a barn door long ago, m the 11 Cyprus fishing village of Kyrenia, a thirty-year *old journalist walked out of the gathering darkness into a ruddy pool of neon light m front of the local cinema. He wore civilian clothes of unmistak
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    BY THE WAY
    148 4  -  Beachcomber hkhkhk SOL HOGWASCH is, I hear, preparing something so frightful m the way of a film about a monstrous animal that doctors and nurses are present during the shooting. This horrible creature emerges from Vesuvius during an earthquake. He is so big that he darkens the
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    Lock icon 'Ike and Mac' team was a wartime combination Anglo-U.S. Friendship is the target
    418 5 'Ike and Mac' team was a wartime combination Anglo-U.S. Friendship is the target It's an old job for them I IUR. HAHOLD MACMILLAN —SO CLOSE A FRIEND OF iIL OWKiIJT EISENHOWER THAT THEY FORMED A WAR- i TIME "IKE AND MAC" COMBINATION IS THE MAN WHO i HAS BECOME BRITAIN'S
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    Mixed reaction to job change
    227 5 Mixed reaction to job change REPORTS of world reaction to the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Britain's Prime Minister continue to be received along with comments on the appointment of Mr Macmillan to the Prime lilnlstership. Here are some of the reports from major world centres: TOKYO: The Japanese
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    Lock icon Mollet will not 'do an Eden'
    202 5 C* O VERNM ENT sources vf said m Paris yesterday that Premier Guy Motlet had no intention of resigning because his colleague m the frustrated attack on Egypt, British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, had left his post. But M. Mollet faces sharp new
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    Early visit to U.S. is unlikely
    124 5 rjIPLOMATrc circles in Washington feel that a United States visit by Mr will be unlikely in the immediate future. President Elsenhower this month is actively engaged with his Congressional programme, his inauguration and a pending visit by King Saud. of Saudi Arabia. It b
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    Lock icon He's a house hunter
    214 5 of the first tasks Z facing Sir Anthony 5E E and Lady Eden will be that > of house hunting. When Sir Anthony re- Z signed as Prime Minister I he gave up his official re- I sidence at No. 10 Downing Z Street and the
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      92 5 J MM It lIIHI. 1 1 HUH 111 Ulllltl HI H'_ V rlt i NAPRO I Hi -Liter Colour! Shampoo gives hah new life, new lustre. Just one application brings out the hidden highlights m your hair that ordinary soaps I and shampoos dull. Not a dye, and not a
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      87 5 H RAFFLES HOTELHi NOTIC E The Ballroom will be exclusively W reserved to-night for the Kjj f| BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION DANCE Uii lOoi DUPONT DACRON I t NO PRESSING PROBLEM— WKINKLFS BANG OUT* PKFSSKS ITSKIK AS IT DRIKS. WASH WEAR IT J (Made to Measure) <> Suit 2 Pcs. $90-00 f
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      296 6 M \\IMS IkJE by Lee Falk and IMiil Davis WNEREWEARE, V THAT J C^/UY-" f^X M\ i'Z^™ 6 sJs.t IC— EITHER? HOW PIC? /I UTTLE i />^ Af/eAP /W i, > i-*>% X YOUGETHERErA FO6~/ fLsL^\ f/fimh >i V(/ M(? r O^ TAH/AX b\ i;dyar Rire Burroughs J 1 \l\}r~{
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      603 6 1/ I BORN today, you have that touch of genius m your makeup which can bring you to an exceptional success, provided you make the mo.st i of the talents which the star.s have bequeathed you. You have that combination of originality m approach to old problems which are. m
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      U.K. closing prices
      175 7 LONDON. lvi It. Pir-.ious Today Rl BBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. L' 9 buyi 29 buyers European ports January 28% tellers -91m selk: February 2t% bn 28-}, buyers JK seller- ••< sellers RUBBER No 1 RSS Spot L' 9 noa 29% bu 29 i sellers RUBBER No.
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      New York prices
      137 7 NKW YORK. Jan. 10 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 100.50 nom. 100 87 aom TIN futures January 99 00 b 99.25 bu 100.25 sellers 100 50 sellers Standard Contract February 99 00 nom. 99.25 Bom. Marrb 98 SO buyers 98 37 bliyeri 98 75 sellers
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      U.S. PEPPER
      33 7 Malabar Lamport spot, await- spot. awaiting release and Ing ivlea.se and aftoats 25 4, afloats 25 Vi sellers ex-dock January shipment 25. Sarawak Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      35 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 10 Previous Today N Industrials 493.21 495.51 20 Railroads 156 80 157.67 40 Domestic Bonds 87 94 89 83 15 Utilities 69.42 69.56 65 Storks Composite Averages ***** *****
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      102 7 Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. C.K./ North European delivered weight per long ton Jan. Feb. $185 sellers $183 4 sellers COPRA. Straits c.i-f. U.K. North European delivered weight per lone ton Jan. Feb. £69 buyers £G9 nom. £69-.. Milan Feb. Mar. £69 buyers £69 num. COCONUT
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    GIRL, 16, IN RIDDLE OF STAMPS WORTH £12,000
    471 7 OKMKMBEK the story of the two- penny sheet of stamps worth £12,000 because they were unperforlted? Well, the mystery has now been solved. And the main figure m Ike mystery is a l«j year-old Post Ottice sirl. She is Patricia Jarvis. a
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    Crocs on menu
    35 7 Crocs on menu JOHN PORTER, wealthy Melbourne businessman, went north to Queensland to look for :*so baby crocodiles for a $15.--000 banquet held here recently. The crocodiler were not eaten but mounted as menu holders.
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    So his wife starved
    145 7 So his wife starved A MARRIED woman with plenty of money starved herself to death without her husband knowing. The Taunton coroner, Mr. Peter Smith, said it was a "very strange case" of death caused by malnutrition accelerated by sHf-neglect. But it was not suicide Alfred Herbert Holeombe. a bus
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      76 7 POCKET CARTOON by OSH/K7 I INCASTEI fJMS«»I Say uhat you (ike about Dr. Hi/1 you have to admit he's got what it takes when it comes to mI*I l>romotion!" i SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES- TODAY: 6.51 p.m. TOMORROW: 6.^3 a.m. a and 8.4> p.m. SUNDAY: 7.36 a.m. and I* P-m.
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    A FILM TIFF BREWS OVER 2 ANASTASIAS FEATURED IN ROYAL FIRST NIGHT CLASH
    311 8 A FILM TIFF BREWS OVER 2 ANASTASIAS FEATURED IN ROYAL FIRST NIGHT CLASH A LEGAL battle has started involving a £1.200,000 British-made film which Princess Margaret is to see at its premiere next month. The film is "AnaistaMa." made by 20th Century Fox m Britain. Its stars: Ingrid Bergman and
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    Angel' saves penniless panto
    225 8 Angel' saves penniless panto A MYSTERY man came forward to save a penniless London pantomime He 'phoned the New Cross Empire, London. 30 minutes after the cast of "Dick Whittington" were told: "It's off." Dejected teenage chorus girls were walking out of j the theatre Electricity Board men were j
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    CAMERA CAT
    64 8 "I spy with my little L J| e y« M something f* beginning with "F." j And the F looks very I much as if it stands for ft 4 FISH. a n i €c tasty P j; goldfish m the drawing w < room aquarium. But P
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    Sentries get in a rut
    79 8 CONSTANT walking Vj up and down by the sentries outside Buckingham Palace has worn away a groove m the paving stones which was transformed mt o a miniature river m wet weather. So now the Ministry of Works is replacing the paving stones. In the
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    LEFT RIGHT...LEFT, RIGHT! I
    4 8 LEFT RIGHT...LEFT, RIGHT! I
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    Vanishing vicar fined £50
    161 8 E DIPPING light ale m Liverpool, the "vanishing vicar." 5 52-year-old Philip St. John Wilson E Koss, turned down offers of £60,000 for his life story. He has just been fined £50 by the city 1 stipendiary magistrate E for making false statements to get a
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    THE MOBY DICKS ARE DYING OUT
    216 9 T*HE whale, largest creature m aft the history of the world, may soon become extinct. An expert has warned the whaler fleets of every nation that the great mammal, which ha.s inspired awe since biblical times, may soon be killed ofr and disappear, and
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    Lock icon A SINGAPOREAN IN SEARCH OF SERENITY
    1138 10  -  Adelaide Eastley Journey into time by Chinese scholar Lee Siow Mong By EACH evening— or almost— Lee Siow Mong lakes a little winding mountain pathway and crosses a miniature golden bridge, passing on the way the 12-sided pagoda of Sung-yueh-ssu on the slope of
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    School tor photographers
    297 11  - School tor photographers Jerry field By Snap Ym at work \WHENEVER you see a Men Working" sign, that's a good time to get your camera ready for shooting. There's always a lot of interesting activity going on around those 'Men Working" signs and your finished roll could turn up with
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    CIRCUS SHOTS
    34 11 This clown "at work" makes a humorous picture which you could take next time a circus visits your area. You will most probably find him only too please to pose for you.
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    DANGER TO PEKING IF USSR FALLS
    273 12 DANGER TO PEKING IF USSR FALLS tfOMMUNIST CHINA'S 1 1,000- WORD TREATISE ON COMMUNIST POLICY, SAYS THE HON<; KONG PAPER SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WILL NOT IMPROVE RED CHINA'S STATUS IN FREE AND NEUTRAL COUNTRIES, NOR WILL IT WIN BACK THE FELLOW TRAVELLERS WHO HAVE ABAND- ONE!) RUSSIA. "Not defeatist,
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    Actress used as lure
    173 12 Actress used as lure i jMlh Chinese commuX nists' "smile campaign" to weo Free Chinese film and newspa p c r personalities backfired when Hong Kong's independent Chinese newspapers published the lengthy suicide note of popular movie star Huang Ho. The letter revealed how the Chinese communists used the rharim
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    Lock icon Pakistan frees 14 Indians
    52 12 Fourteen Indian nationals of the Sikh community, imprisoned m Pakistan for the last seven months, have just been released by order of the West Pakistan High Court, which upheld their appeal. They were arrested last March on charges of illegal entry into Pakistan and holding forged
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    Lock icon PULSE
    128 12 l^il^PPMml^SPl^^^Bß^H^BP New Peking role m Red evolution THE Soviet Commun- ist Party paper Pravda, m a leading article. said "The glorious Communist Party of China is now one of the most powerful communist parties of the world. "IT IS MAKING AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE PRACTICE OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
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    Lock icon Glimpses
    201 12 4 group of Soviet scientists commemorated m Moscow the 100 th birthday of Japan ese microbiologist Shibasaburo Kitazato for his "significant contribution to the development U.P. i Saigon newspaper report ed that forced labourers m North Vietnam destroyed a bridge they had just completed building and injured Vietnam police
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    Lock icon 'No dumping' pledge by Tokyo Govt.
    278 12 'No dumping' pledge by Tokyo Govt. miss aupawwi atu- met', 19, of Jakarta per- I forms an Indonesian candle dance for fellow pupils at the Woodrow Wilson High School m Washington, D.C. Her father, Mr. Soekano Slamet is executive director of the Interna- tional Bank for Recon- I struction and
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    Lock icon MAY VISIT U.S.
    20 12 A Tokyo Cabinet spokesman said Prime Minister Ishibashi may go to the United States m May.- U.P.
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    Lock icon NEW CHINA-CAMBODIA ROUTE
    44 12 A shipping route between Canton, m Southern China, and a Cambodian port will be inaugurated -.hurtly. A Chinee report from Pnom Penh said this route had been made essential by the big increa.se m trade between Cambodia and Red China. Reuter
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    Lock icon Threat to the coconut industry
    150 12 Threat to the coconut industry I THE coconut industry is facing a challenge from determents m the soap industry and other edibl c oils produced m Africa. This was disclosed to the 35 delegates re- presenting 14 countries, meeting m Colombo, by Ceylon's Commerce Minister, R. G. Senanayake. The delegates
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    Fiction Shelf
    237 13  -  PHILIP OAKES bfl The Fabulous Originals, by Irving Wallace. Longmans, 296 pages. WHICH characters m fiction were founded on (a) Dr. Joseph 8011. tb.» Marie Duplessis, (c) Alexandra Selkirk? For the answers see this book. The book give* biographies of each of these originals, and some more besides.
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    WHEN BROWS WERE HIGH, MORALS LOW
    674 13 WHEN BROWS WERE HIGH, MORALS LOW OLD FRIENDS. By Clive Bell. C\ IN their day, the Tens and Twent L detested and feared. In other did not always accept the invituti They were a littlt group of clever RE censorious people, arti.-t.v writers, critic who liked one another V company
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    Book of the Week
    210 13 Book of the Week The Schellenberg Memoirs, by Walter Sehellenberff Andre Deotsch, 255.) TIIKSK memoirs, written shortly before th c death of the writer, siv t an informative and lively ;«< count of the man who was the head of th c Nail secret services, and dose confederate of llinnnler.
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      718 13 CLI'ES ACROSS 6 This person seems madly 1 Link poison with tripe maybe to be someone bringing inln grammar (11). clement weather! (5-6). 8 Queer times, by the sound of 7Do these people desire for it (8). something by a water hold--9 Holyrood Palace has always er? (4-7) had some
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    What's YOUR favourite sport?
    161 14 apillllllllll iniiiii iiiiiiiiiimiiiiimimr \/^HAT is Singapore's favourite specta- E tor sport? Surprisingly it is not E badminton. r While c; national game is played by 1 aI- a c percentage of the population, it is iiot the top choice for spectators. This fact emerged when the
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    A LINE-UP TO BE PROUD OF
    335 14  - A LINE-UP TO BE PROUD OF ARCHIE QUICK By WHAT a remarkable combination of football brains Notts Forest are fortunate enough to possess In Manager Billy Walker they have the longestserving official m the same post m the League. He became manager m 1938. Eighteen years, m the jungle that
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    Lock icon Japs defend sponge bat
    115 14 JAPAN will oppose a reported move by English and Hungarian players to outlaw "sponge" paddles m the World Table-Tennis Championships to be held m Stock holm m March. A spokesman for the Japan Table Tennis Association told MffflMl "such a move to outlaw sponge paddles means
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    R.A.F. SELETAR TEAMS SHINE WITH THE FLOODLIGHTS
    968 14  - R.A.F. SELETAR TEAMS SHINE WITH THE FLOODLIGHTS JOHN P HAMILL klhjlh 'PHE week's sport was eclipsed by the first same of hockey under the new Station flood lighting system, arranged on the No. l pitch. A record crowd turned out, and they weren't disappointed as to the standard of play.
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