The Singapore Free Press, 18 January 1957

Microfilm: NL5633
Total Pages: 28
1 12 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore Friday. January IS. in:> 7. |'ri< c l.iCts.
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    Lock icon UK WON'T BE SATELLITE OF UNITED STATES
    988 1 UK WON 'T BE SATELLITE OF UNITED STATES MAC MILL AN REPEATS EDEN'S WORDS: HISTORY WILL FIND US RIGHT ON SUEZ ACTION BRITISH DESTINY IS WITH EUROPE gRITAIN has told the United States that (a) she does not intend to be a satellite of America, (b) Hritain remains the banker
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    'Student revolts sweep Russia'
    221 1 PAPERS REPORT GREAT UNREST THE West Berlin newspaper. Telegraf, reported yesterday that Red army troops hav e crushed an anti-Communist demonstration m the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev. It also said "student revolts' 1 are sweeping across the Soviet Union. The newspaper attributed the story to
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    Rubber price
    31 1 February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this mor ning at 93 5 8 cents a lb.. down 2-j cents on yesterday's close The tone was uncertain.
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    Army expansion now—Tengku
    164 1 Army expansion now— Tengku THE Federation can now go ahead and expand its armed forces, the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. told reporters when he arrived at Kuala Lampur h.v train from Singapore this morning. He said that the armed forces could be brought up to full strength as a
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    Lock icon "Quake fears in Japan
    66 1 THE 10,000,000 people m the Tokyo-Yohokama Metropolitan area yesterday were started from sleep at 7 a.m. local time when the latest of a .series of earthquakes shook the capital city. After a record 40 days of drought there is talk of "earthquake weather" and at Ito
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      34 1 POCKET CARTOON b> OSBfcRT LANCASTFft 1 1 .fo\J But. MuMdte da, ling you miot reoiise weren't for the mil up t*/r yhouldu t hove any army |or tht America** »«of» us from ttiing 1
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      105 1 BRYLCREEM y^ for smart healthy hair Use Brylcreem every day and see what a difference it makes to your appearance. Brylcreem J is not messy, not greasy, it gives the clean, smart look preferred by all well groomed men. BRYLCREEM gives the hair a soft natural lustre, i so different
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    S.S.T. SHOWS THE SCORE AT
    333 2 NOVEL Scoreboard has been erected at the former Kaliang airport to indicate the progress with the Singapore Improvement Trust's multi-million dollar housing project there. The board, measuring about 32 feet long, 17 feet high, and standing about, 12 feet above the ground, is situated at
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    Lock icon Storms whip through U.S.
    42 2 A HEAVY snowstorm yesterday hit much of the north east United States which only two days ago suffered its coldest weather of the winter. The New York Weather Bureau described the storm as "dangerous and intensi- lying."— A.P.
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    H-aid was poor
    217 2 RESPONSE from Malayans to the Hungarian Refugee Distress Fund "is pathetically poor, an official of the British Red Cross Society m Singapore said today. The society launched the fund early m December last. Hungary's plight has aroused little interest locally. Singaporeans of all races, excluding Europeans, have
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      247 2 j^ 111 £rp 'U]; yiamonds y^^p .iriENA I/ h N^-^7 Mi HIHERVA Athena. Plastic and black I suede decorated with >^ di-imortics. Class heels. $\0 I§L% KJ I $25.90 *ysggr II Sabrina. Blue or green f k N Y y^ plastic, rfcinestone V SABRINA i AN /W buckle and heels.
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    Lock icon All set for the New Year
    290 3 All set for the New Year SHOPS FULL OF SEASONAL GOODS .J NGAPORE merchants O have enough stocks m hand to meet the demand of Chinese New Year shoppers despite the del?y m shipments of additional merchandi.se from Hong Kong. They said that they had imported mo.st of the goods
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    ROSE STILL IN A STORE
    214 3 ROSE STILL IN A STORE BRITAIN'S gift to Singapore, the Tudor Rose, is m danger of becoming a wall flower. No definite arrangements have yet been made to carry out the proposal to instal it m the Assembly House, the Free Press was tuld yesterday. When the 18-inch square sandstone,
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    Lock icon LLOYD FLIES TO ROME FOR TALKS
    73 3 LLOYD FLIES TO ROME FOR TALKS 1 T'HE British Foreign Secre- > tary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, said before he left London on a three-day official visit to Rome that one lesson of the events of the pa.st few months had been "the need for greater co-operation m Western Europe. "I
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    50 grants going
    49 3 npilK Mala y ft Public Library Association is offering r >o scholarships for needy students m Singapore Chinese Middle Schools this je.ir Thej will be tenable for three years. Applicants must have finished the junior middle school. Applications should be forwarded to the Ministry of Education.
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      Opinion Safeguards needed
      193 4 Opinion Safeguards needed POVERNMENT insists upon proof that a person has the necessary qualifications before he or she can start a medical practice m Singapore. And quite rightly, too, because the safety of the public is at stake. But no qualifications whatsoever evidently are required by those posing as "doctors"
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    Lady Dorothy moves to NO 10...
    711 4  -  ANE SHARPLEY E% The wife of Mr. Macmillan, the new Prime Minister, would have liked nothing more than a quiet life. But hhe has taught herself to face up to the increasing share of public duties that will now be placed upon her tK>R
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    BY THE WAY
    100 4  -  Deachcomber ■EH A SUGGESTION that children should be taught to take off their caps to those drivers who are courteous enough to allow them to cross a road is a very niggardly return for this privilege. Could not all children spare a moment to approach drivers, ask
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      20 4 (UNJSS inrf^e llAr r I N L J^S P. H. Hendry y Manufacturing Icwcllcr 78, North Bridge Road, SINCAPORE. 6. < <
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      120 4 '^^BHl^Si^^" 1 BT Hi' A^afdj jßfso^x^^^ 111 x *^t!^^J Ja Ft&Mp&Pßl&tt WE7^y s/^\ 111 I^^^SraPHH 0^ V 111 -<3 13 *****3E9 mvy^ ill H \^^^^W If K>^ X V i^F X It just came to pieces m my hands' MEDICINE for the Hair! f&Mr CS^) Pr(>vcnts and removes Reduces loss
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    Lock icon U.S. AIDS AFGHANS
    127 5 A M 543,500.000 American aid programme to help Afghanistan develop its air services starts on Friday, it was announced m Washington yesterday. The International Cooperation Administration has announced that four experts from Pan American World Airways are due m Kabul at that time to launch the co-operative
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    Pilgrim ship capsizes
    35 5 Thirty Hindu pilgrims Including women and children were feared drowned yesterday after a boat capsized m the River Hoogly seven miles from Calcutta. Police said rescue launches have been sent from Calcutta.--A.P.
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    Lock icon MORE PATS ON THE BACK FOR DEAR UNCLE JOE
    353 5 MORE PATS ON THE BACK FOR DEAR UNCLE JOE Mr. X's toast is a blasphemous prayer MORE gushing tributes to Stalin wero paid by the Russian Communist Party leader, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev at a reception m Moscow for the Communist Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou-En-Lai. Proposing a toast, Mr. Khrushchev actually
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    Lock icon Nasser's guest...
    134 5 Nasser 's guest... i I\K. KI)IT II SIM- 1/ MKRSKILL, a Bri- tish Labour Ml., yes- Unlay had a one-and- three-quarter h o v r E meeting with President E Nasser at his Cairo E home. She saij later: "We t talked about everything zz and of course my fay-
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    Lock icon REDS RELEASE 16,000 POWs
    63 5 A United Nations Comml.s- sion on prisoners of war i reported yesterday that Communist countries hart released during the last j year 13,568 German and 2,991 Japanese prisoners of World War 11. West Germany reported to the Commission that 1,594 j German war prihoners were still
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    Lock icon British spies' held
    79 5 British spies' held RADIO Prague yesterday reported the arrest of a group of persons allegedly engaged m espionage for West Germany. The radio said the group, led by a West German businessman Wilhelm Salzig, sought to obtain secret information on Czech defence installations, atomic energy establishments and the nations jet,
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    Lock icon 12 DIE IN U.S. PLANE CRASH
    44 5 An American Air Force piano with 12 crew members crashed and blew to bits m sn,V and pre-dawn darkness yesterday after its takeoff from Fairbanks. Alaska, o na 5,700-mile weather observation flight There were no survivors. A. P.
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    Lock icon Press row brews
    319 5 TIFF OVER ROYALTY GATECRASHkRS AL ON D O N newspaper whose gxri reporter tried to crash the 21st birthday party of the Duke of Kent was severely criticised yesterday by the Press Council, a voluntary organisation of British editors and publishers. The complaint was lodged against the
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      70 5 4 II A D D A i HHi nil BLONDING EMULSION lightens your hair to the exact shade you desire. With Napro Blonding Emulsion you can lighten your hair just n shade or be radiantly blonde. IMJ to use. safe and gentle, Napro Blonding Emulsion contains rich, exclusive oils that
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      129 5 FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR I FESTIVAL DACRON TROUSERS 1 TEST IT BEFORE YOU BUY. KEEPS YOU NEAT AND WELL (iROOMED > AMERICAS LATEST IN TROUSERS i Liehtweight-Cool-Washable and Crease Resisting i ALSO SUITS MADE TO MEASURE S > AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES TO SUIT EVERYONE'S POCKET 1 Excellent Cut— Faultless
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      287 6 m^^ lMMJM^. m^^ iiMtiirtttttM MM^^^ tMl^^^^^^^^^M^^^M^^ sl"\i\ii!ii"\Ki by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I '/AW£n r ///AP7V6£T7V/?OC/6// I tfWTS A Q(//CXM>T£-AA/P 1 THEN-TH6 FOe^TWAT EXPLAINS WAT/V6--rO6fr&4CX7V7M 7Wfi£lY /r//VTO 77/£ /=o6~' ANt? THE BOY-] TWE WOTE. IT O rTWASAH/&/T/HA#£-/CWlffl7 M6NNAY~AtfP W ~#£AL MMIP-A A E E E LA 6^W^S f' i
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      622 6 ''l/iAM^ to U«*^ BORN today, your reasoning ability. Intellect and keen discrimination between right and wrong an- out- i standing characteristics. Your busi- I ness ability is excellent and you have l the tenacity and ability to put into motion any plan which you envlsa You could become one of
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      U.K. dosing prices
      164 7 LONDON, Jan. 17. Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS cJJ. 28 1 buyers unquoted European ports January 28 sellers February 28 buyers 27.; buyers 28% sellers 27 sellers RUBBER No 1 RSS Spot 28' i buyers 17V4 buyers M% sellers 27% sellers RI'HBER No. 1 RSS Settlement
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      New York prices
      100 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 102 12 nom. 101 75 nom. Standard Contract 100^ y 101.12 filers 101 00 sellers M SStSSS SS TONF: Quiet SALES: Nil StraiU Contract m 37 101^5 buyers January 101 75 sellers 101 50 sellers February 101.00 buyers 101.00 buyers
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      U.S. PEPPER
      33 7 Malabar Tampon* spot and Sarawak spot iiui awaiting reawaiting release 27. afloats lease 2U\. ailoau 20 sellers txMU and January shipment 26. dock. /Ibore prices quoted m U.S. cents per 10.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      30 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Previous Today 30 Industrials ..485 05 484 01 10 Railroad, 153-76 1J2.89 40 Domestic Bonds 89 90 65 Stocks Composite Averages ***** J3
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      74 7 LONDON, Jan. 17. Previous Today COPRA Philippines cJJ. U.K./ -£ht pW* n fit/"*! $182 «U« »1« COPRA, Straits cJ f. U.K. /North SKT'ton £55* welsht era £68 buyers lon« ton Jan. i-e» £&Bi/ £gg4 seUer3 Feb/Mar £68 buyers £68 buyers COCONUT OIL' crude Straits £684 sellers
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    Two millionaires and a bill for £130,000
    362 7 Two millionaires and a bill for £130,000 TWO of the world's richest men have had a family row over a few playthings airplanes, the ownership of Monte Carlo, £3.000 wedding presents and things. The sum m dispute was a simple £130,000. Engaged m this quarrel were the Greek brothers-in-law Aristotle
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    20 YRS. JAIL FOR 'FLOTSAM'
    209 7 20 YRS. JAIL FOR 'FLOTSAM' A MAN cleared of murder two months ago has been sentenced to 20 years' jail for desertion. A U.S. court martial at Biishey, Herts, England, found 37--year-old Freeman Reese guilty of quitting his unit m Britain m 1944. Reese, a coloured man from the Deep
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    Lock icon Too young for whisky
    66 7 A YOUNG man walk d to a liquo r itor n Santa Rosa, Calif rria, levelled a revolver at 88--year-old Mrs. Mary Caplt'»nl and demanded whi-!:y and money. "You're too your. said as she handed h J m Mslso but refused to 1 t him take
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    Roll lawn—but Sid said n0...
    119 7 Roll lawn— but Sid said n0... SLIGHTLY-BUILT Sidney Frederick Roberts, aged 37, looked at the lawn, looked at the roller he was supposed to pull, and said, Not me Now ho has served a seven-day jail term. For the lawn was at a reception centre, and m refusing to help
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      93 7 I For #owr s I CHINESE NEW YEAR I SHOPPING 1 I we o/7<er I LOW PRICES I In Men's, Ladies' Children's Wear 1 v» z Household Linen, Furnishings, Carpets, Crockeries, etc. Main* your M p urrhas<>s 1 #i#*r#* A Surv your S I*l TAe Premier Departmental Store.' IGIAN SINGH
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      54 7 a■■■■■ m* I SINGAPORE ■HIGH TIDES' 1 TODAY: 11.53 p.m. a TOMORROW: 1.14 a.m. and 12.39 p.m. SUNDAY: 1.50 a.m. and 1.27 p.m. m MONDAY: 2.25 a.m. I and 2.18 p.m. TUESDAY: 301 am. and 3 11 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 337 a.m. and 4 14 p.m. m Till RSDAY: 4.20 a.m.
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    A-HUNTING WE WILL GO!
    62 8 A MEET of the Heythrop Hunt was recently held m the famous Oxfordshire town of Burford. With traffic almost at standstill because of petrol rationing the hounds and horses had the road very much to themselves as can be seen m the above picture. The Master
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    Safe with no back toils the burglars
    198 8 Safe with no back toils the burglars "pOR two hours burglars struggled m vain to open an office safe. They could have saved themselves the trouble by pulling it away from its place against the wall— for the safe had no back to it. "And this one? All But even
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    Rusty helps...
    44 8 Clearing up the fallen leaves at London Zoo becomes a combined operation, with Ceylon elephant Rusty helping head keeper, Mr. Buck Jones. Rusty can use the broom too, but sometimes gets so enthusiastic with it that the leaves all get scattered again.
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    UNKNOWN
    213 8 He beat up A BURLY "flfhtini years for beat m girl his daughter Pal James Kelly, flfhtini Bailey dock, London. Patricia, eldest of th three Kelly children w;the "little mother" a their tidy, but chill flat i Hilldrop Road, Hollowa; London. She cooked and ihoppc for her father, fo
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    UNKNOWN
    53 9 his daughter man" was jailed for five up a pretty 14-year-old ricia. Thirty-six-year-old head bowed m the Old ad nothing to say. put 29 stitches m the main wounds, and dressed her bruised face and body. Kelly told a detective: "Yes, I hit her, I'll hit you too I'm
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    'I want to be a very wicked woman'
    218 9 'I want to be a very wicked woman' 4 NYBODY want a new mata hari by the name of Maya Koumani? She has the lot. Her black hair falls m soft, caressing waves about a slender creamy neck. Her eyelashes swoop to heaven casting long shadows across blue lids. She
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    PRINCE WHO WED A TYPIST
    117 9 PRINCE WHO WED A TYPIST PRINCE KONSTANTIN ZU SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE has outraged his family by marrying a typist. The prince 25-year-old son of one of Germany's bluest-blooded houses has had to leave his father's castle and Will live with his bride and her grandmother m a three-room flat. A job His
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    The 'private-eye' of a glamour girl
    222 9 The 'private-eye' of a glamour girl ANOTHER beautiful Srirl who wants to do the hunting but m a different way is Yvonne Clarke. She is a girl detective and recently took the plane to Paris m search of the erring husband of a rich middle aged wife. Yvonne was on
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    Scare away those devils, but not with a dangerous
    120 10 It may look harmless -but is it? grow up and halt this senseless, costly entertainment? Other civilised What's festive about a firecracker which sends a badly burned small child to hospital, perhaps to be scarred or blinded for life? countries long
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    BANG!
    421 10 I Says Adelaide Eastley THE CHINESE NEW YEAR is fast approaching. It is time for the timorous to take cover. Or leave town. It will be an open season for firecrackers. And cracker-happy kids, together with immature adults who, each year during the festival season, terrify the city with
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    A rocket
    251 10 .iiiiiii i 111 i ml mill f|\Hlfl jrear the city a 1 peaceful citizens may expect to be routed from their serenity by a new type of cracker the rocket, which explodes a second time when m the air. This joyful missile hisses its way across a crowded
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      41 10 your condition I'd go "Don't say anything you'll You like extrn p«-tr«>l on hi* bcndrr!" r tK ret he may show up yet do nay on l r tabl<> l# m..t« P 1 you don't mind sharing it with other* miKter
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    DRAMATIC SHOTS YOU CAN TAKE
    284 11  - DRAMATIC SHOTS YOU CAN TAKE Jerry Field hv If OOKING through my latest batch of black and white snaps, it occured to me that this— black-and-white, that is— is somewhat of a misnomer. I found prints with shades of grey, tones of black, and off-hued whites. Only one picture was
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    School for photographers
    241 11 Striking oiiitluor ■CCTi iak«»n by |»li«>toi»r;i|*li« r .lrrr> I irhl Q. Everytime I try tak- ing a picture m a mirror I always have trouble. Usually I can get the mirror and the mirror frame sharp but the model's image is blurred. What should I do to
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    Seeing Treble
    129 11 THE picture below is a triple exposure on the same negative. This can only be done with a black background. A reflex camera is recommended for such trick shot. You can outline where to put your subject on the ground glass. Moreover, the camera must be kept m
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      114 11 "LET'S &O TO HOCK SBHG'S ZmM^ HOUSE. WE'LL GET MILKMAID mf^lL To MILK ON BREAD THERE." J W J/ %Mv^WlTv\ Its delicious on bread! i llliiPtl mm NT^ l^' Milkmaid Milk is simply delicious spread on \l I bread so nourishing too and children simply IV Tr^^f II is s0
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    DICTATORSHIP AS A LAST RESORT IN ASIA
    352 12 Ottawa warning ITNLESS Democratic Asian countries are "understood" by the West, there is a danger of them attempting "authoritarian short cuts on the road to modernisation." This warning was given by Canada's Health Minister, Mr. Paul Martin, on his return to Ottawa after
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    Lock icon STOCKPILING OF FOOD SUPPORTED
    94 12 STOCKPILING OF FOOD SUPPORTED CiEYLON has supported a U.N. proposal to start work on setting up national food reserves. Ceylonese delegate D. W. Rajapathirana told the General Assembly's Economic and Financial Committee that, while Ceylon was m favour of the proposal, underdeveloped countries did not have necessary funds and equipment
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    Lock icon Half of U.S. aid is for Asia
    118 12 Half of U.S. aid is for Asia NEARLY half of the 1554,363 million worldwide military and economic assistance programme which President Eisenhower has asked from Congress would go to Asian nations. Washington officials said that 40 to 50 per cent of the total military and nonmilitary projects are destined for
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    Lock icon India is moving forces charge
    82 12 A KARACHI newspaper said that India has moved heavy concentrations of wellarmed troops into position along the Kashmir border. The newspaper Dawn called it India's latest move to browbeat Pakistan into giving up its demands for a plebiscite to settle the future of the disputed
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      Lock icon Japan shifts whole towns
      135 12 Japan shifts whole towns THE first group of 70 farming households under the Japanese Government's programme to send whole towns or villages to Brazil with official financial aid is expected to leave for the Amazon Valley early m May. The Tokyo Agriculture and Forestry Ministry said the new plan was
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      Lock icon Glimpses
      208 12 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN LAOS, IN WHICH THE FORMER REBEL PATHET LAOS FORCES WILL TAKE PART. WILL BE HELD IN APRIL. A.P. Big-name artists from Russia will visit Japan this year and, m return, thej Japanese plan to stage an exhibit of Japanese industrial art works m Moscow, Leningrad and
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    Lock icon JAPAN TO MAKE BIGGEST SHIP
    80 12 THE big Kure shipyard which produced Japan's 72,809-ton super battleship Yamato during World War II is at work on plans for a 100,000-ton tanker. The great ship, costing about M 551 ,000.000, will be the world's biggest when it is launched, a spokesman said. The
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    Lock icon Deadlock broken
    69 12 A DEADLOCK ove r Japanese joint ventures has at last been broken and the Burmese Cabinet Is considering definite proposals for textile plants. This was revealed m Rangoon by Industrie! Minister, U Bo Khin Mating, who recently led an economic mission to Japan. He took back two proposals
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    Lock icon Pearl trade challenge
    60 12 EAST African coastal waters may provide a challenge to Japan's monopoly m the pearl industry, Mr. Leo Lipkin, a Birmingham businessman whose firm deals m Imitation and cultured pearls, said m Nairobi. He described prospects as "excellent," provided conditions prove favourable from the marine point of view
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    Lock icon Envoy to Formosa
    25 12 Mr. Javie r Conde Garcia, Spanish ambassador to the Philippines, has been given the additional post of ambassador to Nationalist China.- A.P.
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    BRIDGE HAND
    340 13 "\"ORTH was not playing weak t l^ two-bkJs. He simply felt i'that his best chance of buying i d|the hand was to make a seem- in^ly powerhouse bid and hope Sthat the opponents' strength would be so divided that they! M would not recognise the fal c 1
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    The Fiction Shelf
    271 13  -  PHILIP OAKES sdsfsadfdasfdasfasf The Ginger Man. By J. P. Donleary. Spearman. PLOTLESS, picaresque story of an over-sexed American, supposedly studying m Dublin on funds provided by the GI Bill of Rights. Originally published m Paris, and lightly censored for the English I edition, it displays a raging,
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    THE ARTIST HAD A TASTE FOR LOW LIFE
    698 13  - THE ARTIST HAD A TASTE FOR LOW LIFE GEORGE MALCOLM THOMAS by The Tragic Lite of Toulouse-Lautrec, by L and E. Hanson. Seek er and Warburg; Chatto and Windus 217 pages. IF there is another biography of Vincent van Gogh I shall shoot oir my left ear. The threat of
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    Book of the Week
    205 13 Book of the Week The Red Umbrellas, by Kelvin Lindemaun. (Methuen, 10/6.) T*HE time is about a century BfO« and the scene a crumbling old mansion, the property of the ageing Marchioness Hermione Schell, m Copenhagen. Once a year, m the summer, the Marchioness used to invite two of her
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      284 13 ||7 wtk < m CLUKf ACROs> (ft). 2 Tur we pool for a game (5, 7 Dismiss a graduate first (6). 4). 11 Thta fulling out of thieves! 8 Unsullied Increase by a (1) direction (5). 14 Gin, Vcra. becomes another 9 City within a city (7). liquid (7). 10
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    242 14 Japanese bid for Far East golf title SIXTY-SEVEN professional and eightysix amateur golfers from i Japan, South Korea. Okinawa. Formosa and the Philippines jester- day opened the fifth Far Fast Open Golf Tournament at Wack Wack course outside Manila. The four-day, 72--hole competition, which carries a top prize of $7,500.
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    GOOD START BY SCC IN KO TIES
    138 14 GOOD START BY SCC IN KO TIES SINGAPORE Cricket Club yesterday took the lead m the second round of this year's S.H.A. Senior Knockout, Competition. In their opening clash at Bale.stier Road, against the Indian Association they won by a single goal. The Indians looked promising at first, but Rajendran
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    A late rally takes REME into finals
    211 14 A late rally takes REME into finals Free Press Ru^by Reporter ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS BECAME THE SINGAPORE IN-TER-UNIT RUGBY CHAMPIONS YESTERDAY AT TANGLIN WHEN THEY BEAT G.H.Q. BY 11 POINTS (GOAL, TWO TRIES) TO SIX (TWO PENALTY GOALS). R.E.M.E. will now represent Singapore against the Malaya Zone champions.
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    INDIANS GIVE THEIR TERMS
    161 14 SINGAPORE Amaleur Football Association yesterday received a cable from Calcutta saying the Indian j Olympic soccer team would play here under certain conditions. The request demand- ed of their Singapore agent, Mr. S.R.P. Naidu a gaurantee that the team would be engaged for at least five
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    TEN THOUSAND POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS
    729 14  - TEN THOUSAND POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS FRANCIS ROZARIO By Plan for more club coaching IN SINCAPORKV* 1 25 BOYS CLUBS A RE 10 ,0 0 I) YOUTHS WITH A LOVE FOR SPORT AND PART TIME HOBBIES. Perhaps one out of this army will rise to world sports stardom, and, say, twenty to
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    17 14 IRELAND BEAT SCOTLAND 5- 4 Ireland brat Scotland 5-4 m an international badminton match last night— Reuter
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    Phew! What a morning for a rugby star
    323 14 Phew! What a morning for a rugby star nOUR AND A QUARTER HOURS IN THE LIF r OF FARMER-RUGBY PLAYER RICK I BARTLETT PUT A HAPPY END TO THE ANXIETIES OF A WORRYING WEEK-END At 6 a.m. 27-year-old Bartlett, after an all-night vigil heard of the safe arrival of his
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE CANY AFFORD TO ENTER
    99 14 SIXTY-FOUR men and twenty-one women players from six Asian nations were listed m the drene last night for the Fourth Asian fable Tennis Championships opening m Manila, on Jan. 24. The co'intrirs are Cam- }>odia, Formosa, India, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam. The playing
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    Aussie athletes head for Europe
    164 15 Aussie athletes head for Europe VICTORIAN Barry Donath. Australia's top-ranking shot-put athlete, plans to prepare m Europe and America for the Empire Games at Cardifr. Wales, next year. Donath is booked to leave Melbourne by ship for London on March 23. He will be accompanied by Preston dub-mate Clive Rutherford,
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    RACE by RACE by ALLAN LEWIS
    1738 15 COPACABANA IS BEST FOR IPOH MAIN EVENT fiOPACABANA, /•[SL though penjrtH? aliseel 14 lb. for rSM^his first win over 1 fIM nine furlongs is MM my choice for lift the (lass 2 event I over i miles, j^jV rn.iiji ra< r il i JJ
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    46 15 Probable scratching s T)RORABLF scratchings at Ipoh tomorrow arc as 1 fullnus: Ev Careful. Sandown 11. (iay Carnival. Satisfar- E tion. Acrostic. Rahagia. Banker Boy. Fair Nipper. I'lulecided. (iolden Dollar Kamsbury. Verni. Rubber j Packer, Violetta. Actor 11. Pal O'Mine, Well Beinp. E Santa Claus. 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiimii
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    IF YOU WANT A WINNER TOMORROW...
    68 15 IF YOU WANT A WINNER TOMORROW... I X rkRDER your Free j Press early to- <> morrow or you may find the newsagent sold out. j; Our Race- Day J o Special supplement J is the most popular i X guide of all for Ma- J J; layan punters. J
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    93 16 A strange piece of apparatus looking more like a piece of abstract art than anything else, is m i fact a new traffic signalling device now m use on the roads of Paris. Invented by sculptor Nicolas Schoffer is has been i called the "Cypsi." The first
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    289 16 IKE 'BACK BENDS' TO DODGE WAR IN MIDDLE EAST D ulles made secret report Must be real danger THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, has told Congress that President Eisenhower would "lean over backward" to avoid uaing American troops m the Middle East "unless there was real
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    54 16 A special Nicosia court has jailed a Cypriot Greek coffee shop owner for two months for displaying m his shop photographs of six Cypriot Greek youths hanged for Eoka crimes. It was the flr.st conviction of anyone for displaying pictures of executed terrorists —an offence under
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    44 16 Straits Times Free Prew For the convenience of advertiser* our representative at Ist. floor, SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will receive small advertisements and onswers to box numbers. Classified advertisements may also be handed to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD. Winchester House, Coilyer Quay, Singapore.
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    98 16 BRITAIN has asked the Yemen Government to open peace talks on the settlement of the Aden-Yemen frontier dispute, the Foreign Office announced m London last night. The British Government Is awaiting a reply from Yemen on the proposal to seek an end to the border fighting
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      7 1 CHINESE NEW YEAR Friday, January 18, 1957.
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      15 Days of Joy
      718 1  -  Lim Kim Kew KEAJI OF THE ROOSTER GAIETY WILL COST MILLIONS WHEN ALL HEARTS ARE GENEROUS by (JHINESE m Malaya and the world over will hold their Litest annual carnival on their lunar New Year Day which falls on Thursday, January 31. No other festival m
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      Maidens appeal to goddess for handsome husbands
      699 1  - Maidens appeal to goddess for handsome husbands K.S. CHIA by fJHINESE New Year Day is a time for prayer and maidens, mothers, widows and grandmothers crowd temples to ask their deities for a year of happiness and prosperity. All of them seek out Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, on
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      NIGHT OF ROMANCE
      346 1 of little account. The New Year calendar, listing major events, runs as follows: Saturday. Fob. 2: Most of the shops reop n tor business, it is generally regarded as an unlucky day for visits and outdoor tr ps. Sunday. Feb. 3: household gods return from heaven after
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        91 1 Only from 2nd to 26th January inclusive djJJPH One attractive shining RED LION Jt^ glass will be given away FREE w.th 40 ernrj j^ every case of RED LlON— orange or pineapple. One bright sparkling F N glass will fl be given away FREE with e^try case of !^*---<C^5 ORANGE
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      ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIP STARTED HIS INTEREST EN FAR EAST
      831 2 A Rockefeller is Asia expert QUIET, slender, shy-appearing man has become m the l;ist quarter century one of the best informed Americans about Asian affairs. He is John D. Rockefeller 111, eldest of the five Rockefeller brothers, part of whose vast fortune
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      The dance with a thrill
      70 2 The dance with a thrill ONE of the most popular of all Chinese customs at times of festivity such as the Chinese New Year is the Lion Dance. And it's no mean f' to be a member of a I. Dance Team, it takes hours of practice and cily tfm,<c
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      Praying for prosperity
      40 2 Praying for prosperity \NOTHER great custom at this tim* is the visit to a Chinese temple to pray for good luck and prosperity In the new year. The picture below shous derotres kneeling m prayer before an ornately decorated altar.
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      ONE JOB PER MAN KEEPS THE PEOPLE HAPPY IN OVERCROWDED TAIWAN
      538 2 Senator Abbas Massoudi. publisher of Teheran's leading H evening newspaper, has given a glowing account of his B impressions during a recent tour of Taiwan. Here is an m extract of an article he wrote for his paper, "Etelaat."
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        142 2 Here's news! Here's value! Here's proof!... "*"""^^^L •BBMHHHHHfIW'((B(BBB(HBH(BBBHBBHIIHBBHfcr^^^J|B^^^^Ji^^^IIB^B||(||(| IHMBHH^^ ■■r fvl jBBfIjMfIjMBB^<WJBBfIfIBMWWMWfIMBMBMBWPB^ -v^ ,'lfllßg v« Mflflflfl* Hr Hr Here are the I %t%3 I v JrmU#m llFmLi Lv Handsome, roomy, built to give five-figure motoring at a four-figure price. For the Cresta, the V r elox and the VVyvern, elegant
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      MORE ASIAN STUDY SCHEMES IN AMERICA
      415 3 MORE ASIAN STUDY SCHEMES IN AMERICA fHE increasing interest of Americans m the cultures and problems of Asia is reflected m the number of l\ S. universities offering special programmes of graduate studies devoted to Asia and the Far East A list compiled by the Department of State m Washington
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      It's always swimtime here
      112 3 It 's always swimtime here niRLS of Singa- pore and the Federation are lucky, for it's always swimming time here and it's so nice and comfortable to be able to have attractive beach clothes. Artist Demachy has sketched four swi?n and play outfits. On the extreme left is a Florentine
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      Research on Chinese society
      505 3 In some cases the institutions support publication of material on the area, making their research available to scholars and others interested m Asian affaire. V 2 Itiittfimtft'^ rIE University of California's Institute of East Asian Studies has a large faculty and provides training m no less
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      U.K. INTEREST IN CHINESE CULTURE
      226 3 THE China Society m Britain held its 49th Annual Meeting m November m London, two days before the Jubilee Anniversary of the organisation. It was on November 23, ISO 6, that a body of enthusiasts founded the Society with the object of promoting better understanding
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      An Asian Fable
      241 4 gEVERAL charming examples of Tibetan folk tales and fables give testimony to the humour and story-telling skill of the Tibetan people. One of the most enjoyable, entitled The Work of Six is reproduced here. to be buried by ox dung as he was driving the ox before
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      The Work of Six
      204 4 /^NCE upon a time an Earthenware Pot, a. Mud Pie, a Turnip, a Fly, a beard of Chingko (a kind of barley) and a Needle held a meeting to divide up the housework. The Earthenware Pot was the housekeeper, and divided up the work among them.
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      EAT CHINESE FOOD AND STAY SLIM
      519 4 says an American woman (.001) way to avoid getting fat is to be born a Chinese, another is to eat Chinese food, says Florence Pike, who owns one of New Yovks most successful Chinese restaurants. Mrs. Pike got into the restaurant business somewhat by
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      U.S. university selects its most outstanding and popular member
      88 5 U.S. university selects its most outstanding and popular member |^_2i_ :-:V ...s&P I The mild soutnern climate of tur e above, "most popular stud- n.s courts. Tensely waiting for Florida, where Stetson University enf Chang Vi Han smashes a the r eturn is Vi Han's partner, is located, is conduc.ve
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      Chinese stdudent is MAN of the YEAR
      561 5 Chinese stdudent is MAN of the YEAR 1 Another hobby of Vi Han S is painting. ■E when he gets 2 the chance. His favourite medium i« 3 water colours: 3 his favourite thetne is the East. Here he dabbles at an easel m H the university's art studio. I
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      428 6  -  HAPPY LOW Story by Picturesque rites of the Straits Chinese STRAITS-CHINESE traditional weddings are. rare nowadays, because ther* are not many conservative and typical "Babas" and "Nonyas" (as Straits-Chinese men and women of old are called) left with us Besides, the present day JUraits-Chinese with
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        265 6 KONG HEE FATT CHOY WE WISH ALL OUR CHINESE FRIENDS GOOD HEALTH AND PROSPERITY IN AS THE NEW YEAR IS THE TIME FOR NEW THINGS WE BRING YOU Ti B" W~ "B "B X wonderful new things pictures and words can give you some idea of the glorious about Holden
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      Mandarin robe far a star
      19 7 Hollywood film star Cyd Chansse poses elegantly m a Mandarin robe of Chinese broc
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      PLANE SPRAYS city with PERFUME
      665 7 PLANE SPRAYS city with PERFUME JJOWADAYS perfume plays hit important part m all our lives, whether we like it or not, and whether we are men or women. On festive occasions, like Chinese New Year, it plays a more important part than ever. It sweetens the air of theatres, cinemas
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      It's Just another Peking trap tar scholars
      888 8 MAO'S NEW LINE FOR NATIONS INTELLECT! ALS ANALYSED B\ A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LAST May 26 m the solemn state pavilion of the most beautiful part of Peking's Forbidden City the melodious saying, "Let all flowers bloom together, let all schools of thought contend/
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      Propaganda aimed at Overseas Chinese
      678 8 Propaganda aimed at Overseas Ch in ese chanism after all is the easiest to champion." In another letter Hu wrote: "There is a great cloud of depression over the realm of art literature. Voices stemming from reality hay? been frightened into silence." And Hu made a conclusion as to the
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      FESTIVAL CUSTOM
      31 8 Stilt walking is a favourite pictures above and below will Chinese custom at times of festr doubtless be frequently vity and scenes like those m the during Chinese New
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      MURDER in Suite 101
      997 9 The photographer and the gossip writer... their visit to the star's hotel room was 'strictly business. So they said. JOE, the white-jacket-ed barman of the American Bar m the Park Palace Hotel, put a Martini before Rod Keever and said: "Anything new on April Day, Mr.
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      Oldest printing in exhibition
      141 9 AN exhibition of many rare Asian treasures relating to Buddhism is being shown m the Sterling Library on the Yale University campus to mark the 2,500 th anniversary of the death of Gautama Buddha. Mr. Waren M. Tsuneissi, curator of Yale's Far Eastern collection, said that
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      A NEW SHORT STORY by HERBERT HARRIS
      319 9 "But rather than inconvenience Miss Day." proceeded Keever, "they redecorated the room while she was m Scotland." Peg Bacon yawned. The Yard man wanted to follow suit, but Keever was watching him. "Look at Barker's pictures Keever said, handing them back. "Of course
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        300 9 Why do Volkswagens command such high second-hand values? THERE ARE SEVERAL IMPORTANT REASONS WHICH, COMBINED, MAKE THE VW THE OUTSTANDING CAR TO BUY TODAY! 1. No "running-in" of any VW is necessary. Consequently buyers of a used model I safely assume that no damage was caused /^W^^ to the engine
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      Reds in China become more
      489 10  - Reds in China become more WENDELL S. MERICK b y PHINA'S Communist bosses became ever more confident of their power during 195(5. Their attitude bordered on downright cockiness. Peking even went so far as to label the antiStalin campaign m Russia slightly m error. According to the Chinese Reds. Stalin
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      Lock icon HONG KONG GAINS EXPERIENCE
      560 10 HONG KONG GAINS EXPERIENCE [JONG KONG, wns shaken to the irrrrs of its complacency during the past year. Despite the nearness of Communist China, it had considered itself a model of tranquility m an otherwise troubled world. But, on Oct. 10, the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic,
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      HONEYMOON FIGHT
      2353 11 Jason did not like himself very much for he was proving to be deceitful on the very first day of his married life J)AVI- GRANGER, had fifteen consecutive K.O.s to his credit when pretty Janet Blair, without Ihe slightest compunction and with very little effort, delivered one to
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      A short story by IRIS SOMERS
      197 11 "Jason!" he called. "Jason!" He hurried after the old man. "O.K.— l'll fight— The manager chuckled, and almost danced with delight. 'But listen. Janet mustn't know, d'you understand. She mustn't know,'* Dave insisted. Jason looked at him with concern. This was a problem, indeed.
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      New Year card seller in Chinatown
      35 11 •Now. what's the idea of taking my picture?" this Singapore Chinatown woman seems to be thinking as she sits on the five-foot way selling lunar New Year greeting cards.
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      DREAM HOUSE
      1106 12  -  KAY SEE by A touching little story for the New Year, of a wayward husband and how he was cured of a dangerous habit. ROSALIE stared unbelievingly at her husband. "But you know I've been saving that money for our dream house, Jack!" •'Yes, I know. Only I
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      The girls don't regret the old days
      533 12  - The girls don't regret the old days K.S. CHIA by MODERN Chinese maidens giggle at any reference to Chap (ioh Meh as the one night m the year when their grandmothers and great grandmothers were allowed out for a drive, to be seen and admired by men who would then
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