The Singapore Free Press, 15 March 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore. Friday, March 15, 1057. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon HATTA RETURN TALKS GO ON
    445 1 HATTA RETURN TALKS GO ON HOPES have been revived of a restoration of the partnership between Javaborn President Sukarno and Sumatran Dr. Mohammad Hatta. This co-operation has been insisted upon by the entire rebel set-up. Disclosure that SukarnoHatta negotiations were going on came soon after the President had assumed dictatorial
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    39 1 No huse ar- now running into Johannesburg on the four main African No buse s ai > Nationalist Government MM will ever run again. ThNt a ine fat," mive i the n«» two-month old bus boycott, by Afruan fares. <i>#
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    SHIP IN DANGER
    43 1 rpHE British merchant ship A Javanese Prince Is drifting with her engines out of order some 100 miles northwest of Kuching, Sarawak. The Australian frigate H.M.A.S. Quickmatch has been dispatched to tow the ship back to the Colony if necessary.
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    Rubber price
    32 1 April first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at 91 3 a cents a lb., up one-eighth of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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    U.K. HAS NEW PROPOSALS FOR S'PORE SECURITY
    463 1 A surprise development at the M -talks significant but no need to worry But everything is still fop-secref From Felix Abisheganaden BRITAIN has put forward several new proposals for the internal security of Singapore. K These have been embodied m a memorandum so
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    FORTY PLANE 'LIFT'
    147 1 FORTY PLANE 'LIFT' ABOUT 3,200 Hungarian refugees will pa.ss through Singapore between Sunday and May 16 on their way to a new life In Australia. They will be flying m 40 chartered aircraft from Vienna by way of Beirut, Calcutta, Singapore and then on to Darwin. Each flight will carry
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      243 1 91 1 j 111 I jI I I 111 ni J I w M II ii 111 II I MAKE-UP NEWS FROM MAX FACTOR A COLOR-FAST LIPSTICK THAT'S KIND TO YOUR UPS r c your lips, helps to keep them softer, Lanol.n-nch. Color-fast lip- JJ£ aUrarlivf stick stay* on, stays
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    Lock icon Problem for wife
    89 2 Bonar Colleano smiles and nestles close to Sally Ann Howes Bonar and Sally Ann are seen during rehearsals for a new play A Hatful of Rain, which opened at the Prince's Theatre m London last week. In the play, Bonar sets a problem for Sally Ann, his
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    BUSINESSMEN WILL BE CHARGED
    201 2 Rural Board to smash racketeers Strict watch is on, Ephraums JHE Singapore Rura against the racket Board has launched a vigorous campaign }ers who build unauthorised shophouses and sell them at large profits to illiterate people. The Building Surveyor of the board, Mr. F. T. Ephraums,
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    Lock icon That seventy year itch
    54 2 SEVENTY-FIVE year old Patrick McKay, was fined £10 sterling m Glasgow Court yesterday for bigamy. The judge said it was a case of "an Indian summer romance." "Bigamy is always a serious matter, but m view of your age I will take an exceptionally lenient course,"
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    Those cuts...
    107 2 Those cuts... THE Singapore Government's policy > generally is to give farmers as much land as they can cultivate and no more, the Per- I manent Secretary to the Ministry for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Mr. lion Sui Sen, said yesterday. I He was replying to fears expressed by
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    Lock icon Nehru returned to Parliament
    44 2 premier Nehru yesterday won re-election to the Indian central parliament, receiving 227,448 votes m the Phulpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh State. His three opponents two independents and a Hindu communal candidate collected a total of 82 493 votes.- A. P.
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    'THERE ARE LIFEBELTS'
    110 2 T IFEBELTS have been installed along Elizabeth Walk, Singapore. The superintendent of the Mount Emily Swimming Pool, Mr. Lee Hon Ming tolrf the Free Press this. He was answering a statement made by the chairman of the Singaporr Lifeguards Corps, Mr. Wong Yip Lung, that it was
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    Lock icon BEVAN: 'NEVER LET DOWN ISRAEL'
    448 3 BEVAN: 'NEVER LET DOWN ISRAEL' Lloyd: '(/.Af.'s test is to face up to facts' MR. ANEURIN BEVAN, Labour's chief spokesman on foreign affairs, said m the House of Commons yesterday that both side j of the House expected to see that Israel's "act of courageous faith" m withdrawing from the
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    Lock icon COSTLY NEPAL SEARCH
    182 3 COSTLY NEPAL SEARCH Want 'abominable snowman' alive TEXAS oil millionaire Tom Slick flew to Eastern Nepal yesterday to open the first stage of a costly hunt for a specimen of the Himalayan kingdom's elusive "abominable snowman.'' Mr. Slick hopes to be the first man to "bring back alive" a yeti—
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    Lock icon Cotton men meet
    31 3 The International Federation of Cotton and Allied Textile Industries will hold a world conference In Venice at the end of September, it was announced m London yesterday.- Reuter
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    Lock icon No rift says Steele
    137 3 No rift says Steele BUT EKBERG LEAVES IN HURRY fHE British actor Anthony Steele yesterday blamed 'living out of suitcases" for any differences that migM exist between him and hi£ blonde Swedish wife, Anita Ekberg. Miss Ekberg flew ofl to Sweden from Rio de Janeiro so hurriedly yesterday that Lhe
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    Lock icon SHIPS COLLIDE IN ATLANTIC
    47 3 The 9,177-ton Dutch ship Waterman, carrying 800 emigrants, including 312 Hungarian refugees to Canada, coH'.ded with the Italian ship S.U. Verit m mid-Atlan-tic yesterday. The Waterman radioed it was m no immediate danger and said the 7,174-ton steamshiu Merit was also safe- U.P.
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    Lock icon Another mad bomber threatens New York
    79 3 POLICE searched the Now York stock exchange for a bomb yesterday while activity continued on the trading floor but no bomb was found. rnknown to the traders the polk* followed up a IHcphone call from a wo- man who said her husband was filing
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    Lock icon Now the oil is flowing again
    137 3 IRAQI oil from the Kirkuk fields started flowing into the Mediterranean port of Tripoli. Lebanon, yesterday after a 130-day stoppage, an Iraq Petroleum Company spokesman announced. The spokesman said the French tanker Aramls begin loading Z5,H% tons of oil yesterday at Baniyas for shipment
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Mar. 15, 1957. Opinion WHY CURB? EXPAND!
    204 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Mar. 15, 1957. Opinion WHY CURB? EXPAND! IN the face of a "tremendous" growth ol demand locally for English education, the Singapore Government is m the position of having to curtail facilities. Next year's intake for English primary schooling is to be reduced from the
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    Yawn they can't stifle at UNO
    728 4  - Yawn they can't stifle at UNO ALAN BRIEN ■r <** iruttsUttfpr's mire m ili*' earphnne* drvn&s 0n THE U.N. Secretariat building is a 540 ft. slab of green glass, sandwiched between wafers of marble. America's most distinguished architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, calls it a "deadpan box with no expression." cr
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    BY THE WAY
    105 4  -  Beachcomber *>H pAZZ TOTOLA'S full-length portrait of Evans 1 the Hearse has angered Aberbananer. The mayor said, 'Evans should be shown on all fours, pushing the pea with his nose. In this portrait he is standing erect, with the pea almost invisible at his feet, like some
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    'BOX WITHOUT EXPRESSION'
    14 4 'BOX WITHOUT EXPRESSION' The United Nations Secretariat building —"a deadpan box with no expression."
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      16 4 mmL DIAMOND SEM SET RINGS P. H. Hendry Manufacturing Icwcllcr 78, North Bridge Road, SINGAPORE. 6.
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      82 4 ILFORD d^^> W^** The ver y wic c ran R e r^ "ford F^" products available to the I photographer now includes m > N less than three varieties of B// fastest film m the world. %A panchromat.c 'f.im to suit %L^^^^j^^t. evCr V WPe of subject and to i/^JiiiißSr*k
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  • Readers Write
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      Any old cheeses?
      119 5 THE Cheese Label Collectors' Club has taken upon itself the mammoth task of compiling a complete record and collection of all cheese labels ever used, for historical purposes. On behalf of the club I would like to appeal to the generosity of all cheese manufacturers, cheese label
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      Modern youth need religion and morals
      388 5 Modern youth need religion and morals IT gave me pleasure to read your editorial of March 11 which took the trouble to air the great concern about the stone-heartedness of present day youth, especially their deliberate disrespect towards their parents. Infilial piety is so shock- ing that unless something Is
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      BAD ROAD MANNERS
      167 5 IT is a fact that the travelling public who vs c Singapore buses are undergoing a lot of inconvenience daily. Buses are driven at great speed along our roads. Drivers apply their brakes suddenly which make passengers who are standing slip and fall and those sitting knock
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      Singapore hazards
      77 5 OUR five-foot ways are a succession of hazards; you trip over children eating their meal as you sidle between stacked bicycles. \ou bark your shins on car wheels as you sidestep to avoid an electric wilder scorching your socks. And then, if you are lucky enough to squeeze
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      33 5 SPECIAL OFFER for One Week Only DISCOUNT 15 to 20ro JEWELLERY, SILVERWARE AND CUTLERY SETS. Commencing Monday 18/3 57 GIAN SINGH CO., LTD. Ground Floor 30-1. Raffles Place, Spore-1. Phones: *****, ***** *****.
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      87 5 ■•CAspovafß' -^-^S HE IS S! RE TO \PTIVATI *hf J^l^C: THE LADIES OF SlN<i\POKL^|jp j WOMEN WELCOMED 4ffW'«L JiW MEN FEARED HIS ARMS JU^Ji»iJ|tSr HIS SWORO "ADVENTURES of CASANOVA" Gabricle FERZETTI Corinne CALVERT Nadia GRAY m EASTMANCOLOR with ENGLISH SUBTITLES (S.E.) l iii«IIBIiil«liBH!l«li:'BiiiiBII!!Bi;!IB:.:Bli:i»ll!«!i'«lii«^"' 1 watches! S^ll 1 Masterpiece 8 precision
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      320 6 IHlllllHllHlHllHilHllllllAliiiiliiilill HIA\IMIAKI<: b> Uc Falk and I'bil Davia ONCf MOC?E INTOTUP LITTLf WE R"F BACK iT s "^YO 6OT US THEN IT v^ *> Tl/Mfc FC6--6OOCBYT TO 52.000 A.7 IN OUR TIME-- If PAYS BEFORE BACK EARLY W k'OALLY PIPN'T --PIRST YOU 6EMtViWASO/LY LISTEM--THE V JULY4«--K. y --ONE PAY I
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      648 6 i /^^—j BORN today, you have a magnetic personality and deep loyalties which are not to be denied. Once you have given your friendship, it Ls c not withdrawn lightly. But. should you believe that you have been betrayed or imposed upon, your wrath j is great and you can
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      171 7 LONDON, March 14. Previous Today RIBBER No. 1 RSS eU. 26% buyers 264 buyers I ui.ip.-an ports March 26}, sellers 26% sellers April 26 H buyers 264 buyers 26? sellers 26 sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 27 buyers 26\ buyers 21^ se »ers 27 sellers KUBBKR
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      New York prices
      127 7 NEW YORK, March 11 Previous Today TIN Straits spot 99 12 nom. 99.75 nom. !TIN future* Standard Contract* March 96 50 buyers 97.37 buyers 98 12 sellers 98.75 sellers April 96.00 buyers 97 00 buyers 97.50 sellers 98 25 sellers TONE: Very steady. SALES: Nil. Siraits Contract
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      46 7 NEW YORK. March 11- Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. Previous Today 30 Industrials 472 53 473 93 2« Railroads 142 92 143 21 40 Domestic Bonds 90 .90 90 98 15 Utilities 71.19 71.41 65 Storks Composite Averages 167.11 167.57
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      U.S. PEPPER
      47 7 Malabar Laxnpong spot 25, awaiting release and afloals 24 f and March shipment 24 Sarawak spot 25, Muntok white, spot and awaiting release 34, •ittoats 33 to 32 and March shipment 31. April shipment 30, sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      101 7 LONDON. March 14. COPRA Philippines c.i.f. UJL/ North European delivered weight per long ton Mai April COPRA. Straits cJ.f. U.K. /North European delivered weight per long ton Mar. April April, May COCONUT OIL crude Straits cJi. U.K. /North European in long ton Mar. April COCONUT OIL
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    A THOUSAND ROYAL LOVE LETTERS AID A PAUPER
    447 7 A THOUSAND ROYAL LOVE LETTERS AID A PAUPER ONE thousand love letters from King Carol of Rumania to his first wife "Zizi" helped the son of that marriage, a 37-year-old refugee, to win the title of "Prince" and a fortune running into several hundred thousand pounds. After a long legal
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    Ike sets off for Bermuda
    58 7 PRESIDENT Eisenhower arrived m Norfolk, Virginia, by air from Washington last night on his way to Bermuda. He was greeted by Admiral Jeraud L. Wright. Commander of the UJS. Atlantic Fleet, who will be host at a dinner before the President starts his six-day voyage
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    Isotopes to the rescue!
    185 7 TTOE use of radio-active I isotopes from Harwell and other atomic energy establishments is saving British industrial firms years of research and thousands of pounds. Scientists can now measure the wear on a tyre after it has travelled 20ft. by incorporating isotopes m the tread. Previously,
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      48 7 SINGAPORE |HIGH TIDES' I TODAY: 10.57 p.m. TOMORROW: 10:51 j a.m. and 11-29 p.m. I SUNDAY: 11.37 a.m. I j MONDAY: 0.01 a.m. and 12.24 p.m. TUESDAY: 0.33 a.m. I j and 1.10 p.m. j WEDNESDAY: 1.06 a.m. and 1.58 p.m. I THURSDAY: 140 am and 2.44 p.m
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    THAT TWO-IN-ONE WEDDING
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    If was all over in an hour
    231 8 Yvonne was just m time to say 7 will' Ten minutes to change dresses less than an hour to change from bridesmaid to bride. That was 19 j year old Yvonne Hopkins s hectic Saturday after- noon. Here's how it happened: At 3.45
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    THE TOWN INFAN RIDDLE OF A N WITH 21b. NTS...
    351 8 THE TOWN INFAN RIDDLE OF A N WITH 21b. NTS A STAGGERING number 31b. 4oz. are being west-country spa m Engli All efforts to find the cause have failed. Concern is so great that it has been decided to ask the Ministry of Health to hold a full-scale inquiry. Most
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    Marbles for the 'Wee Wonder'
    146 8 Marbles for the 'Wee Wonder' MR. GEORGE BURBRIDGE, organiser of the famous marbles championships which take place every Good Friday at Tinssley Green, a hamlet on the Sussex-Surrey border, England, is short of clay m arables. Mr. Burbridge said: "I've only 100 left and we want at least 130. We
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    'FRIDAY' PLAYS HUNT BISCUIT
    145 9 'FRIDAY PLAYS HUNT BISCUIT "Friday" the popular Fallow Deer at the Children's Zo 0 (London Zoo) ha s a passion for biscuits and can be guaranteed to find a biscuit wherever it may be hidden. So hostess Diane O'Grady of ChalkFarm, who looks after "Friday/ has made up a game
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    Fast and furious...
    77 9 Fast and furious rpHE latest and fast- 9 A est version of the 5 Hawker Hunter jet fighter i s now m C squadron service with C 5 the Royal Air Force. E Four of these air- craft from No. 92 C squadron of Fighter Command are seen above m
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    Death drama on bridge
    88 10 Death drama on bridge A WOMAN fought a life-and-death struggle with her husband on the parapet of a bridge 80 feet above a railway cutting al Hooley, Surrey, England. Twice he struggled free from her grasp. "Don't Tom. don't" she cried as she clutched at him. As workmen dashed towards
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    The judge and the prisoner...
    302 10 The judge and the prisoner... ALFRED GEORGE A HINDS, on the run for eight months last year after breaking out of jail, held up his trial at Nottingham Assizes, England, by arguing points of law with the judge and prosecuting counsel. He repeatedly disputed with Mr. Justice Finnemore on procedure
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    BRIDGE HAND
    328 10 fPHE player who tries to play bridge by a set of maxims la In for an unhappy time. "All things come to him who waits'* Is sound policy for some hands; "The best defence is to attackIs the winning motto In others. Which Is which? (Sometimes the answer
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    Phone pup Goldie finds a home
    200 10 E Remember Coldie, Hie pup who was abanE doned m a telephone box m London three weeks 1 ago? Well, he has found a new home, a warm house and a big garden. And a playmate four-year-old Mary Stewart, daughter of Mr. Frank Stewart,
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    Note to police spelt death...
    290 10 A LMOST the last thing Mr. Ralph Moreton did was to write a letter to the village police about his wife. Then he put on his sports jacket and went out to ask a garage man to take the letter to the police station. "My
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    Lock icon Police standby
    17 10 Police and militia are standing guard m Budapest today m readiness for any iemonstrations. Reuter
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    Lock icon SPEED ACE DIES
    21 10 Eugenio Castellotti, the [talian racing driver, died yesterday after a motor »rash on the Moden's Race rrack. Reuter
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      244 10 CLUES ACROSS 2 Mostly a Welsh river for the 1 Melt two shillings inside workers (5). (8). 3 A 'YIP.' with hesitation 4 Rams this way (4). (5). 8 See, we near Neptune's do- 5 Suns do it with heat (7). main (3). 6 He is certainly not at the
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  • School for photographers
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      120 11 J Children and pets go together that no one will Jeny. So don't forget it when you're taking pic- tures. The two subjects compliment each other and help you to get a better picture of both animal and child. Another point photographers should remember I when taking animal pictures is
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      Animal studies are easy...
      589 11  - Animal studies are easy... Jerry Field by MANY photographers believe that the animal kingdom must have been created especially for their camera lenses. Animals are such captivating subjects. They are always doing something interesting or humorous. Even their facial expressions are photogenic and entertaining. Good animal pictures are easy for
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      GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER
      70 11 S Free Press Cuest Photographer S this week is Ali Hashim of 70-H Amber S Street, Singapore. His view of the Vie- S S toria Memorial Hall from Anderson S S Bridge was taken with a Kodak 120 at S S 1-100, F 11. Photographers are invited to
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      Question! and ANSWER
      164 11 Question! and ANSWER 2 %WHAT use is a green-yellow filter m one? If it gives the combined effect of a green and yellow filter, what does it do to skin tones outdoors? asks C.B. of Cecil Street. The progressive range of colours m the visible spectrum are: red, organge. yellow,
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      87 11 The invulnerable Automatic "331" has still other claims. v^^S-Brl^^^^^^jj|W Movado precision reaches JOT\ 1 '^^J^om ts C 'Bht m Autoniatic f/ y' '^X "331" thanks to its new 4 I I <^ v Mnw "giant" balance (patented). 9 VY U CQn n!y n )OUr FACTORIES AT f' r|TW"^;T^^f W^ lli
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  • PULSE
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      Lock icon 'DONT FIRE ON U.K. SHIPPING' ORDER NOW?
      294 12 ■NATIONALIST CHINA is slowly relaxing her policy of violent opposition to dealing with nations which recognise the Peking regime informed sources m Taipeh have told Associated Press. These sources said Britain probably is the chief target of this drive to win friends where
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      'US to join Bagdad Pact'
      77 12 'US to join Bagdad Pact' MR. Horace Hildreth, the American ambassador to Pakistan, said m Quetta that the United States would formally join the Bagdad Pact at an opportune time. The Associated Press of Pakistan reported that the ambassador was answering questions by reporters during his tour of West Pakistan.
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      Lock icon CHIANG ON HOW TO BE AN ACE
      107 12 CHIANG ON HOW TO BE AN ACE CHINESE Nationalist airmen have been told of a dozen ways they can become "aces" none of them easy. Included were killing Communist Chinese chieftain Mao Tse-tung, sinking an enemy aircraft-carrier or shooting down an enemy plane equipped with atomic warheads. Firo tnt r
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      Lock icon Syrians for Tokyo
      27 12 A three-man delegation of Syrian Government officials has left Damascus for a three-week tour of Japan at the invitation of the Tokyo Government.— A.P.
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      Lock icon To visit Denmark
      24 12 Pakistani Prime Minister H. S. Suhrawardy has accepted an invitation to visit Denmark on a date yet to be fixed.— Reuter
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      Lock icon Going to India
      24 12 Polish Prime Minister, Josef Cyrankiewicz will arrive m New Delhi on March 24 on a ten-day official visit to India. Reuter
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    • Glimpses
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        Lock icon Mao told of China's law code lack
        121 12 Mao told of China's law code lack RED CHINA'S legal system was criticised m the People's Political Consultative conference m Peking. "A complete code of criminal law should be worked out," Peking Radio quoted former Kuomintang Minister Huang Shao-hung as declaring. Mr. Huang said he found further shortcomings m the
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        30 12 The Indian Government has accepted plans drawn up by a British company for a £34 million' sterling factory to manufacture heavy electrical equipment at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Reuter
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        19 12 ONE PERSON PIES FROM SMALLPOX IN CALCUTTA EVERY ltt HOURS, ACCORDING TO FIGURES PUBLISHED BY THAT CITY CORPORATION. A.P.
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        19 12 Japan and Nationalist China have launched their first joint whaling operation at the Formosa port city of Hengchun. U.P.
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        20 12 The Indian Government plan to inquire whether foreign shipyards would build vessels for India on a long-term credit basis.— Reuter
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        24 12 South Korean army authorities m Seoul have confirmed that an armf pilot has defected to North Korea, flying a L-19 liaison plane aircraft. Reuter
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        35 12 India has given Burma a loan of Msl 16,000,000 under an agreement signed m New Delhi. Bearing interest at 4% per cent., the loan is repayable m 24 half-yearly instalments beginning m April, 1960.— A.P.
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        44 12 The Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, at its tenth annual meeting m Bangkok between .March 18 and 28, will, among other matters, consider the report on the economic situation m Asia during 195U, also Ocean freight rates m the area Reuter
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        16 12 The new Japanese ambassador m Sweden. Mr. Shigenobu Shima, is now also ambassador to Norway. Reuter
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