The Singapore Free Press, 16 May 1957

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. ***** Singapore, Thursday, May 16, 1957. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 507 1 BRITISH ACCUSE SOVIET Red tests exposed Russians to harm AS Britain was setting off her safeguards-surround-ed H-bomb test m the Central Pacific yesterday, the British United Nations delegate accused Moscow of having exposed the Ru population to radiation harm m the Soviet nuclear tests. Commander Allan Noble, British delegate to
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  • 310 1 'ACT ON FLU' MEMBERS of the Singapore City Council and the Rural Board today appealed to the Government to distribute .medicine for combating effects of flu m suburban areas anti kampongs. They said the time had come for the (i<>\ crnment to get out of what they called the "lethargic
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  • 559 1 Hell bomb unleashed m stratosphere over the Pacific All precautions taken RRITAIN YESTERDAY EXPLODED HER FIRST HYDROGEN BOMB AND THEREBY NOT ONLY CAUGHT UP WITH THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA IN THE THERMO NUCLEAR RACE BUT BECAME THE FIRST POWER TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER
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  • 30 1 June first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at 90| cents a lb., down a quarter of a cent on yesterdays close. The tone quiet.
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    21 2 A new portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, one of the stars E m George Stevens' production "Giant," now showing m Singapore -TiiiiHiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimimiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiMimmmiiir
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  • 197 2 Reciprocity for our big imports Trade mission m Spore l APAN will step up the inanufacturo of rubber products this year and will buy more r:\\\ rubber from Malaya. Thus was disclosed to the Free Press yesterday Mr. H. Tone, the leader of the 10-man
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  • 58 2 OOLICE last night raided houses m various parts of Dublin and arrested nine men under the Offences Against the State Act. It was reported that a quantity of gelignite and firearms were seized m one of the houses. Eire police have recently been taking
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  • 65 2 T'HE Provincial Oovernment imposed a limited form of food rationing on the 45 million people of East Pakistan on Tuesday, according to reports reaching Karachi, yesterday. Reports over the past two months have spoken of a looming food crisis m the province, which only last November
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  • 35 2 Picture Post, one of Britain's two popular photographic weekly magazines, will cease publication on June 1. because of competition from television and Increasing production costs, it was announced m London yesterday.
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  • 189 2 IN order to serve the less fortunate people of his community, the president of an organisation m Singapore has come down the ladder to do a part-time Job of door-to-door peddling. His wares cinema tickets for a morning screening of a Tamil show "Dr. Savithri"
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  • 51 2 WINNERS of last week's "Free Press Prize Quizzes" are: Quiz 1 Miss J. Mosbergen. 210-4 Queen Street, Singapore. Quiz 2: Miss Margaret Mok. c/ Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. Quiz 3: Miss Teresa Teo 492-0 Upper Serangoon Road Singapore 19. Special Quiz: Tommy Goh, 23, Grange Road,
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  • 216 2 Danger to racial harmony A BRITISH journalist and photographer, Mr. Hugh Gibb. who recently spent ten months m Sarawak, warned that the emphasis on Chinese nationalism there could greatly damage that Colony's future racial harmony. In a parting Interview at Kuching, he said: "In many Chinese schools,
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  • 33 2 Professor Walter Perceval Yetts, authority on Chinese art and archaeology, died on Wednesday at his country home m Buckinghamshire, -England, it was announced m London today He was 79. Reuter
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  • 101 3 Labour's plan to aid aged The British Labour Party last night oilered the British people half-pay retirement pensions of up to £15 sterling a week at the age of 65 under a national superannuation plan. The Party, if returned to power at the next General Election, intends to introduce this
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    32 3 Britain's Calder Hall, the world's first atomic power station to pro- duce cheap electricity according to spokesmen of the U. S. Ato?nic Energy Commit* sion it is cumber some, expensive and dangerous.*'
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  • 363 3 'Foul tactics m A-sales drive BRITISH newspapers yesterday accused American atomic officials of "foul play" and charged them with trying to wreck prospects of British nuclear equipment sales m Japan by deliberate misreoresentation. "U.S. fights our atom sales with slanders" said a headline m London's Daily
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  • 61 3 A total of 759 socialists have been arrested m the towns and cities of Uttar Pradesh province, India, since the party's passive resistance campaign against British influences m India began last Friday, according to. latest figures last night. Attacks against statues of British notables have now
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    47 3 PIGGY CTMMINS. the liffht-heurted a< tress from Ireland, breaks from her famili ir roles m "Hell Drivers" m which she la seen M WSf sultry flrl S working In hanUrc depot. The film vis made at Pinewood Studios and on location on the roads of E Britain
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  • 40 3 The annual public speaking contest for secondary schools, organised by the Singapore Rotary Club, which was to have been held at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus tonight, has been postponed because of the influenza epidemic.
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  • 71 3 A man m Bijon, France, who carried a bullet m his head for 30 years without knowing it now carries the bullet and part of his skull m his pocket. He is Charles Renaud, 45--year-old father of five children, who lost an eye m a
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    41 3 picture When the Duke of Windsor, who is now Hi a short visit to London, attended a dinner last week the United Services Club. Trie srt a new fashion by wearing a deep bow tie with a cutaway collar. Paul Popper
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  • 217 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 16, 1957. Opinion Now Peking tries it PEKING'S bosses, mindful of the lessons of Hungary and Poland, appear to be easing the rigid Rus-sian-pattern dictatorship imposed over Red China's 600 million people. Instead of repression, Peking is apparently using methods of sweet reasonableness and
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  • 165 4 The U.S.A. 337 years ago \,f AYFLOWER 11, is on her way from Plymouth, Devon, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, sailing the route the Pilgrim Fathers sailed 337 years ago. What was America like m 1620? fc Most of the great American continent belonged m those days to the Red Indians and
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  • 694 4  - FEW FRANK FACTS FROM A TEACHER P.M. RAMAN Reporter s Notebook hn BUT for influenza epidemic we certainly would have heard more about the rights and wrongs of juvenile hair-cuts. Challenging statements like "threat to democracy" and "denial of basic rights'* were already m the air when even politicians felt
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  • 168 4  - BY THE WAY Beachcomber by WHAT! Does the old gambit still flourish? A girl has complained that she was deceived by a man she met at sea. He told her he was heir to a peerage and a fortune. Foulenough used to play this trick, but he was usually an
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  • 83 5 ARMED men have been up the lock gates of the Newry Canal m Northern Ireland. The canal runs inland from the port of Newry on the east coast to Portadown. A police spokesman said that preliminary examination in- dicated the port mteht be out of
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    53 5 The Malay Welfare Council has sent supplies of rice, sugar, salt and other foodstuffs to the inhabitants of Pulau Sudong. an island nine miles from Singapore, the majority of whose inhabitants are down with flu. This Free Press picture shows island boys giving a helping hand to unload the supplies
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  • 48 5 The Royal Mint m London produced a total last year of 499,544,813 coins— almost ten million every working day. Though 68 per cent were British, 17 per cent were from other parts of the Commonwealth and 15 per cent from foreign administration*.
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  • 301 5 A mystery exhibit raises laugh HE WANTS TO ENTER A FEMALE WILL visitors to the TT Singapore Rotary Club's forthcoming hobbies exhibition see "42-26-38 Rose Chan" on stage? Up to this morning, there was no possibility, because the organisers of the show had decided to dismiss the application as a
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  • 183 5 COMMUNIST countries \s are gradually increasing their textile exports to Malaya, according to Singapore Chdanber of Coilmerce members. They said this was because of the low cost of labour and also to manipulation of price settings on an "export only" basis. During l!)f>6, imports of textiles from
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  • 227 5 It's now a Question off scale off ffees High-level talks m new bid for solution lIIGH-LEVEL discussions are now being held to clear some of the snags which are preventing Singapore's newly-appointed Director of Legal Aid from assuming his duties. Mr. S. E.
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  • 87 5 'BODY' TAG IS BANNED MARIE MCDONALD signed a $60,000 Las Vegas contract yesterday that prohibits the use of her famous label "The Body." The curvesome victim of Hollywood's most publicised kidnapping case staged a gala contract-signing party at the ftfoulin Rouge nightclub m Hollywood. Wilbur Clark, operator of the Desert
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  • 128 5 AN audience of about 300 thoroughly enjoyed Itsell at the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers" at the Cultural Centre of the Singapore Council for Adult Education m Fort Canning Road last night. Hie ovations, loud and sustained throughout the New Sceneshifters' first production, reached
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    • 174 6 irVXlillAliir by Loe lalk ami Phil Davis H«^" x TWE FLOOR--) T^MANPRAK-E V z^' I kOW CAW I T THIS IS '1'.%1k/.\.\ by E«l»ar ltir«» Etiirr«Ji«hs THE SAI^T by Leslie Charter is JAKE by Ilubbard Z34^f \/APOLOG<SE] |/APC?LOGiSEr^CECTAiNLV^/^.. BLfT iP A CUSTOMEC IS^\ffVou MAY TWINkfTV^ JS= VOJ SPEAK JO \TO
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    • 478 6 |>ORN today, you have a rather I O stern nature and the mind and attitude of a disciplinarian who wants directions followed to the letter and no questions a.sk»-d. You have the ability to face facts, be they pleasant or unplear nt. You believe In emotional response— but m the
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  • Bound the World Market Prices
    • 165 7 lunuun, may ia Previous Today lIJBBER N». 1 RSS elf 2 6<t buyers buyers European ports May 2 6\ sellers sellers Jun 26 '< buyers buyers ftUBBER No. 1 RSS Spol R* K£ M$ BSS KTRBER No- 1 RSS Settlement 37 buyers 26% buyers House Terms Jane
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    • 112 7 NEW YORK. May I.V Previous Today IIN Strait* spot 98.50 nom. 98.50 nocn. FIN future* Standard Contract May 97 00 buyers 96 75 buyers 98 75 sellers 98 12 sellers Jun« unquoted unquoted rONE: Steady. SALES: Nil. Straits Contract May 98.00 buyers 97.75 buyers 99 00 sellers
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    • 46 7 NEW YORK. May 15 rrtfta— Today 3* Industrials 500.46 SOI.M 2$ Railroads 146 15 146 13 4$ Doo*»Ue BMd« »7 «f W 15 UUUUes 73 88 73 87 65 Stocks Composite Avengt* 174 81 175.11 Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 49 7 Malabar Lampongr spot 28 i. afloats 28 to 27^, Malabar May shipment 27, Lampong May shipment 26 Sarawak spot Above prices quoted 21%, afloats 26%. May shipment 25 June shipment 24 V Muntok white spot 335. afioats 324 to 32, sellers ex-dock, m U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 110 7 LONDON, May 15 Prerioas Today COPRA Philippine, elf. U.K-/ North European deMrered weight per lonj ton May/June $174 sellers $172Va sellers COPRA, Straits c iJ. UK /North European delivered weight per lone ton May/ June £63'* buyers £63 buyers £63 sellers £63 sellers June/ July £63
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  • 575 7 Tension as crew m Valiant soared into space News of its fate is still awaited of the fate of the Valiant jet bomber and crew who dropped Britain's first H-bomb yesterday from about 30,000 feet is still awaited. There is no word yet as to
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  • 93 7 MR. Kaoru Yasui, v* President of the j I Japan Council i against H-Bomb Tests, said m Tokio j i today that his coun- i cil believed that about 15 Japanese i j fishing vessels had i been operating m the Pacific Ocean I area affected
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    • 42 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 12.57 p.m. TOMORROW: 0.06 a.m. and 1.38 p.m. SATURDAY: 0.45 am. and 2.18 p.m. SUNDAY: 1.25 a.m. and 257 p.m. MONDAY: 2.06 a.m. and 3.38 p.m. TUESDAY: 2.52 a.m. and 4.25 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 3.46 a.m. and 521 pjn.
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    • 109 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 p.m. Lunch Time Concert; 1.30 Time Signal and New«; 1.45 Ladies Only; 3.57 For Schools; 5.00 Calling All Hospitals presented by Maisie Concelcao; 6.00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6 30 Radio Dance Club; 6.55 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report;
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  • 794 8 /WERCOMINC handicaps Lim Peng Han, 45, was the eutotanding eempehO tor aY the Singapore Motor Clubs hill climb meet.ng held at the Cap last Sunday In X very first run m his special the chain of h.s supercharger came off a Y
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  • 124 9 yETERAN Malayan motor racing driver, Jimmy Milne holder of the course record for cars at the Gap hill climb meeting, cornered too fast, and was unable to straighten out iii time. Result: his Cooper crashed into a two-feet deep ditch. He wet only slightly
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  • 225 9 •THIRTY motor cyclists took part m the Gap hill climb meeting and as usual they provided many thrills for the crowds lining the course. A notable absentee on Sunday was Singapore champion hill climber, X C. Wong who holds four motor cycle records for
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  • 2299 10  - RIDDLE OF THE DEAD FIANCE... "THIS is a most inexplicable case" admitted Latiff "Here we have the murder of an attractive young woman, presumably by her fiance, a respected doctor. It doesn't make sense." "Can I help?" suggested Lai Peng as she helped herself to Latiff's cigarettes. "I'd be grateful
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  • 327 11 Servicemen at leisure By a Special Correspondent ¥N contrast to the 1956 meeting when heavy rain caused the postponement of some events, the GHQ FARELF 1957 Athletic meeting was held last Saturday m ideal conditions which provided a number of close finishes and plenty of thrills
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  • 334 11 INDIVIDUAL results of the championship meetin c were: 120 yards hurdles: L/Cpl. Hutton, "Q" 20 1 sec. Smith, Q Pte. G Bishop "A" Hi^h jump: Capt J ervy, "Q". 4" 11"; cpi Khagendra A': kin, "A". 880 yards: Sui. P- Vn. "A", 2 'mm. 18 5
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  • 186 12 Reform but by 'gentle means' CHENG FENG, says the People's Daily of Peking, must be carried out by methods "as gentle as a breeze or a mild rain." Cheng Feng means a rectification camp aign that is. a campaign to cleanse party members and masses alike of "incorrect thoughts." Muss
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    82 12 In jovial mood at the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation Council I meeting m Parliament House at Can- berra, delegation leaders link hands. They are (from left) the Earl of Home (Britain)', Mr. T. I. Mac Donald •••■.in m iint iiiii ji t m 1 1 1 11 1 11 1
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  • 263 12 And less of 'wasteful' remote control rpHE chairman of China's National Economic Commission has suggested greater local management of many light industries and small iron and coal mines, and more local control Qf labour and wages, the official Peking People's Daily reported. The PeopleV Daily was quoting suggestions and comments
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  • 45 12 The standard of Japanese nuclear research is comparable to that of France and Germany, said Professor Koda Husini of Osaka University's Department of Physics, recently m Hong Kong. He is a member of a 20-man Japanese physicist delegation going to Red China. U.P.
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  • 178 12 NEW SURPRISE: PEKING NOW ALLOWS STRIKE THE Chinese Communist Party newspaper People s Daily has defended strike action by workers and criticised officialdom for failure to understand the needs of workers. There had been mass petitions or strikes m some organisations recently, "caused by officialdom and bureaucracy," the People's Daily
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  • 26 12 Communist China's Press corps is demanding more freedom to report actual situations" and less intimidation from Government officials, ac* cordina to Peking Radio.
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  • 19 12 Japan's ruling LiberalDemocrat Party leaders have agreed on a reshuffle of the Cabinet m July, A.P.
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  • Glimpses
    • 164 12 Opposition in Tibet also grows THE Chinese communists have unaeriaKen 1 "considerable thinning-out" of their troops in Tibet during the past two months, according to Tibetan sources in Katmandu, Nepal. rSfie'a S h £e Sl w7re ease off the policy of communisation of the area. This appeared, according to the
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    • 61 12 Dr. Rajendra Prasad. 72. after being sworn m for another five-year term as President, told the Delhi Parliament that India's economic situation and deficits m Central and State Government budgets were a cause of "serious concern" but "they do not warrant crave apprehensions." He said these needs of the second
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    • 14 12 Delhi's Hindustan Times said that "Ceylon likely will declare herself a Republic soon.' A.P.
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    • 37 12 SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT SYNGMAN RHEE SAID "THE UNITED STATES HAS UNOFFIC I A L L V INDICATED THAT IT WILL PROVIDE MODERN WEAPONS TO DEFEND KOREA." HE DID NOT SPECIFY WHAT HE MEANT BY "MODERN WEAPONS." A.P.
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    • 29 12 General Maxwell Taylor U.S. Army ChieL-of-Staff, said In Washington that he would "insist" on atomic weapons being used m a situation similar to that of the Korean war. Reuter
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    • 27 12 The Tokyo economic paper Nihon Keizai reported that the Japanese uovernment planned to open negotiations m August for a treaty of commerce with the Soviet Union.— A.P.
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    • 20 12 The new Nationalist Chinese judge m the Inter national Court of Justice at The Hague is Dr. Wellington Koo.- U.P.
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    • 21 12 Philippine President Carlos p Garcia has described as "pretty good" his chances of winning m next November's nationwide national elections. U.P.
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    • 30 12 The United States has agreed to lease four kilogrammes of uranium to Japan for use m Japan's heavy water type atomic reactors due to be completed early next year.— Reuter
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    • 39 12 The unofficial Japan-Com-munist China fishery agreement is to be extended for a year. It divides the Yellow and East China Seas into six authorised fishing areas and provides three refugee ports m each nation for shlDs m distress.- A.P.
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    • 28 12 Five former Korean prisoners of war have arrived m Buenos Aires from India to start a new life. They had decided not to return to North Korea.— U.P.
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    • 40 12 The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission has announced that "hundreds of previously classified atomic energy documents" will be made public information m a few months m order to help foreign countries like Japan to develop atomicenergy programmes of their own. U.P.
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    • 42 12 The South Korean Vice Defence Minister, Mr. Kirn Jong Kap said m Seoul that a number of North Korean Navy servicemen were receiving training m Russia to operate submarines. The North Korean Navy now has at least one submarine, he added. Reuter
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    • 16 12 North Vietnam and Hungary have signed a goods exchange agreement for 1957 m Hanoi. A .P.
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      438 13 Anne Edwards is given a thousand-and-one tips on how to reduce IMT less, they shout on one side, cut out this for health, cut out that for slimness, count your calories, your avoirdupois, your heartbeats. Eat more, they shout from the other bide, eat this for energy, eat
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      87 13 "Once a woman reaches the ape of 25,'* said a firm voice behind my chair, "she must cut her daily intake of calories by three per cent, every 10 years." Dr. John Durnin, of Glasgow University, speared my duckling with a lancet as he went on to
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      279 13 Chapter Five: A Pirate Ship? COON it grew quite dark, and Timothy could see nothing ex- cept the two little lights, the red and the green, that shone on each side of the ship. But the Captain sailed steadily onwards, towards the spot where they had seen
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 254 13 24 Sight a secret agtnt (3). I? I I j5 |4- B 5 |6 25 Certain inside enjoyment ~BnM| Mtt HB cues down 1 The French end up talkative There is nothing at first In 9 I a key perhaps (6). -jr~ |HB^_JBH pflH__ 4 A politician finishes a cess
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  • 357 14 Clocks 39 2 wide out cji heavy X.L track By ALLAN LEWIS lOHN SILVER (MorJ timer), suing better than Park II (Kaniis), was one of the most attractive woikcrs at Kuala Lumpur this morning on the Number Two track which is heavy. Working fairly wide
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  • 423 14 PLEASURE PARK'S easy win m the main race at Kuala Lumpur yesterday was the highlight of the day's racing. Pleasure Park completed a double for the meeting and proved what a certainty he was the first day m Div. Three. He is
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  • 312 14 Wrights for third day K.L. races. CL. 4. DIV. 1 9F. Huitenzorß 9.00 Mont Blot II 8.13 Clever Bug 8.11 Tufton 8.10 Windsor II 8.08 French's Forest 8.07 San Fernando H. 06 Reasonable 8.04 Thre« Dimension 8.03 Nab II 8.02 CL. 4. DIV. 2 9F. Bright Sun
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  • 436 14 DAVE OWEN, a 22-year-old muscular University of Michigan aeronautical engineering student, may be the next shotputter to surpass the 60-foot U8 metresj mark. The six-foot, 220-pound athlete of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose best performance m competition is 59 ft (17.7 metres), Ls determined to
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  • 188 14 AT a time when the apparent need for the institution of a substitute law m English football is being warmly debated following Manchester United's misfortune m losing their second goalkeeper m successive Cup Finals— the Football Association announced that they will oppose a
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  • 431 15 RAMADHIN AGAIN AMONG THE WICKETS. BUT... GOONESENA, GREEN AND DEXTER SAVE SIDE FROM A ROT 4 FINE innings of 55 by their captain, (iamini Goonocna, of Ceylon, and admirable knocks by David Green and Ted Dexter, both 16, helped Cambridge University lotal 225 against the
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  • 130 15 LOW LEADS WITH A RECORD 66 (GEORGE LOW, 27-year-old Scottish-born assistant at Enfleld, Middlesex, equalled the course record of 66 to jump into the lead of a star-studded field m the first round of the Swallow Penfold Professional Golf Tournament m Glasgow yesterday. Low's great round name towards the end
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  • 102 15 PRINCE Edward Boys' Club will meet Pasir Panjang B.C. m the Reyner Trophy soccer final at the SRC. tomorrow at 5.15 Prince Edward are joint holders of the Trophy with Jalan Eunos. Thirteen clubs competed m this year's tournament. Tomorrow's teams are: Prince Edward:
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  • 52 15 Rocky Marciano, former world heavyweight boxing champion, looked on approvingly as the winner's co-manager when light Leavjnveight Billy Ryan knocked out Joe Green m the first round m Lowell, Massachusetts, last night. Ryan has won six of his irst seven professional bouts oy knock
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    62 15 pictures. ABOVE: Leeds* fullback J. P. Quinn (No. 1) is over the line to score the first try against Barrow m the Rughy League Challenge Cup final at Wembley on May 11. Leeds won by 9-7. RIGHT: Another try for Leeds. Two Barrow player s tried to stop second-row forward
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  • 29 15 England beat Denmark by 4 l m their World Cup soccer match at Copenhagen last night. The teams were level I—l at half time. Reuter
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  • 98 15 CLOSE of play scores m yesterday's cricket matches were: At Worcester: Worcestershire 115 for three versus Northamptonshire. At Birmingham: Nottinghamshire 144 for eight versus Warwickshire. At Manchester: Lancashire 254 (Puller 121 Scotland 15 for no wicket. At Ilford: Glamorgan 146; Essex 157 for two <
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  • 66 15 /^ERRY OAKLEY, of England, who has been topseeded to meet South Africa's Gaeton Koenig m the men's singles final of the Guildford Tennis championships yesterday defeated J. M. Watson of England 6 4, 6 2 to enUr the charter finals. B. E. Woolf, New Zealand, ted
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  • 223 15 niCK SPOONER, RJ Warwickshire and England wicketkeeper, helped m the dismissal of the first live Nottinghamshire batsmen for 22 runs at Ed<?baston yesterday, but was not able to challenge the world record of seven m an innings. Nottinghamshire achieved a partial recovery through Ken Poole and
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  • 18 15 Glenavon beat Cliftonville 3-1 m an Irish Gold Cup soccer semi-final m Dublin yesterday. Reuter
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  • 609 16 Mollet is adamant on Suez Canal boycott Disausted with allies PRANCE'S Prime Minister Guy Mollet said yesterday he was so disgusted with the decision of France's allies to stop boycotting the Suez Canal that he offered his resignation to President Rpnp Cntv hiH Cotv persuaded
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  • 158 16 BLAST AT ATOMIC STATION Explosion misses giant A-reactor A chemical explosion yesterday injured four persons at the Brookhaven National Laboratory one of the principal atomic research centres of the United States. One of the injured was reported m serious condition. Six other persons were exposed to corrosive acid vapours during
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