The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1958

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1 12 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper N( JJTfI Singapore, Tuesday, August 26, 1958. Price 15CHs
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  • 202 1 U.S. troops in Beirut dig in opposite rebel bastion i s iKOOI'S suddenly took up positions comv landing the rebel Basta quarter in Beirut yesterday while 30 top rebel leaders were meet|ng in the sector to plan their next political move. The purpose of the U.S. deployment was not nadi
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  • 78 1 BIG PAKISTAN AREAS ARE FLOODED 4T least 5.000 square miles A In three districts of East Pakistan have been submerged by floodwaters of the Padma and Jamuna rivers, the government said yesterday. All colleges and schools in area.> have been closed, and railroad service badly disrupted. The area previously had
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  • 69 1 Big election setback for Nehru rOMMuxiSTS and other parties inflicted Co defeftt on the rulin 8 Party yesterday Ejn heir candidate for Ir m Bhowanipore, by c ty was ele cted owm iJv i:i of 10 < 538 V( >tes Nehru-backed opdo- J congreasman, who BSnk£ d as -iudicial st
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  • 26 1 J Jmber first grade rubJ'i III \l?' h o P e ned in r n f r lb., down five Sufet lho tone was
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  • 44 1 The Hampshire County Cricket Club announced in Southampton yesterday that Alan Rayment one of their star batsmen, has resigned to enter the church. He has played nearly 200 games for the club and scored over 6.000 runs Reuter
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  • 45 1 GOVERNMENT troops captured three towns and an airfield in the North Celebes on Aug. 21, Jakarta radio said last night. The radio said army units occupied Lawongan, Klawiran and Sonder. The airfield Is near the last two towns. Reuter
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  • 24 1 The Lebanon yesterday ended the censorship of the local press and of foreign press dispatches imposed nearly four months ago. Reuter
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  • 215 1 TERRORISTS CAUSE HOLOCAUST IN MARSEILLES A HUGE petrol tank at a Marseilles depot, set afire early yesterday in a new flare-up of Algerian terrorism, exploded last night and made a holocaust of the immediate area. Seventeen firemen were injured, three critically, in the explosion which set alight several of the
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  • 276 1 7 U.S. WARSHIPS HURRY OFF FROM STORE Red China keeps up attatks on Chiang isles gLVEN of eight U.S. warships carrying some 1,600 marines pulled out of Singapore early today for "undisclosed destinations." The eighth warship is expected to leave at any lime today. The ships left between 1.45 a.m.
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  • 175 1 MALAYA PUTS RUSSIA ON THE SPOT NO official comment could be obtained in London yesterday on reports from Kuala Lumpur that Malaya had ask 3d Russia, through the International Tin Council, to suspend tin exports. Mr. W. Fox, secretary of the council, said he could not comment. Usually well informed
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  • 48 1 THE Royal Navy cruiser Newcastle clocked at Portsmouth yesterday after four years of overseas service. The Newcastle was recommissioned at Singapore in May last year. On her return journey she called at Victoria, British Columbia, for the Royal Fleet review in honour of Princess Margaret. Reuter
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  • 38 1 Actor's ex-wife in court action over children The former wife of film actor Sterling Hayden yesterday asked for a court order in Los Angeles to restrain him from taking their four small children on a sea voyage.- Reuter
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  • 278 2 Delivery of U.S. atomic missiles to begin BRITAIN has completed her first rocket base and the first U.S. ballistic missile will arrive "shortly," the Defence Ministry announced in London yesterday. A statement from the Defence Ministry said that the 'first Royal Air Force ballistic
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  • 175 2 E 4 GRADUATE of Ihe \i\ I'niversity of Malaya who obtained the Master of Arts degree in political r: science only two months E ago at the University of British Columbia, Canada, 5 was too shy to remove his sun-classes for a
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  • 35 2 Sir Maurice Bowra. former vice-chancellor of Oxford University, said in Oxford last night that girl undergraduates had greatly improved In look.s while the boys had vastly improved in manners.- Keuter
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  • 48 2 Group Captain Peter Townsend, due to .start his second round the world trip today, has been "grounded" by bad weather. Instead of flying to Belgrade as planned, the Group Captain and his party were leaving Brussels for Belgrade by train last night. Reuter
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  • 105 2 THE FIRST radio telephone call from an airliner to a private number was made from a plane of Israel's El Al line, last Friday, it was announced in Zurich yesterday. The call was made from a Britannia. It began while the aircraft
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  • 157 2 U.S. TEST OF A-WARHEADS FOR MISSILES SUCCESSFUL' rrillS I nited State* j I yesterday announc- ed successful rumple- tion of tests witb nuclea r warhead mis- lile« at Johnston Island in the Pacific, The Atomic Energy I unnnission and the Defence Department said the tests —on j Ans. 1 and
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  • 59 2 A conference of oank workers' trade unions yesterday asked the Indonesian Government to liquidate all Dutch banks in Indonesia before the end of the year. Antara news agency said. The conference suggested that the Indonesian National Bank take over from the Dutch banks.
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  • 104 2 QCEAN linen tooted a welcome, flreboats sent up towering sprays and thousands of onlookers cheered and waved as the nuclear submarine Nautilu.s slowly cruised along six miles of Manhattan waterfront on her triumphant homecoming to New York yesterday. The Nautilus arrived with two world records
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  • 172 2 U.S. TO BUILD THE ROTODYNE BUT IT'S NO SELL-OUT BRITAIN- ROTODYNE airliner which can be used as a conventional plane or aa a helicopteris to be manufactured in the United States, it was announced in London yesterday. Mr. Robert L Lickley. technical director of the Fairey Aviation Company, the Rotodyne's
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  • 363 2 U.S. Govt. is on trial Supreme Court to meet rriiE United States Supreme Court announced 1 in Washington yesterday, that it would meet In extraordinary session on Thursday tv con sider the integration case at Little Rock's Central High School. The court will then take up the application of the
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  • 125 2 SEVERAL Negroes were attacked in London with knives and iron bars by a gang of English youths who went hunting for coloured men over the weekend, police officers testified in court yesterday. Nine youths, aged 17 to 20, were charged with maliciously wounding one
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  • 43 2 The Girl Rosemurie. German Him which arou ed controversy in Western (< > many, was shown at tnj Venice film festival la* night despite a P»< from Bonn. The festival organise^ jected attempts by the German Government have it withdrawn. Reuter
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  • 92 3 SHE CHRISTENS FRIGATE WITH A COCONUT I Will new anti-sub- gj 1 marine frigate Kirpan, built for the i I Indian Navy, slides I down the slipway, if I above, after being i I launched from Alex. Pander ander Stephens yards at Glasgow, ML Instead of a bottle of g
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  • 296 3 E X v R m P °l! Ce las^ niBht P^rolltd the mile-long street in A report is being drawn up for the Home Office on the fray that sent six people to hospital with stab wounds. Xt A consult ative committee of
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  • 106 3 FRIENDS: TWO QUEEN-RULED KINGDOMS A NEW treajy of friendship between Britain and the volcanic 150-island kingdom of Tonga in the Southwestern Pacific was signed yesterday at Nukualofa, the capital of Tonga. G&Oil wisiti>s Queen Elizabeth sent a message of good wishes to Queen Salote of Tonga and her people which
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  • 78 3 m The belle on the sea- x shore is 17 -year-old i Miss Sonia Kilganon, M §j who is an entrant for 5 g the "Civil Service J Queen" contest organ- 1 tsed by the Singapore Civil Service Associa- tion. a The contest will
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  • 35 3 Mr. William Watt, whose wife, daughter and sister-in-law were shot dead in their beds at home two years ago by mass murderer Peter Manuel announced his engagement yesterday to Miss Lorna Crag.
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  • 70 3 INCREASED TELEGRAPH CHARGES SUGGESTED AN INCREASE In charges for inland telegrams, higher press rates and luxurious greetings telegrams are suggested in a report on Britain's inland telegraph service published in London yesterday. The report, drawn up by an independent committee appointed by the Postmaster General, said the service lost U3.400.000
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  • 88 3 'St or kg rams' soon Inland press telegrams, now charged at 20 per cent of the normal rate by day and 15 per cent at night, should cost 50 per cent of the normal rate, the report recommended. The committee advised the post office to attract more customers with special
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  • 91 3 A TRAIN carrying holiday makers and their cars from Glasgow crashed into a stationary electric train in Eastbourne, Sussex, yesterday killing five people and injuring 31. Most of the casualties were In the electric train which was filled with office workers who travel the
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  • 145 3 TRIED TO DROWN HIS FATHER CHARGE A 32- YEAR -OLD farmer, Thomas Redgato, was said in court in Nottingham yesterday to have deliberately driven his motor van into a 15-foot-deep reservoir in an attempt to drown his father who was a passenger. The prosecution said that the prisoner was driving
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  • 55 3 THE executive of the International Union of Socialist Youth has called for the withdrawal of Russian troops from central Europe and the creation of a European neutral zone. The executive, representing the union's half million members in 25 countries, including Britain, concluded a three-day session
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  • The Singapore Free Press Tuesday, Aug 26, 1958.
    • 326 4 RE V E RBER ATING through the Formosa Strait is a loud echo of the Lebanon affair. It was clear that communism's high priest Khrushchev would do something to retrieve the loss of face resulting from his climbdown when confronted with the British backed American
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  • 362 4  - 16 ru es in the art of staying alive DONALD WISE by I IF YOU LIVED IN I CYPRUS I TODAY.. 1 DRITONS in Cyprus have been £iven an official leaflet telling them in 16 lessons how to 6tay alive. Civilians and soldiers, it says, are terrorist targets. The stay-alive
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  • 642 4  -  TREVOR EVANS says But they still have vast powers A TRADE union gels the Reds it deserves. No one is to blame more than the trade unionists themselves. If only one in seven of them bothered to take part in union elections in Britain, the Reds
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  • 122 4  -  Beachcomber UP the gastronomes! By St. Dcclan. I am moved to the marrow by the pronunciamento of one whom I take to be as hairy as tin people of Tlermas. He says, bless his burgeoning intelligence, that "chemistry is coming into Its own in the kitchens." And
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  • 292 5 Five cured lepers will start life again as farmers REHABILITATION PLAN BY SPORE APEX CLUB rrHE first phase in Uie Apex Club's plan to rehabilitate cured leorosv I patientl in Singapore will soon be launched when about five patients are settled as farmers on land stretching from Jalan Kayu to
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    54 5 Prince Siharath Phasouk. 21-year-old nephew of the Kins of Laos, shakes hands with the Penang Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee, at the Coronation Camp, Penang. The Laotian Prince is among 45 delegates from five Asian countries attending the 10-day Far East Regional Wood Rarfp* Coarse which will end next
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  • 208 5 PREPARATIONS for the Singapore Constitution Fair to be held at the former Kallang Airport from January 24 to February 24 are now in full swing. Labourers from the P.W.D. c clearing the ground and cutting the grass. Mr. K. M.
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  • 79 5 U lss J met Lim, 35- lT year-old matron j2J s t Andrew's ">n Hospital in »n?apore, smiles hap- lls ojj her arrival H'• »«»ry. London. X *VS and llncf la in Britain for .PubHeaHoß next T; l her hook 'l! for Silver".
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  • 7 5 Went 1 yesterday. Reuter
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  • 37 5 The United States atomic i jubmarine Skate arrived at I 3slo yesterday for a two- i day visit during which Kia^ Olav, Norway's ".sailor kins" h;i.s bt'^n Invited tn <*o aboard. Reuter
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  • 158 5 ALL the 18 City Council markets in Singapore are to be supplied with machines for slaughtering and plucking poultry on the spot In tne near Tutu re. At present only five main markets will have these units installed some time this
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  • 37 5 Dr. Wernher yon Braun. America's top rocket expert attending the International Astronautical Congress In Amsterdam, has been taken i ill, Mr. G Haley, president of the International Astroi nautical Federation, said last night.- Reuter
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    • 66 6 IKIMIISI \i:\V TAN 1 1 IN VUOKIM.! j Oasis tastes fresh while you smoke fresh after smoking too. That's why smokers who know. I now smoke the big "O" ifiimtfarlurra' b§ tJqqrH A Wifera Tobacco Cn. V \-l -4 \y M I'.S.A., the makers of wmtmmmmmmmmmm—Z!* HIST I RFIELI) tni
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    • 264 6 BB BB BB BB Bl Bl B1 B1 Bi Bi Bi Bi I 'fll 'SI B^ i*^JJ 'flU 1 mm Wm- wm 9 JKVF lIAUKI l»? Sydney Jordan Jeff loses no nwc mam** fo* rye I I tvavc maoon SE J!£? BV# 1 I SbS^tiSlv^b^V^' pSa^SeaS 1 r 1 TK*T
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    • 457 6 BOKN today, you have a keen t mind. You are always ready to J experiment with your lite and wi try anything once! j Since you are a natural leach r you !> will find giving orders comes to naturally. You are a good exec tive and know how to
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  • Hound the World Market Prices
    • 185 7 LONDON. Aug. ij. Previou> lodu* ,•1 iu'.i I s< |{SS c r I poi^ 4H| 2 buyers 24 bujei> no .sellers no sellers Sept 23 r s buyers 24 buyers 23. A sellers L' 4 tellers IL'BBCI So KSS Spol 2;j bu y er 24 buyers 28Ta
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    • 106 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 85. Previous Todaj UN Strait* Spot 95. (X) nom. 94.87 nom. 1 1\ futures Straits Contract Se»< 94.25 buyers 94.25 buyers 95.50 sellers Ovi 94 25 buyers 94.25 buyers AVI n 95.50 sellers I(|N *"'< 1 SALES: Nil RI'BBEH 1 mures Sept. 28.80 paid
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    • 35 7 I NEW YORK. Aug. >.i. Previous Today 1 Illst1 llstI aU 508.28 508.28 a hoa s 132.96 132.85 »um,,tlc Bonds K 8.44 88 41 78.03 77.97 locks omposiU Averages 174.60 174. 54
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    • 60 7 alabar spot 26%, awaiting release 26 afloat* 26' i to 264 second half Augiust shipment 26 Lamix)n R spot 26*;. awaiting- re>e«s« 26!4, afloats 26»i to 26';. second ball August shipment 28 Sarawak unquoted. Muntok white spot and awaiting release 41. a floats 40 to 39. and second
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    • 106 7 *nove vnces quoted in U.S. certs per Ib <( '''H\ Philippines c.i.f. 1.R., jwth huropean ports delivered i ftplfr l ppr lon t0 «> Auj./Sept. IKY c.l.f. C.K./North f"rop*an porU delivered wefch pei lon« ton Aar./Sept. MM ix .1' OIL crude StmiU >f European ports In
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  • 43 7 Stephanie, a rhinoceros at Bristol Zoological Gardens, has become the mother of the first African rhinoceros to be born In Britain, it was announced yesterday. Mother and junior he weighs 501b. flr<a m air in or crnnri Drosrress. Reuter
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  • 162 7 London stock marJ«Jj were less buoyant lls*9 but there was no rtal reaction in price*. to the industrial SB El ''/ally closed with a rl a PP^arance. ''n feature was th« 1 dullness of gill ecurltlea which lo i [round after the an ofadlpercen Issue by
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  • 477 7 200,000 Red troops at invasion sites STRONG AIR FORCE POISED OPPOSITE FORMOSA ftOMMITNIST CHINA has concentrated an army of 200,000 men near the possible launching sites of an invasion of the Quemoy islands, according to Nationalist Chinese Intelligence reports received in Washington. This is four times the strength of the
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  • 78 7 THE Far East Air Force in Singapore will open R.A.F. Seletar to the public for the first time on Sept. 20 to celebrate the Battle of Britain in 1940. Seletar station will be "at home" to the public from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. A special
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  • 24 7 Mr. Andrei Gromyko. the Soviet Foreign Minister arrived bark In Moscow yesterday from New York. th.B Bovlet News Agency Tass reported. Renter.
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  • 82 7 picture. 1 Sonny Low aged 18. j I and his 14-year-old sister Betty, with their 1 trophies after winning j I the titles of King and i I Queen of the Cha- Cha-Cha and Rock j n' Roll in the finals of
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    • 43 7 SINGAPORE [HIGH TIDES i TODAY: 8.58 p.m. i TOMORROW: 10.25 a.m. and 9.42 p.m. j THURSDAY: 10.55 a.m. and 10.20 p.m. FRIDAY: 11,20 a.m. and 10.57 p.m. SATURDAY: 11.45 a.m. and 1133 p.m. SUNDAY: 12.07 p.m. i MONDAY: 0.08 a.m. and 12.32 p.m.
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    • 93 7 Today's radio programme 1.15 p.m. Radio Music Hull 1.30 Time Signal and New* 1.45 Radio Music Hall again 2.00 Close Down. 5.00 Mu.-i from the Ballet; 5.:j0 Fiesta 8.00 Happy Anniversary, preset) te by Zainal Alam; 6.48 Light On: 6.53 Announcements am Singapore Share Market Report 7.00 Time SiKnal and
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  • 195 8 WHILE Singapore traffic continues to crawl at a snail's pace during its daily rush hour jams and bottle-necks, Auckland in New Zealand is well on the way to solving it's parking problems. One large trading company there has devoted much time and energy in trying to
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  • 253 8 THAT LOVERS STOPPED Till No 26 BUS LOVERS* tiff stop* ped a bus The conductress and the driver the man she hopes to marry and the passengers left it standing at the roadside. It happened at Kay Street, a hamlet on the North Kent main coast road as the Maidstone
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  • 48 8 Helping himself to rofl at headquarters, NortherM newly appointed ncnrnlflß General Sir Douglas I'nl I He was visiting tlu- 1)1 the cafeteria sclt'-st-rvii-eB there. 8 I Armed with a ti ay I meal from a choice of <H S dishes, five vegetables andl Reuter picture.
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  • THE PAPER WITHIN A PAPER Eve
    • 10 1 THE PAPER WITHIN A PAPER Eve Tuesday, August 26, 1958.
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    • 26 1 Who should Keep a wife's wages? Wives and husbands, spinsfers, bachelors.., they all disagree What do you think? Write to Eve and air your own views
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    • 1189 1 npHE atomic age is with vs the 1 age of nuclear energy, earth satellites and, soon perhaps, travel to the moon. But to the working housewife in Singapore, as elsewhere, the wonders of the new world mean little, especially when age-old problems still remain.
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    • 203 1 WHY ARE SINGAPORE MEN SO BADLY DRESSED? rE women of Singapore are becoming more fashion conscious. Everywhere, you can meet them in chic frocks, sleek coiffures or smart suits, poised and beautifully groomed. Their make-up is Impeccably applied, their accessories well chosen for the time and occasion. But glancs at
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    • 112 2 WHY NOT GO IN PICNICKING STYLISH COMFORT? Going camping? Do it in style; take your furniture with you. This is not as silly as it may sound if you own a suitcase-table. The suitcase table seen in the Free Press pictures on the right is a sturdy table-and-seat combination with
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    • 223 2 Talent and glamour need not go together MANY GIRLS who regard themselves as "ghastly dim" typists or stenographers think that only talented people hold glamorous and interesting jobs such as air stewardesses, and radio, stage or television artists. But why? How do you know that you are a person of
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    • 296 2 FAMILIES all over the world are re-dis-covering the special companionship ot an early-morning gathering around the breakfast table. Skimpy breakfasts are out of date. It is energy you need for extra bounce to carry you through the working hours until lunch time. Oatmeal will give you this
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    • 62 2 WHERE TO BUY Statuette ot Gv. J porcelain hor lantern, carved I Shanghai Arts Co., 402, Orchard i h suitcase-table. m Furniture Co I I Orchard Road Thai silk stoles. coats, Thai Oral I Patrick's Sup< Shopping Gallrr> chard Road; Lud ;M horn and silver B wine decanter. '\m Crafts,
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    • 529 2 A TREASURE ANTIQUES from OLD CHINA HEST OF J7YK has found a little shop in Orchard Road that is a veritable heaven for those who love Chinese antiques. There you will find many old treasures that were brought out from the mainland by fleeing refugees. A statuette of Gwan Yin,
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      • 177 2 7ftQ p&fect ktfcAeh uti&heif I FOOD MIXER r-r^-a Saves hours of work and mokes \-^^T^ '~~1 prcporing meals a pleasure. It -'™™v''^' l >l^B^^ creams, mashes whips, beaii, i- blends, mixes, minces ond ll'**' luices. Twenty different j^s \jk A] speed settings. Two mix- "^ij^^^v-^^-^v ing bowls supplied of tT~^AT\^^L\.
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    • 175 3 ■he food mixer is Hp^ 1 and can be ■ov,-; easily from ■sUi:.! for use any■*v in the kitchen. I ringer-tip ,B r °l lovern.i e ig speed. In wt} are twenty Pf speed BttI E DOd mixei W p s equipped with IT 0
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    • 154 3 BUY A BEAN AND BE LUCKY When things go wrong And life has lost Us sheen; When all one's thoughts are on The might have been, One's luck can turn With future all serene, If one can find and keep The mystic lucky bean\ yOUR wallet will never be empty
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    • 199 3 Punnets are Siegels' pride and joy Visaing Singapore last week were two of Germany's better known puppeteers, Adelheid and Harro Siegel. Twenty three years ago, the Siegels, then newly married, began making puppets as a hobby. Slowly they perfected cast after cast of rharartf>r<; frnm \a/pll- known German fairy tales.
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    • 634 4 KEEP ON ROAD TO BEAUTY WHILE YOU WAIT lUBfT because you iff going to have a baby it is no reason that you tnu&l look drab and unsightly. With a little effort, n essy to took pretty while you wait. Nature contributes handsomely at this time by making the skiu
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      56 5 I hould hLI I 1 i rating were runrley A year h a and to bi' n together ver f<^r to get Shirley. be a year or marriage te D not know be a duslich 4 back to Bd said "I was but I reknow whethe sack. I in
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      35 5 in thi i ookhouse d District, is the j [>.)>. minding. Lieut, j nk» s^ to study bcentlj introduced i!» himself to his courses two fish am t;< s of sweets, i
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    • 172 5 Memory man brings order to rush hour chaos A man who keeps 1 a railway timetable in his head changed i London's crash con- fused rush hour I scramble the other day into a "keep- them moving" 1 miracle. 1 He is grey-haird 1 58-year-old Albert I Lewis, a taxi-driver
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    • 73 5 The norMs first electric irrist mile}! and Iti pair, „rrcr—u 1L! VOlt battery smaller than a uaistcout button arc shown here by Eli <ii>< }tfi Bowell The natch. <i man's wrist model hi noid, Is American designed and has been on view at
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    • 61 6 'IMIE influential Seoul newspaper Yunhap praised the United States for reaffirming its backing of the Nationalist Chinese during the current tension in the Formosa Strait. Such action, the paper said, "not only boosts the morale of the Free Chinese Government but also ueepens the trust
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      37 6 Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Felixoerio Serrano (right) and U.S. Ambassa- I dor Charles Bonlen seen after their conference in Manila on the Middle East situation. Mr. Serrano also conferred with British Ambassador George Lisle Clutton.— lLP.l. picture.
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    • 78 6 rpHE giant US$55 million 1 Hachiro lagoon re Clamation project, which leans heavily on thy Netherlands lor technical help, has been launched at Akita City. The basic plans for thy project were made by Dutch engineers who carried out the land reclamation projects In the Zuider
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    • 39 6 INDONESIAN Army Chief of-Staff Abdul Harl^ Nasution has invited his Philippines opposite number. Lieutenant Genera? ArHleno, to visit the Republic. The Jakarta Antara News Agency said General Arellano might visit Indonesia In September. Reuter
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    • 42 6 Captain Henry Kerby, Briti.sh Conservative M.P. said in Taipeh that the Nationalist defended Quemoy and Matsu i.slands In the Formsoa Strait are "Invincible." He made the remark a Met 1 tOUlinp both thp island groups. Reuter U.P.I.
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    • 242 6 PEKING BACKS MR. K. IN SAVAGE NEW ANTI-TITO ATTACKS rpHE New York Times said in an editorial that 'what looks suspicious- ly like a well-co-ordinated anti-Yugoslav propaganda offensive has broken out this past week or so in Moscow, Peking and Tirana/ It added: "The accusations being levelled against TKo's regime
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    • 68 6 'China still has rebels' CUIAIRMAN Mao Tse- tuns addressed the annual meeting of Ministry of Public Se- curity at the conclusion of a six-week confer- j ence in Peking. The Peking People's Daily said the meeting concluded that, al- though "counter- re vo- lutionary forces In China have been fur-
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    • 39 6 Two members of the Japan ese Himalayan reconnaLv sance team, leader Ichiro Kanesaka and Shojlro Ishtzaka, have arrived In Calcutta en route to Ne pal. They will exploit routes to the un climbed Himal Chuli Peak (26.000 ft.'. U.P.I.
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    • 23 6 A delegation of Indonesia! j public servants. Including I two police commissioner* is now on a three -wee I visit in Britain. Reuter
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    • 28 6 Western military experts I Tokyo estimate that <i- pite the Communist <'" nesc troop withdrawal.-B into Manchuria, botwrrnp 120,000 and 150.000 CW I nese troops —mam North Korea. U.P.I.
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    • 31 6 a Nationalist Chinese I tory professor, Dr < I Ching-ho, will go to SOU\ Vietnam this month [°["m one-year series of if'- I at Saigon Vnlvervfy < the history of South-l Asia. U.P.I.
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    • 37 6 U.P.I. Before leaving New Delhi for Peking, Cambodia's Premier Norodom Sihanouk told newsmen he had explained his country's policy and exact position to India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, but declined to say what Mr. Nehru'a advice had been.
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    • 158 6 STEVEDORES of Yokohama finally agreed to unload ten Swiss-made Orelikon guided missiles from the Arlma Maru after the Japanese Defence Board gave a written asAurance that Japanese defence forre.s would not be arnird with nuclear vvoapon.s. The stevedores had refused to unload tlio
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    • 363 6 Aid to Pak. now over US 700 mil. TOTAL American economic aid to Paki x exclusive of military commitments to US*7Ol million, Mr James S. Kij u ts istan director of the International Co i tion Administration (X A) has tnnouncid^ Karachi. (1 According to I.C.A. figures US$55 million for
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    • 36 6 k Nationalist Chinese Foreign Minister lluanx Shao-ku conferred in Taipeh with the diplomatic envoys from South Korea and South Viet The Thai Airways Company will cut its Hong KongTaipeh -Tokyo service h> from September 1. Reuter
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    • 215 7 PEKING BIRTH CONTROL FAILURE AMMUNIST China's tie mothers are heir share in ffl ilands "Great ward" progmme, but there's l e doubt that Pek- atirely pleased jjjj ;r contribuon. n the last year S: they have added 000 000 babies to China's ifeady burdensome popution. yi population now where between
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    • 20 7 The Jakarta Government s lifted a five-month-old q or. the distribution of r:e magazine in Indo- U.P.I.
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      49 7 imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiii A girl member of Nationalist China's Youth Combat Training Corps is seen (on right) during her glider course at a airfield in Formosa. About 1,000 boys and girls, including overseas Chinese Youths from South-East Asian countries, Korea and Japan, are undergoing extensive military training in Formosa.— U.P.I. picture.
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    • 135 8  -  SUNNY GIAM by ■•■■••■Illlllllllll HINTS FROM AN EXPERT yH!S week our guest is Mr. Lim Su v P o h the programme chairman of the Phr graphic Society of Singapore. Siew Poh ha been made a f Asso- ciate of the R oya j Photographic ciety of
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    • 491 8  - LEARN TO THINK IN LIGHT AND SHADOW LIM SIEW POH A.R.P.S. ff f/ IT IS my belief that with patience and hard work anybody persistent enough can learn how to take good pictures. Photography to m? Is a hobby both enriching and creative. Since taking it up I have learned
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    • 158 8 WHY is a short -stop bath needed when you are developing films or prints?" That was a question I had tossed at me the other day. The answer, I think, deserves publication. So here goes. When yon are processing cither films or prints your developer
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    • 274 8 AS CHRISTMAS ap proachea and you begin to get ready for it. plan too lor the pictures you Will want to take dun:," the holidays. Make them in colour th. y C to help capture th< joy and brightness which i tde the
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    • 371 9 a WORD THAT BOXES ALL EARS I THE INNOCENT AM[SSADORS. By Philip yjfe (Frederick Mul- lift) ir. TiJILIP WYLIE ioac< discourteous i and joyously slapec j \\\< American Mom j the face with a oO k called Generaion oi Vipers. Now Mr. Wylie has a cv word with which c
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    • 479 9 AKU-AKU, The Secret of Easter IslciJid, by Thor Heyerdahl {Allen and UnwiJi, 215.) "/\NE has always a good deal to think about," writes Thor Heyerdahl, "when one is taking one's family to the country. There is just as much to remember when, in addition
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    • 403 9 HAS ISRAEL ALTERED THE JEWS? Reviews of the books By LORD LAMBTON THE FIRST TEN YEARS. By Walter Eytan. (Weidenfeld and Nicolsan, 215.) rE publishers of this book about th* first ten years of Israel inform us that the author "is uniquely qualified to give a first-hand account of Israel's
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    • 497 9  - Horrors of the day when the seas ran dry RICHARD LISTER IT ALL STARTED WITH A SUPER-BOMB By THE TIDE WENT OUT. By Charles Eric Maine. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) HPHIS is a specimen of science x fiction by one of its more serious exponents. This means that it
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    • 330 9  -  Bf Roger 1 v -ood a nfl 22S it is tough 2 i( and it is as >ntl,.s.s U i Wand takei the a small Italy, and I ff thero i n all overcrowdedt W-t.t.on ,r,d cornhaMtaatfl oi trfl nibjr.t tO the law;
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    • 201 10 I \!<>T only is l<)-\tai-ultl Brian Isaac a champion boxer, but a champion marksman as well. Brian, who joined the Singapore Infantry Regimeni in April did ITOII >>> acorfni the Wfhe«l points in a shooting competition At the passim out parade h«» vas presented with
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    • 231 10 A KIWI shield made from the fines! rimu timber of New Zealand, will be presented i<> the winners of the Malayan grass track cycling championship between Singapore and Malaya at Merdeka Stadium, Iviiala Lumpur, on Sunday. It Ls part, of the sports programme for
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    • 97 10 THE progress of lan Craig, j down with a minor attack of hepatitis (inflam. j tnatioii ot the liver) is being j closely watched by cricket officials in all Australian i states. There is speculation as to I what will happen regarding the Australian XI
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    • 188 10 AUSTRALIAN tennis officials described as "amazing" and "ridiculous" the abuse by American spectators aimed against Australian stars Ashley Cooper an Neale Fraser. Spectators at Brookline. Massachusetts called Cooper and Fraser "criminals," i and "cry babies" and told them to "get out of the country" after
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    • 193 10 NS.W.will charge for swim stars THE New South Wales Amateur Swimming; Association has planned to take 20 per cent of the profits at carnivals where swimmers under its control appear. It has notified all Australian States that it will not permit New South Wales swim, mers to appear at carnivals
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    • 104 10 rjiHE International Chess Federation has voted the A title of Grand Master to Frederik Olafsson of Iceland. The Federation, meeting in congress In Yugoslavia also named Istvan Bllek and Lajos Portls of Hungary and Evgeny Vasyukov of the Soviet Union as International Masters. Yugoslavia. Iceland and
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      14 10 Brian Isaac receives his cup for being "champion marksman" from 1.1. ('oion>-'l W. Stephenson.
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    • 171 10 Nine Australian swimmers are due here today VINE Australian swimmers are due in Singapore at 6.35 p.m. today. All women, they will perform for local fans at the Singapore Swimming Club. The team, under the management of Mrs. May Williams, are returning to Australia after competing at the Empire Games
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    • 127 10 Herb Elliott first home in Stockholm AUSTRALIA'S Herb A Elliott, the world's fastest miler, ran the 1,500 metres in 3min 41.7 sec at an athletic meeting in Stockholm yesterday. World record Is 3min 33.1 sec, held by Stanislav Jungwirth of Czechoslovakia. The Australian's lime was two tenths of a second
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    • 29 10 Willie Vaughan <! U.S. middleweight, scored a convincing 12-round OJf' sion over Australian n weight champion Clr wart (*****1b.) at Sydney Stadium last niglil U.P.I.
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    • 17 10 Bangkok's Thorn; University basketball boat a touring Bin students team 67-44 day.- Reuter
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    • Page 10 Miscellaneous
      • 240 10 Ti ■■5 I i< I IZ~~H* I Ia 1 1 IBIII■ i r* I I CLUEB ACROS3 10. Go wrong with an alter--2 BUCh n bit of comfort from native (5). n little food (5) 11. Seat of authority (8), 6 Touched the hut (4K 13. Was the rude man
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    • 1159 11  - IRISH WIT THE BEST ON TRACK AT BUKIT TIMAH ALLAN LEWIS b JRISH WIT (Mitchell), working on the outside of Metrostar (Jones), showed tons of improvement this morning at Hukit Timah when running three in 37 1/5 wide out. I thought this was the best effort of the morning— though
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    • 329 11 Bedser strikes for Surrey IKX BEDSER 40--m ar-old pace )W le r struck an nnrtiuM blow for Sury the English unty Ticket chainonship when he jstled out six Worstershire batsmen r 25 v>n\s at Wors ter yesterday, Worcester were all out B'' Though they .showed r e fight in their
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      91 11 John Devitt of Australia (centre) holds a trophy after winning in the 100-metre freestyle while his countryman Gary Chapman (right) and Yasuhiko Nakatani oi Japan offer their congratulations. Devitt captured the 100 -metre freestyle trophy in the second day of the Japan Swimming Championships, clocking s;>.(»sec. to break
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    • 144 11 "MALAYAN athletes have made more progress iTI than any others in South-East Asia. Mr. David Dichter, American athletic coach, said this yesterday in Bangkok. He said that Siam ranked next best among the six South-East Asian countries in progress made in training athletes. Mr. Dichter helped
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    • 89 11 BRITISH SOCCER RESULTS BRITISH league soccer matches last night resulted: LEAGUE ONE Blackburn R. 5 Leicester 0 Blackpool < Newcastle I. o \ston Villa 3 Portsmouth 2 West Ham 2 Wolves i> LEAGIF TWO Sheffield V. 0 M'broush 1 LEAGUE THREE Queens Park i Tranmere i Rochdale 0 IMymo/th 2
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    • 34 11 British Rugby League matches last night resulted Ilucklersfield 21 Bramlcy 7; Hull 34 Bat ley 5; Leeds 13 Wakelield Trinity 33; St. Helens i 5 Warrlngton 7. Whatehavrn 24 Wißan 12 Reuter
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    • 19 11 touring unitrd State: women's hockey team beat Albany 2-1 in Graham t<»wn." Cape Province re terday Reuter
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    • 99 11 Ci LOSING DATE of J the Subscribers List for the Singapore Turf Club'f yearlinß scheme will be Monday, September 1. Applications received after that date will not he accepted. The 38 horses that have been purchased under the scheme are being shipped from Sydney In the
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    • 270 12 Decision on sale depends upon Australian stand I)KITAIN was reported by usually reliable; sources in London yesterday to be delaying j a decision on whether to allow the sale of mill- tary equipment to Indonesia until after talks with Mr. Richard Casey, Australian External
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    • 46 12 Greenland's local government announced yesterday that it will claim a 12-mile fishing limit if Iceland and t'ne Faroe Islands introduce their proposed 12-mile Limit. An official recommendation is now being drafted and will be submitted to the I Danish Government. Reuter
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    • 97 12 ]l| R. FATIN ZORLU, Tur- j kish Foreign Minister, j said in Istanbul yesterday that Turkey supported the new British plan for Cyprus. After receiving the Bri- tish Ambassador, Sir I James Bowker to inform him of the Turkish reply to the plan,
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    • 19 12 Denmark's prime minister Mr. Hans Christian Hansen, arrived in Belgrade yesterday for a six-day official visit. Reuter
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    • 153 12 THE 26-year-old father of five children th e other day gave away his two-month-old baby to the wife of his boss. The Father is Ron Hiskey of Effing Essex. His I wife died two months ago, shortly after the birth I I of
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    • 32 12 Michael Lincoln, aged 75, fell asleep while sv/imming in apu blic bath and was drowned, an inquest in London decided yesterday. The verdict: Accidental death Reuter
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    • 343 12 BRITAIN'S Conservative Government is headed for a bitter new battle over pay boost claims for more than 10,000.000 workers The signal for the flght was given by a controversial wag<s-and-prices report made public yesterday by a committee known generally as Britain's "three econo
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    • 181 12 Doctor's call to 1,OOO women twin, to t: rt gg control methods. Dr. Beric Wright, medica secretary of the Counci for the Investigation n Fertility contr, ww?h I orgamsino the tests saU more than 50 wives ready were taking part h the experiment. He said he was "desperate 1 to
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