New Nation, 5 October 1973

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  • 19 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, October 5, 1973 No. 838 Price 15 cents NE^^nON SINGAPORE FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 5, 1973
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  • 632 1 Lon Nol orders all males between 18 and 25 to report for military service Reuter Phnom Penh, Friday An urgent conscription call has gone out to young Cambodians, as com-munist-led insurgent forces built up pressure around Phnom Penh. President Lon Nol, in a radio broadcast to
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  • 166 1 "Myself won me $100," little Peggy C h u a n exclaimed happily yesterday. And five-year-old Peggy was grammatically correct too. For her painting, called Myself, won the first prize in the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) sponsored art competition for children. Peggy had no
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  • 29 1 Colombo, Friday—The Sri Lanka government approved emergency measures yesterday permitting officers to confiscate hoarded rice flour and sugar. In an attempt to alleviate the country's food crisis.
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  • 18 1 Damascus. Friday. Syria has decided to resume diplomatic relations with Jordan, Damascus Radio said yesterday.
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  • 377 1 Faster revenue growth The Government's revenue grew faster than the total expenditure, resulting in an overall surplus of $65 million in the fiscal year ending in March. This provided a slight contractionary effect which, however, may be reversed for the current fiscal year 1973/74,
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  • 146 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Nightclub and hotel owners may lose their $3000 deposits for entertainment licences if they allow their strip-artistes to bare too much. They have also been told that it could cost them their entertainment licences as well. This warning was sounded by the District Office
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  • 92 1 Reuter Hong Kong, Friday Chinese film actress Lily Ho (above) married local businessman George Chao at St. Joseph's Catholic Church here yesterday. Miss Ho, who works for the Shaw Organisation, wore a HK$4O,OOO ($20,000) wedding gown. Her four bridesmaids included former film actress
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  • 83 1 Twenty import and export firms have reported to the police that they were cheated by a textile company in Boat Quay of goods valued at $229,466. The firms told police that they delivered textiles valued at the sum on credit to the company between January to March this
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  • 50 1 Factory supervisor Low Hwa Seng, 27 was crushed to death by a pile of plywood at the Singapore Eldal Corporation Ltd In Jurong yesterday. Low, was found under the pile of wood which fell from a height of 12 feet. He was dead when the ambulance arrived.
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  • 37 1 Pretoria, Friday.— The Singapore registered freighter Neptune Sapphire, which lost its bow section in heavy seas off the South African coast in August, left East London yesterday under tow for repairs in Finland.
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  • 28 1 New York, Friday—A scheduled meeting between Singapore's Foreign Minister Mr. S. Rajaratnam and US Secretary of State Dr. Henry klssinger was postponed yesterday until today.
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  • 300 1  -  By Bharathi Mohan Three women and a man abducted a 27-year-old seamstress and detained her for four hours in a van in a lonely spot off Jurong yesterday, police said today. The seamstress, Madam Wong Lang Hang, told police that three women and a man forced
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  • 55 1 New York, Friday An estimated U*****,000 ($805,000) worth of diamonds were reported stolen yesterday In two separate thefts occurring In the heart of Manhattan's diamond district. Thieves took diamonds worth an estimated U*****,000 ($575,000) from a processing company's safe and another US$lOO,OOO ($230,000) worth of polished dia monds
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  • 149 1 Prices were fairly firm on the Stock Exchange of Singapore for the first 45 minutes. Trading In South Joh or e Amalgamated and Mosbert shares resumed this morning. BUSINESS DONE: Mosbert (1) 1.50, (2) 1.55. (1) 1.60, (1) 1.65. (1) 1.70, (1) 1.71, (1) 1.73. Slme Darby
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  • 13 1 Police reported 119 accidents yesterday. Five were serious and one fatal.
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  • 342 1 S-E Asia, Far East the target By Sunny Wee Britain will soon be embarking on a vigorous trade promotion programme in South-East Asia and the Far East. The coming months will see visits by several British trade missions to promote their products. Among them
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  • 35 1 Buenos Aires. Friday— General Juan Peron won 61.85 per cent of the vote In Argentina's presidential elections on September 25 according to official figures issued here by the National Electoral College.
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  • 242 1  -  By Douglas Chan The Central Narcotics Bureau has uncovered the first "underground" drug store and smashed a gang believed to be responsible for peddling ganja and MX pills in Orchard Road, Bukit Timah, Kampung Bahru and Telok Blangah. Two youths and a 45-year-old man were arrested in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 537 2  -  Republic's flag flies on 659 ships By Sonny Yap Singapore's flag flew on 659 ships totalling 1,450,820. gross tons at the end of last year. This represented a 102 per cent increase over that of 1971. Ever since the open Registry of g.iips
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    • 302 2  -  By Wee Beng Huat A total of 2504 drivers were disqualified from driving and another 624 convicted for various traffic offences last year, according to the latest Registry of Vehicles annual report. A total of 74,339 driving tests were carried out at the two
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    • 55 2 The top 10 National Police Cadet Corps will meet for the final round of the drill competition tomorrow at the Police Academy, Thomson Road, at 9 a.m. The top 10 NPCC units, comprising five girl units and five boy units, will compete for the Kwan Sal
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    • 32 2 Metro Holdings, which is going public, will issue 3,771,000 $1 shares at a premium of $1.10 on October 17. The company Is reserving 565,000 shares for management and staff.
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    • 346 2  -  Making up for low-quality food By Teresa Ooi The Education Ministry will extend its milk -feeding scheme next year to include 30 more primary schools involving a total of some 50,000 school children. According to Mr. Ahmad Mattar, Parliamentary Secretary (Education), the scheme will
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    • 246 2 Big success at Changi Beach The Singapore Life Guard Corps plans to introduce more floats to ensure safer bathing for picnickers at the Republic's beaches. This follows the success of Its "C-Line Form ation" of floats put into operation at Changi Beach about two months
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    • 160 2 The Post Office Savings Bank has introduced a check-off system to lure more people to open accounts with itCalled the Gtoud Savings Scheme it Drovides for groups of employees to have their savings deducted from their monthly pay-packets The deposits will also be updated
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 71 2 Wsi& titbits f to go with youfdrmlp To complement your drinks at Grotto Bar, titbits with the compliments of the house are served every day between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Grotto Bar. .the cool, cosy, get away from-it all atmosphere will cushion off the rough and tumble of a
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 262 3 Reuter London, Friday Britain's butchers were advised yesterday to be prepared to get into the synthetic meat business and discard old beliefs that real, red, high-pric-ed meat was necessarily the best. One of the nation's top scientists told them that technological advances were
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    • 34 3 Paris, Friday. The Viet Cong delegation yesterday walked out of a conference here with Saigon delegates on a a political settlement in protest against alleged violations by Saigon of last January's ceasefire agreement.
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    • 337 3 Minister barred New York, Friday The UN General A s s e m bl y, in its strongest snub yet to South Africa, yesterday barred the Republic's Foreign Minister, Dr. Hilgard Muller, from addressing the world body. Dr. Muller, sat at the head of
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    • 214 3 Reuter Vienna, Friday. Austrian authorities said yesterday that Soviet Jews cc.uld continue to travel through Vienna provided Jewish organisations moved them to Israel quickly. A government spokesman said: "It is the affair of the people concerned" to move the emigrants out of Austria after they arrive here
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    • 279 3 Court ruling soon Reuter Washington, Friday. —Counsel for the Senate Watergate committee yesterday asked a judge to issue a court order for President Nixon to hand over tapes of Watergate conversations secretly recorded at the White House. But a lawyer for President Nixon, urging US district
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 210 3 [HBUEE Sole Agent:— Ruby Photo Co. Sdn. Bhd. n cf We return a roll of *GAF color Film FREE when you send color print film (any make) for developing and printing by TRI Color Lab The exposed roll must contain at least 50% prints. Only applies to 135 and 126.
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    • 289 3 Visit the PETER LAM Stall No. 59 DENMARK IN SINGAPORE EXHIBITION Conference Hall Shenton Way September 29 to October 7, 1973 Daily: 11.00 am to 9.00 pm f THANK YOU PETER LAM' Compliments ail round. We must have the most apprec»at «ve customers Perhaps it's because we are still very
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 638 3 CINEMA POSER KWANG SIA/NEW NATION CONTEST Last Monday's poser showed a scene from They Call Me Trinity. The first 10 correct entries opened by the Editor yesterday evening were from: Miss Lum Wai Lui (clerk), of 12P Jalan Membina Bar at; David Tan Eng Huat (student), of 998 Jalan Satu;
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  • IN PERSON
    • 457 4  -  IN PERSON Conducted by Jennifer Schoon IT TAKES only two people to make this a better world says Australia's Miss International Quest MISS SOLVEIG LARSEN. Speaking at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting yesterday at Mandarin Hotel, she said: "If these two people
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    • 378 4 Canine Clinic by PG Dear PG, My cocker spaniel has many ticks on its body. I have used tick powder, tick collar, tickwash and many other shampoos. But they all failed to destroy the ticks. What do you think I should do to get rid of the
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • OPINION
    • 380 6 While most parts of the world have profitably used the years for physical and economic reconstruction, many countries in South-East Asia have wasted the last three decades in intraregional conflicts and civil wars. But are there indications that the seventies will bring South-East Asian countries closer
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 59 6 Slowly but surely, the Image of our girls Is changing. To prove my point I quote the following exchange which was overheard at a bus stop. Male: "Where are you going?" Female: "For night classes.'' Male: "I see, you're taking up sewing." Female: "No." Male: "Cooking class
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      • 112 6 A friend Just back from Hong Kong, returned with this story of the Chinese film director Lung Kang, whose production The Call Girls won a Merlion award at the recent Asian Film Festival. The director was going down a hotel in a lift. Standing next to him was
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    • 1012 6  -  For a lone time now, the Chinese who hre outside China, Indudinr thorn residing tn SoothEast Asia, hare been known as the "hua ehiao" or "overseas Chinese." The term mifht have been appropriate in the past when the Chinese emigrants had no plans for permanent
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    • Letters
      • 419 6  -  JAMES SOIL The number of vehicular accidents and deaths resulting therefrom is alarmingly on the Increase. The New Nation reports the number of such accidents daily in a little box in the front page of the newspaper. The dally average is 90 accidents and two fatalities. The
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      • 188 6  -  CHAN CHENG HAI Please refer to the following letters and articles c on c e r nlng walkathons organised by schools. Column entitled Walkathons Getting Out of Hand by Pang Cheng Lian <NN. 24.8.73). Letter entitled Walking for Money by Citizen <NN, 7.9.73). Editorial entitled Raising Funds for
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      • 134 6  -  IVY GOH NAIR I refer to the letter from Noise Pollution (NN. 10.9.73) complaining about the volume of the television set at Silat Avenue Community Centre. We have conducted an investigation into the matter and have not been able to find the complainant. The families living nearest to
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      • 75 6  -  TAN SENG HUAT The picture captioned Cleanliness Lesson for Hawkers In page two of New Nation (19.9.71) showed a hawker inspector handing out pamphlets to hawkers at Empress Place. Will the relevant authorities please look at the hair of this inspector and that of the two hawkers
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    • 441 6  -  By William J. Coughlin Los Angeles Times Amid fears of new Outbreak of fighting: in Lebanon this fall, the growing practice of Lebanese political parties maintaining their own armed militia units has become a subject of deep concern here. These paramilitary organisations, according to one estimate, already
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 343 7 "In terms of tourist attractions historical and cultural monuments or natural sceneries—Singapore does not have some of the facilities provided by the European countries or Japan or even other Asian countries like Thailand and I n d on e s 1 a," says MRS. NG LOO PIN.
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    • 333 7 "Tourism as a form of industry is undoubtedly beneficial to the economy. It is therefore natural for most countries, particularly developing nations, to promote tourism," says DR. RIAZ HASSAN. "As the number of tourists increases, it will lead to the development of specialised agencies to cater
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    • Article, Illustration
      461 7  -  FRIDAY FORUM conducted by Ismail Kassim Tourism is the fastest expanding industry in Singapore, with a rapid growth rate of 23.4 per cent last year. According to projections. about one million tourists will visit Singapore this year. In anticipation of the rapid increase, the hotel industry has been expanding
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    • 131 7 CHARITY BOX The Cheshire Home's inmates range in age from four to 80. But, according to the general secretary of the home, Mrs. M.J. Holmberg there Is no generation gap. All 65 residents live as one big family, sharing problems and interests together. The sense of> belonging,
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    • 260 7 "Facilities at the Paya Lebar airport and the hotels are equal to any other city that I have visited. In most cases, they are much better. Travellers coming in are able to go through the entry rormaiities customs, immigration and health much faster than other cities,"
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    • 206 7 "If all those involved in the tourist trade are prepared to pool their resources in promoting Singapore, we can attract a greater number of tourists, says MR. GN LUCK WHYE. "In the past, most of our efforts were directed mainly at the Americans.
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    • 406 7 "Much more can be done to promote tourism in Singapore. So far. the Tourist Promotion Board has done a good job in advertising Singapore as a top tourist spot in its overseas promotions," says MR. ALBERT J. L. HEE "But given the tremendous growth of
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    • 395 7 "A two-prong promotion drive is being conducted by all the five overseas offices of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. Through seminars, exhibitions, cultural snows and other forms of publicity campaigns, our overseas offices promote Singapore to both tourists and travel agents," says MR. JOSEPH KONG.
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  • SHOPPING
    • 397 8 long week at the office crammed in by four blank walls and with nothing for company but piles and piles of paperwork is urging more and more people to take to the outdoors. And what with our whole island so congested, the outdoors these days also mean
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 611 9  -  ART BUCHWALD Los Angeles Times One of the big problems a newspaperman in this city has is when he speaks to one unnamed source who contradicts wnat another unnamed source has told him. Last week all of us struggled with the dilemma. An
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    • 542 9  -  INDIA r fASIAN DIARY From Lewis Simons Washington Post Sher Ali works like a horse. Each morning at 6.30 he steps between the shafts of a high-wheeled ricksha, grips one of the slender, wooden poles in each hand, leans into the weight of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 305 9 Introducing m*7% The thinnest Quartz watch you can bu Bubva Accuquartz Sleekly styled-actually slimmer thinner than many conventional automatic watches. Only the Bui ova Accuquartz can give you so many advanced features without the extra bulk of other quartz watches. Because Bulova pioneered in electronic watchmaking invested in research before
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  • FINANCE
    • 394 10 The Asian dollar market since its establishment in 1968 has made a deep imprint on the financial scene in Asia, particularly in Singapore which is its base of operations. During the first quarter of this year, in the midst of the world currency
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    • 136 10 Trans World Airlines launched its first charter cargo flight out of Singapore with 15,000 radio clocks destined for San Francisco recently. The clocks, worth $500,000, were securely packed into 13 pallets before loading on to TWA's Boeing 707 at the Singapore Airport.
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    • 194 10 Singaporeans going to or through the West German city of Frankfurt are entitled to 21 complimentary services in the city as part of a programme called Frankfurt Stopover "73, to attract more tourists. Announcing this, Mr. Albert vom Hofe, Lufthansa's manager for Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 308 10 Stocks closed lower In active trading yesterday on the New York Stock exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 8.65 to 955.90. Among the 1841 Issues traded, 825 declined in price and 696 advanced. Volume after four hours of trading was 19.730,000 shares, compared with 19,540,000 at the
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      • 143 10 Prices opened firm on the Tokyo Stock Market yesterday morning. Much of the incentive in the early morning session came from an advance In Wall Street. But while some laggards and large sized shares were selected for buying, profit-taking later affected forerun ners, sending the market tone weaker. Higher
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      • 227 10 Prices at 11.30 a.m. today (Australian time;. A baleen 10 11 Do Opts 024 nil AOO 05 08 Allstate 09 10 Amad 02* 05 Aurora 06 10 Do Opts nil 01 Aust Ant 14 15 Beach 24 25 Bounty Oil 004 01 Bridge 14 15 Castlereagh 054 06 Cleveland
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      • 220 10 Closing prices (in francs) yesterday. Paribas 228 (229) Indochine 251 (253.10) Foncier 392 (395) Pr in temps 392 (395) COE 437 (439) Bull 59 (59) Royal Dutch 174 (171) Michelin 1830 (1830) Thomson 266 (264) CFP 221 (220) Rhone 170.30 (173) Air 289.50 (278) BSN Danone 1341 (1323) Philips
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      • 86 10 This service is from the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in Swiss francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday. UBS 4120 —50 SBC 3630 —50 Credit Suisse B. 3650 —25 Swissair B. 615 Swiss Reinsur. 2450 10 Wmterthur B. 1900 —50 Zurich Insur. 6950 —35 Juvena B. 2555
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      • 34 10 Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 955.90 (off 8.65), 20 transport 181.10 (off 0 85), 15 Utilities 103.18 (Off 0.09), 65 stocks 292.68 (off 1.99).
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    • 184 10 Share prices closed imxed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The market opened quietly steady bat gained momentum when low priced industrials .were actively traded. With strong buying support many third line industrials advanced though blue chips again were a little lower. Gula Perak on a turnover
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    • 47 10 Pacific Cheml cals' profit for the first half of this year has more than doubled to $428,901 while sales went ud bv only 26 per cent to $4,822,766. The profit wiped out the accumulated loss of $235,289 at the beginning of this year.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • TREND
    • 241 11 Are you one of those who instinctively knows you've worn the right dress for the occasion? It's easy to pick the correct outfit from your wardrobe if you know whom you are seeing for lunch and where. Similarly if you are going for that all-important job interview or
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    • 842 11  -  FEMALE FRONT —SABRINA There are many women who quarrel with their mothers-in-law or their boyfriends' mothers. I don't have that problem. It has always been the case of the mother falling in love with me even before the son. In fact, in their own
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    • 642 11 DOC At a social gathering last week an expectant mother came up to me and said: "Hey, my baby is due in early January!" "So?" "Could I have my baby in December instead?" A few nights later at a cocktail a patient asked me
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 269 12  -  By Nancy Koh Singapore Schools Sports Council will send a team of 28 swimmers to defend their title In the schools tr i a ngular international meet in Bangkok next month. The other countries in the triangular, the fourth in the annual series, will be
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    • 186 12 Singapore will send three or four competitors to the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games at Dunedin, New Zealand in February. The Singapore Sports Council for the Handicapped, who met last night, decided to send a small team because of shortage of funds. Of the six names recommended by
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    • 18 12 London, Friday. Crewe beat Newport Country 4-1 in an English Division Four soccer match last night.
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    • 125 12 New York, Friday.— Former heavyweight champions Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali signed contracts here yesterday for their longawaited rematch, tentatively scheduled for February 4 next year in Madison Square Garden. The 12-round return bout will be staged in the same arena where Frazier outpointed Ali
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    • 29 12 Tokyo, Friday The results of Japan's professional baseball leagues: Central League—Taiyo 3 Hiroshima 1. Pacific League Lotte 6 Nittaku 5; Kintetsu 2 Taiheiyo 1; Hankyu 6 Nankai 2.
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    • 25 12 The Singapore Motor Sports Club will hold a 'Skilled Driving Test" at the Police Academy in Thomson Road on Sunday at 9 a.m.
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    • 368 13 By Blue Peter Daytona did a winning gallop at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by Lyle Harbridge, the Corinto five-year-old beat Epping Forest (George Podmore) and Raconmyth in a 3f trial in 37 3/5 on good going. Nameless sprinted smartly over 3f in 36 3/5.
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    • 80 13 Paris, Friday. —So far the owners of three horses had accepted invitat i on s for the Washington D.C. International on November 10, Laurel racecourse president John Shapiro said here yesterday. Mr. Shapiro, here for the Prix de L'arc de Triomphe on Sunday, told a Press conference
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    • 66 13 Los Angeles, Friday Holland's Tom Okker became the fifth player this year to go over the US$lOO,OOO mark in winnings on the International Tennis Circuit with his recent victory in the TAM International Open in Chicago. Okker, who defeated Ilie Nastase of Romania and John Newcombe of
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    • 34 13 London, Friday Habat, won the William Hill Middle Parks stakes for two-year-old colts and fillies run over 6f at Newmarket yesterday. Mr. Pitcairn was second. with Boots Green third of seven runners.
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    • 341 13 Paris, Friday. The Prix de L'Arc de Triomphei at Longchamp here on Sunday should provide the answer to who is the best filly in Europe this season. The matter was to have been settled in last month's Prix Vermeille with the two great
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    • 734 13 More than 200 horses have been registered with the MRA since the ban on importation was lifted late last year and more than half of them have won races. A number of them have shown promise and should win soon. Hong Chee tops my list of
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    • 1173 13  -  with Lim Kee Chan Seletar have already recaptured the Singapore Golf Association league title which they held in 1971. Due to a miscalculation, it was thought that Seletar would need one more point from their match against Sembawang on Sunday to overhaul Tengah for the title. In
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    • 84 13 London, Friday —Britain's Tony Jacklin, playing some of his finest golf of the season, shot Into a five-stroke lead In the second round of the £15,000 Dunlop Masters golf tournament at Chepstow yesterday. Jacklin set a new record for the 6619-yard St Pierre club course with a blistering
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    • 153 14 Today is Friday, October, the 278 th day of 1973 with 87 to follow. THE MOON is between its first quarter and full phase. THE MORNING STARS are Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of
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