New Nation, 24 August 1974

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    23 1 NEW NATION -SINGAPORE Saturday evening, August 24, 1974 NO. 1111 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 20/74 NEwfenON SINGAPORE. SATURDAY AUCUST 24, 1974
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    FRONT TO WIN 120: THAT'S THE BETTING
    726 1  -  Opposition's best chances are in Penang and Perak By Francis Rozario Kuala Lumpur, Saturday The betting here this morning is that the National Front will win between 110 and 120 seats in Parliament more than enough for a twothirds majority in the 154-seat
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    Lock icon Rains: A mixed blessing
    90 1 United Press International Rome, Saturday—Torrential rains and floods pelted Africa, south of the Sahara desert yesterday, bringing relief from a catastrophic six-year drought but at the same time hampering food relife shipments. A spokesman for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or g a nlsation (PAO)
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    Lock icon A sugar panic
    58 1 Reuter London. Saturday The government was yesterday warned that panic buying of sugar was going on and unless it took urgent action rationing would have to be imposed. The warning from the supermarket chains of Salnsburys and Safeway said the government had grossly mishandled the sugar shortage
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    Lock icon Three killed in blast
    27 1 Reuter Salisbury, Saturday Three white Rhodesia soldiers were killed yesterday when a land mine exploded under the vehicle in which they were travelling.
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    QUIET START TO POLLS
    297 1 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Voting got off to a slow but peaceful start in Malaysia's fifth general election this morning. The atmosphere was calm when the polling booths opened at 8 a.m. with the nation's security forces on alert and assurances from the government to the four
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    Lock icon Movie star is hurt in hotel brawl
    518 1 Flare up over toasted bread By Bharathi Mohan Hong Kong movie star, Chang Lye Lye, and her sister, Lan Tee, were kicked and punched by seven men iu the Hilton Hotel coffee house in a brawl over a plate of toasted bread, early
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  • Article
    Back Generosity
    246 1  -  From Blue Peter Ipoh, Saturday Generosity should give punters a good start in Race One at Ipoh today. The five-year-old by Linacre was freely mentioned at the course this morning. He can stay. Early in the season he flpished a good second to Summerland over 9±f at Kuala
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    Lock icon A Greek 'yes' to Soviet plan for peace
    256 1 Mavros: We will inform Britain Reuter Athens, Saturday Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros said here today Greece accepted the Soviet plan for the solution of the Cyprus crisis. The Soviet plan calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Island
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    OUR ROADS
    10 1 Police reported 101 accidents yesterday. Three were serious.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Poly campus at Dover Rd to cost $50m
      516 2  -  First phase ready by mid-next year By Teresa Ooi The Government will spend $50 million on the new Polytechnic Campus at Dover Road, expected to be ready by 1977. The first group of buildings will be completed by mid next year. When
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      Jobs in months for the grads
      255 2 They're in demand, says survey Most of Singapore Polytechnic's graduates found jobs within three months after graduation, according to a recent survey. The survey indicated that the market demand for Polytechnic graduates is strong and healthy as few faced difficulties in finding employment. This
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      Beauty salons hit by staff shortage
      192 2 Beauty and hairdressing salons in Singapore are facing an increasing shortage of skilled workers. Tills came to light after a random survey of leading salons and beauty centres. Mr. Roland Chow, of Roland Hairstyling and Fashion Centre, said: "Good hair-cuttres are very hard to
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      Customs men promoted
      213 2 Five division one officers in the Customs have been upgraded in one of the biggest promotion exercises of the department in recent years. Heading the list are two senior superintendents, Mr. K. Sandrasegara and Mr. Tan Sin Ghee, who have been promoted to the rank of Assistant
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      A perch that is really the limit...
      197 2 ROVING Sitting on top of wooden crates in Singapore's fast moving traffic is dangerous enough. But doing this and munching a banana at the same time is the limit any safety conscious citizen will tolerate. Which wasi wnat motivated our cameraman Jerry Seh
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      First aid for plucky crash victim
      118 2 Grimacing and fighting hard to stay conscious this elderly pedestrain sat it out while receiving first aid soon after a traffic accident in Clemenceau Avenue yesterday. He was walking along the road when he was involved in a collision with a motor cyclist outside
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      Operation Pantai Laut a big success
      299 2  -  Customs test out the preventive system By Douglas Chan Singapore Customs have successfully completed ap Island-wide operation codename Pantal Laut. The operation, the most ambitious organised by the Customs, Involved a huge quantity of various types of dutiable and prohibited goods worth several thousand
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      Swami talk
      28 2 Swami Bhaskarananda of the Ramakrishna Order will give a lecture on harmony of religions at the Ramakrishna Mission Hall, 179 Bartley Road, tomorrow at 5.30 p.m.
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      Dumping: Two fined $400
      118 2 Two men were fined $400 each by a magistrate yesterday, for illegal dumping of woodwaste in public places. They are Tan Siong Hin alias Tan Chong Hin, and Chan Kim Sek. They were charged for making use of secluded spots in the Buklt Pan Jang Area
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      Another hike in air fares soon...
      761 2  -  lATA approves 4 to 8 per cent By Nancy Koh Air fares are expected to go up by another four to eight per cent from Sept. 15. The latest price hike In air travel has been approved by the International Air Transport Association (LATA).
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      Small drop in egg prices
      241 2  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal The long-awaited drop in the prices of eggs and fishes has come at last. But the drop did not bring the prices of the two items to where the Increases started. The price of eggs, for example, dropped by about 10
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      TOUGH WAY TO EARN A LIVING...
      388 3 Life for kelong keeper Chua Kai Song, 60 (above), begins at 3 a.m. each day. He rises to a breakfast of steaming fish and squids which he scoops alive from the nets below his wooden house a few metres above the lapping sea of
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      Where the sights keep changing
      159 3 Singapore's fast rate of economic growth makes it a very exciting place to go to. Mr. Lyndon Jones, a specialist in management and supervisory training and principal of a London college, said: "Unless you come to Singapore every year, you won't be able to recognise
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      Lock icon Now the sun sets on the kelongs
      358 3  -  A local fishing style that is fast fading WORDS: Richard Lim The tide of progress has swept away nearly 90 per cent of Singapore's kelongs over the past 10 years. A decade ago, there were more than 500 of these fishing traps dotting
      PICTURES: Sulaiman Ismail  -  358 words
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Israel is ready to strike first...
      465 4 Warning to Arabs UPI and Reuter Tel Aviv, Saturday Defence Minister Shimon Peres yesterday warned the Arabs that Israel was ready to strike first if threatened with the outbreak of a new Middle East war and urged a boost in size for the Israeli
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      Lock icon Embassy under guard
      142 4 United Press International Seoul, Saturday South Korean police guarded the Japanese Embassy yesterday to prevent possible damage by demonstrators angry over Japan's alleged lack of action in a case involving the attempted assassination of President Park Chung-hee. All roads leading to the embassy were cordoned off by
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      Lock icon The elusive spy...
      45 4 Reuter Islamabad, Saturday— The head of an Indian spy ring In Pakistan escaped to London because of the incompetence of Pakistani intelligence, an opposition senator claimed yesterday. Senator Khawaja Mohammad Safdar accused the government of failing to find and arrest Indian spies.
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      Lock icon Iraqi 'no'
      40 4 Reuter Bonn, Saturday.—lraq will not allow the Soviet Union to set up military bases on its territory. Mr. Nairn Hadad. secretarygeneral of the Iraqi National Progressive Front and regional leader of the ruling Baath Party, said here yesterday.
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      Lock icon Village and third outpost fall to the Viet Cong
      336 4 Tank-led force rout defenders UPI and Reuter Saigon, Saturday Communist forces have captured the third government outpost in as many days northwest of here in Tay Ninh province as well as a village near a beleaguered Central Highlands base camp, the
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      Lock icon LIMIT POPULATION PRESSURES CALL
      385 4 UPI and Reuter Bucharest, Saturday Britain yesterday joined a group of developed countries calling for action to limit population pressures in the next century. Lord Shepherd, leader of the British delegation, told the UN sponsored population conference: "We should work out the action we need to
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      Lock icon Probe on how tropics affect the weather
      329 4 UPI A fleet of 32 ships from 10 nations is probing the tropical air and sea between South America and Africa in an unprecedented co-opera-tive effort to find out how the tropics affect the weather around the world. "This is, perhaps, the largest
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      Lock icon 'Nixon has already been hung...'
      240 4 Reuter Washington. Saturday Vice-Presldenttal nominee Nelson Rockefeller said yesterday he opposed the prosecution of former President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. At a brief news conference at his summer estate in Seal Harbour, Maine, Mr. Rockefeller told reporters he agreed with
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      Lock icon Sea search
      30 4 United Press International Seoul, Saturday Search teams hunted today for six schoolchildren missing after a ferry boat capsized yesterday. Three children were confirmed dead and 11 were rescued.
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      Lock icon $23 M DRUG RAIDS SPELL END OF 'RING IN MEXICO'
      157 4 Reuter Chicago, Saturday Police think they have nearly s m a shed a "Mexican connection" in heroin and cocaine after they seized almost US$lO million ($24 million > worth of the drugs yesterday. Police arrested nine men and a woman
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      Lock icon Inflation: Major crisis ahead in Australia
      577 4 The Los Angeles Times Australia is being plagued by inflation. It has engulfed the nation in an atmosphere of wartime austerity as the penalty for record wage increases and with them more labour unrest and government indecision. Services have been cut, goods are in
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      The bridge is a promise of the future
      1293 4 A Penang showpiece which will decide in favour of Front MALAYSIAN ELECTIONS $200 mil. centre another hot subject From Francis Rozario in Penang A bridge, which may be built with expertise from Peking, and an officeshopping complex these two multi-mil-lion dollar development
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      294 4 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 5 Secret agent 6 so 7 Draw lines 8 Aspens, for example 9 Attack 10 Small viscid drop 11 Great cat of Asia 12 Sport's palace 13 Verbose 18— line 22 Jacks of trumps at cribbage 24 Letter 27 Dance of the Forties 28 Study (over) 29
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  • FINANCE
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      Depressed sentiment sends prices further down
      470 5  -  By Lee Yew Meng Depressed sentiment throughout the wee* sent Singapore share prices further down. So poor was the buying support that the Straits Times industrial index twice (or thrice if yesterday's "freak" one was counted) tumbled below it previous 2Vzyear low of 210.30,
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      THE SHARE MARKET
      2001 5 INDUSTRIALS 1974 4 wks. Closing Price Last Week's Week's High Low ago Slock Buyers Sellers Sale or* Turnover 2 70 1 88 2.10 Ac ma 1.89 1 88 -0.06 3 1.36 0.83 1.00 Adhesive Tape 0.84 0.86 0 84 -0.01 4 2.75 2.30 2.40 Ajinomoto 2.35 2.45
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      Business briefs..
      350 5 MR. K. HASE, production control manager of Yokogawa Electric Sinpore. is in Singapore to study the procurement of materials, production control system, transportation system and packaging for the precision instruments to be produced by his company. This study is complementary to the one made by Mr. S. Takara.
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      Lock icon Retail food prices to rise by four per cent in US
      248 5 United Press International Washington, Saturday American retail food prices in the second half of 1974 will rise by four to five per cent instead of declining as predicted before the summer drought decreased harvest prospects, the Agriculture Department said
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
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        New York
        409 5 New York, Saturday. The Dow Jones industrial average closed yesterday below the 700-level for the first time in more than four years. The widely followed index. which measures movement in blue chip stocks, ended the session at 686.80, a drop of 17.83 points on the day. This was
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        Tokyo
        258 5 After four days of continuous decline, stock prices moderately rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on technical rally reflecting the reaction of Thursday's later session. Leading the rally were foodstuffs, constructions and speculatives. Such neglected issues as constructions led by housing development related issues bounced on news that the
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        Paeis
        219 5 Closing prices (in franc) on the Paris Bourse yesterday. Paribas 129 +3 Indochine 152 —1.50 Foncier 280 —1 Printernps 80+1 CGE 279.80 80 Bull 36.30 —.20 Royal Dutch 138.50 +5.10 Michelin 742 —21 Thomson 147.20 —6 60 CFP ***** +1.60 Rhone 129 +1.20 Air 265 +1 BSN 680 —6
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        Dow Jones
        34 5 Dow Jones closing stock averages on New York Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 686 80 <o(f 1783), 20 transport 143.07 (off 0.77), 15 utilities 64.16 (off 0 77), 65 stocks 210.60 (off 5.05).
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        Zurich
        85 5 This service is from the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in Swiss franc t on Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS 2700 +30 SBC 490 +4 Credit Suisse 2420 420 Swissair B 485 Swiss Reinsur. 1910 Winterthur B 1360 —70 Zurich Insur. 5825 +25 Juvena B. 1400 —10 Nestle
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      Lock icon Britain's stock market more optimistic
      212 5 Reuter London. Saturday Britain's battered stock market ended the week on a more optimistic note yesterday after share prices moved upwards in moderate trading. The Financial Times index of 30 leading industrial shares gained 8.5 points to close for the August Bank Holiday weekend at
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      Lock icon British fair in Brazil
      77 5 United Press International Sao Paulo, Saturday. Princess Alexandra of Britain yesterday inaugurated in this city the British Industrial fair the largest ever held outside England. "The purpose of the fair is to show what Britain has to offer in capital goods, technology and investments, the Princess
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  • OPINION
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      The reasons for the retrenchments
      426 6 The retrenchment of more than 2,000 workers in the electronics industry since the beginning of the month may be giving the impression that Singapore is on the verge of an economic recession. However, what has happened in the industry this month must be seen in
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
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        No longer detectives
        18 6 A touch of class: Los Angeles police force no longer has "detectives" It has "Investigators."
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        Postcards of Japan
        39 6 Singapore can well lay claim to being an International marketplace. One department store is even selling scenic postcards of Japan! Are they for homesick Japanese based In Singapore or for the Japanese tourists who pass through?
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        Experience vs paper
        51 6 My quote of the week comes from the exasper- ated man who was being interviewed for a promotion. "You people only want paper qualifications which I know I can get if I wanted to," he told his Interviewers, "but what I have my experience nobody else can
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      Ten months after the revolution
      934 6  -  Ten months after the October revolution which overthrew the Kittikachorn regime, there is a growing feeling that nothing has changed in Thailand. Speaking to a young Thai who had played a leading role in the revolution, Edgar Koh gets the impression that there is a
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      Lock icon SOUTH KOREA MAY BE ANOTHER QUAGMIRE FOR US
      863 6  -  By Edwin O. Reischauer The Los Angeles Times Recent political develop ments in South Korea present the United States with difficult policy decisions which, if not faced realistically, could lead to American involvement in another Asian quagmire. The basic facts have been
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      Lock icon Mutual blackmail in world trade
      1108 6  -  From Dan Morgan Washington Post Ten months after the oil nations closed ranks to impose unprecedented price increases, Government experts nave concluded that other potential mineral and commodity cartels could not squeeze the United States very hard for very long. In the panicky aftermath of
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      Lock icon Economic policies of Ford
      233 6 EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS The New York Times President Ford Is proving a tonic for a nation weary of deceit and arrogance in high places. His appearance before a Joint session of Congress carried forward the refreshing sense he gave at his swearing-in of a leader open
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      Lock icon Koreans in Japan
      222 6 Mainichi Shimbun The fact that Mun Se Kwang, the would-be assassin of Bouth Korean President Park, Is not a Japanese has given a feeling of relief to many Japanese. Even after the Identity of Mun Se Kwang was announced by the South Korean authorities, It Is reported,
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  • SATURDAY REVIEW
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      P. BRANI: INTO A BRAVE NEW WORLD
      361 7  -  S'pore Notebook by Pakir Singh Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew opened the Singapore Maritime Command's naval base at Pulau Brani. Few people realised that it also marked the end of the Pulau Brani of old kampung houses built on
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      Lock icon Looking for paradise in ex-mining town
      1125 7  -  By Joan Sweeney Los Angeles Times The new American dream for many, especially the young, is to escape the urban rat race and settle in an idyllic mountain or seaside town. A town like Telluride. During the last couple of years, a flood of
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      SATURDAY SMILES...
      387 7 A PROFESSOR has said that women have a keener sense for sex than men. In fact they can tell whether they have "turned on" a man from several feet away. And it's all because of the scent a man gives off when he Is sexually excited. Prof. Francis
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      THE LAND OF THE LONG GRAVES
      349 7  -  Weekend jaunt by Betty L. Khoo On weekends boatloads of pilgrims, laden with animals and fowls for sacrifice, cross over to Pulau Besar in the Straits of Malacca to pay homage to the "long graves." These long graves, ranging in length from 4 to
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      Lock icon Thailand is slowly slipping away from the world tourist map...
      482 7  -  By Sumalee Phithayakorn United Press International A middle- aged teacher from France steps out of her Bangkok hotel to begin exploring this exotic South East Asian city and has her purse snatched, losing US$5OO ($1230) and all her travel documents.
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      Thomas goes Down Under to display his works
      498 8  -  Landscape pieces, abstracts for Melbourne ART BY JENNIFER SCHOON Mr. Thomas Yeo, a local artist, left for Melbourne, Australia, earlier this week to exhibit his work. This will be his second exhibition "down under" and 28 paintings, all landscape pieces, went ahead
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      String orchestra concert you must not miss
      624 8  -  THEATRE BY VIOLET OON Don't miss the great Eugene Ysaye Chamber Orchestra's concerts on Sunday and Monday at the Development Bank of Singapore Auditorium. This will be the first time that a string orchestra (with harpsicord) will be performing under ideal conditions in
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      Sleep—or just give that party bore the slip
      874 8  -  Betty L. Khoo A chap I know has a very effective way of dealing with bores. He simply falls off to sleep. It seems that the monotonous drone of a bore's voice has a hypnotic effect which sends a signal to this
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      Lock icon Easy come, easy go toy game
      455 8  -  By Jack Smith Los Angeles Times Some time ago I made the decision to deny myself the toys that are so much a part of every American male's life in this affluent if inflationary society. If a man had too many toys, it seemed
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      DOUBLE HAPPINESS AS CHILDREN FROM HOME ENTER FINALS
      214 8 Swaying to the rhythm of the music and singing "you can smile when it's cloudy or fair," this group of children from the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home was selected to enter the finals of the Welfare Talentime '74. It was
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      Next date for film that's becoming a hit
      768 8  -  One-hour Cantonese drama SIGHT SOUND •Y S SONNY YAP The seamy side of Hong Kong's impoverished masses has always been a favourite subject for film and television dramatisation. The current crop of "House" and "Street" films flooding the local cinema circuit is
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      Executive fit
      151 9  -  Chan Li Wah i look out the tinted glass window §th Fir of a new office-cum-shopping complex i see Progress soaring 'scrapers, well-proportioned business-like, growing to completion i survey my room solid, black formica-topped table comfortable» springy seat and for the visitor wooden chairs, reminiscent of the school-room
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      A grey poem
      139 9  -  Ong Teong Heau men and women grow grey with -pain and sorrow; science promises too long that this age has a cure; no amount of grey morning exercise and tai-chi, walk or run will blacken our hair from white or ash of grey age. grey years have
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      Intense but loveless family links
      171 9 fn I ilm dav paperbacks,., THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner, (Peguin), 284 pages. Ever since the first furore was created on publication day in 1929, this book has been considered one of the major novels of this century. Although It is difficult
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      BACK IN BUSINESS
      37 9 THE THIN MAN by Dashiell Hammett (Penguin), 190 pages. A prettty wife called Nora,a Schnauzev called Asta, and a taste for good Scotch. With that Nick Charles, ex-detective agency ace, was back in business.
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      A classic among the first
      148 9 THE SECRET AGfINT by Joseph Conrad, (Penguin), 249 pages. F.R. Leavis, the noted critic described this book as "one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the unquestionable classics of the first order that he added to the English novel." Although some critics would dispute
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      Choice issues will be on display
      385 9  -  STAMPS •Y ANDREW LAU Stamp-lovers can look forward to a wide selection of philatelic materials at tomorrow's auction at 51, Armenian Street at 1 p.m. This auction is the first-ever Joint function to be organised by the two leading philatelic bodies the Singapore Philatelic
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      Flight in search of love
      100 9 THE DRIVER'S SEAT by Muriel Spark, (Penguin), 107 pages. Llse, driven to distraction by an office Job. leaves everything and flies south on holiday—in search of what? The passionate frfventure, the obsessional experience: sex? Well, yes, but Lise's creator Is Muriel Spark, writing from the
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      Cover of the week
      78 9 Idries Shah, author of The Way of the Sufi, has long been recognised as the leading interpreter of Sufi methods and practice to the world. This anthology of Studies in Experientlalism is a collection of entertaining anecdotes and parables in action illustrating the eminently practical approach
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      The literary women...
      567 9 SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL: Women and Literature, by Elizabeth Hardwick (Random House, 208 pp., U556.95). This is a maddening book by one of America's best critics. All ho ugh Elizabeth Hardwick has never developed the following or the fame of an Edmund Wilson, Philip, Rahv or Susan Sontag,
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      Big match draws many fans
      711 9  -  CHESS BY LIM KOK ANN The match between Zahir Farooqui of Pakistan and Tan Lian Ann held at Hotel Phoenix was attended by quite a number whom I have never seen before at chess events. This is evidence that there Is Interest in chess among
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      Watergate: A most damaging US scandal...
      1017 9 THE WATERGATE HEARINGS: B re a k in and Cover-up. Edited by the staff of The New York Times, (Bantam), 886 paces. Reviewed by Tan Tee Jim. It was the most damaging political scandal ever to befall the American Presidency and the last of
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      'Queen' Sharon just loves to be put on ice
      408 10  -  in WORLD by Nancy Koh A world of fantasy exists on the ice-rink for Taiwanese skating queen, Sharon Huang Ping. Put her on ice and she becomes a different person, exploding into action with spirit and grace. She spins, she glides,
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      Ali beaten
      35 10 Havana, Saturday Ememterio Villanueva of Mexico qualified last night for the lightmiddleweight quarterfinals at the first World Amateur boxing championships here when he defeated Mohamed Ali of Ghana In a second series bout.
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      115 10 Reuter Vienna, Saturday Ulrike Richter, 15, of East Germany smashed her own. world 100 m backstroke record for the second time in 24 hours to win the European title in 63.30 sec. This chipped 0.76 second off the world record she set In Thursday's heats. Sweden's springboards
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      309 10 Reuter Teheran, Saturday The presence of the Israeli team at the 7th Asian Games has prompted an unequalled display of security by police and army units around the Games complex on the outskirts of the capital. The Games are set for September 1-15 and as as
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      Lock icon Zaheer hits 240 in Pakistan's 600
      557 10 Reuter London. Saturday Zaheer Abbas scored 240 as Pakistan mercilessly rammed home their advantage against England on the second day of the third and final cricket Test here yesterday. With the Oval pitch as benign as it had been on the first day, the
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      Silverio blazes in with 68
      1142 11  -  The Philippines are only five strokes behind Malaysia By LIM KEE CHAN Luis Silverio, the crack Filipino with a plus-two handicap, burned up the 6655yard par-71 Bukit Course yesterday with a superlative three-under-par 68 to push his team from fourth to second spot after the
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      Sentak Bulan to win Gold Vase
      455 11  -  By SCRUTINEER Sentak B u 1 a n, twice winner of the King's Cup in 1972 and 1973, can add another glittering sprint prize to his record by winning the Sultan's Gold Vase (Race 4) at Ipoh tomorrow. Sentak Bulan came back from a
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      Call for more Inter-Con sports
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      Lock icon Oosterhuis sparks England victory
      268 11 Reuter Edinburgh, Saturday.— England, sparked by a great rally from captain Peter Oosterhuis, defeated Ireland two matches to one with one halved and maintained their unbeaten record at the top of the International team golf tournament at Gleneagles yesterday. Oosterhuis was two down with three to
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      Lock icon FA order for 5 players to face charges
      254 11 Reuter London, Saturday. English Football Association yesterday ordered five players from Leeds United and Liverpool to appear before their Disciplinary Committee following incidents in the Charity Shield match between the clubs on August 10. Leeds captain Billy Bremner and Liverpool's England international
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      18 11 Federal Publication beat McGraw Hill (FEP> 5-0 in a friendly soccer match at Dover Road yesterday.
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      152 12 TODAY is Saturday. Aug. 24, the 236 th day of 1974 with 129 to follow. THE MOON is in its first quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. THE EVENING STAR is Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. Roman Catholic
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      1519 12 TV RADIO All your weekend viewing and listening SINGAPORE S SATURDAY 1.00 OPENING ANNCTS. followed by SESAME STREET 2.00 SATURDAY MATINEE Voyage To The End Of The Universe: 25th century: Lives of men and women abroad a research space ship are endangered by radiation from Dark Star which puts all
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      455 12 WHAT'S ON The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. S. Rajaratnam. will attend the NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION DINNER Of the Singapore Tamils Movement at its Norris Road premises at 7 p.m. The Minister for Culture and MP for Queenstown Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, will give away prizes at a National Day
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