New Nation, 12 July 1979

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  • 20 1 New Nation SINGAPORE Thursday, July 12, 1979 2617 Price 25 cents M.C.(P) No. 144/1/79 r -—i NEW (£0) NATION COMMENT
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  • 112 1 The driver ti this Mult MS escaped with mlwr hJarles la this aaasaai accident at the II km Yle Cha Kaag Bead yesterday. Felice ssli the driver, aa army eCfieer, was travelling la a Use with three armsaved ears whea Prellmary lavestlgatlsas shswed that
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  • 257 1  -  Time-off to learn new skills By Ivan Lim Daily-rated labourers will soon be trained for skilled jobs as the government mechanises and cuts down the use of such workers. The government will, for the first time, grant time-off to these people to attend part-time courses at the
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  • 39 1 Bangkok, Thursday A band of 100 heavily-armed communist insurgents yesterday blasted a police armoured car escorting a payroll train in the South of Thailand, about 600 km from here, killing seven policemen in the attack.
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    • 31 1 INSIDE History that's enough to bowl you over Pages 10,11 Soft drinks: Price increase again? Page 14 IN THE OTHER PAGES: Moneywords 4; Crossword, Comics 16; Stars 18; What's On 19.
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  • 579 2  -  By Ivan Lim The MP for Potong Pasir, Mr Howe Yoon Chong, yesterday wrote a series of letters for his constituents. Eight out of 10 were for the Housing and Development Board. The letters contained requests from residents, being resettled at Ang Mo Kio housing
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  • 112 2 Share prices hovered at yesterday's closing levels during the first hour of light trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore today. Counters traded generally were marking time. F and N featured in a block deal of 272,000 units at $5.30. BUSINESS DONE First SecttM S'gore Bus (2) 2.53
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  • 59 2 A seamstress was knocked unconscious in a ladies toilet on the 14th floor of Tan Boon Liang Building in Outram Road yesterday. Miss Wong Kwai Ho, 25, was hit on the back by a hard object. She turned round and saw a man armed with a baton.
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  • 334 3 Singapore Tourist Promotion Board expects an eight per cent growth in the number of visitors this year three per cent more than its earlier forecast. The optimistic projec- tion is based on arrivals for the first five months this year which have exceeded expectations.
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  • 152 3 The Government will build a pedestrian bridge across Rochore Canal to provide a direct access between the "thieves' market" at Sungei Road and Rochore shopping centre. At present, pedestrians who wish to shop in these two areas have to walk either through the Jalan Besar-Rochore Canal
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  • 166 3 This piece of land in Sims Avenue is where the $9 million Mansuri technical school to be built by the Singapore Buddhist Federation will rise. Scheduled for completion by the end of next year, it will have three four-storey blocks housing 28 classrooms, workshops for electrical,
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  • 193 4  -  13 for special course in New Zealand By Teresa Ooi The Education Ministry will spend $50,000 a year sponsoring 13 teachers to do an overseas course on the teaching of English as a second language (TESL). This is the first time the Ministry is sponsoring
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    • 235 4 WIN 30 FANTASTIC PRIZES PUIS 10 BONUS PRIZES! From BULOVA The pioneer and world leader in electronic time-keeping :n: N ft 7 's HOW TO ENTER: Buy any Bulova or Titus watch during tho Contest period. This Contest is open to all residents of Singapore, West £r East Malaysia and
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 577 4 Cut out and pin with other coupons. Posting instructions appear below Nome (Mr./ Mrs./ Miss): Address: N R.I.C. No: Tel: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW ,Cut along dotted linesHMM CLUES FOR 10-4 1. Entrance to a room, etc. 2. Will not ba expectad to harm dalicata fabrica
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  • 315 5 Everyday of the week, and especially during recess. time, a group of teachers and prefects of Kim Seng Technical School go on their rounds in the school compound. Armed with lists of all the pupils
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  • 270 5  -  By Richard Adhikari Chinese students want whole-heartedly to speak English instead of dialects in school. But three factors inhibit them lack of confidence in their ability to speak English, force of habit ana poor command of the language. A New Nation team
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  • 208 6 World Focus AFP Jakarta, Thursday: Indonesian traders in the Rhio islands, south of Singapore, have blamed "Operation Lightning" for the worsening economic situation there, Antara news agency reported yesterday. The traders said prices of daily commodities have soared by about 20 per cent since the operation
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  • 78 6 UPI TODAY is Thursday, July 12, the 193 rd day of 1979 with 172 to foUow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancor. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Lb 1933, a new industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an
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  • 100 6 Reuter Rome, Thursday A 150-nation conference opens here today aimed at helping the millions of impoverished people living in rural areas of the Third World. The 10-day world conference on Agrarian Development ana Rural Reform is intended to set new goals and seek new
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  • 23 6 UPI Manila, Thursday Indonesian President Suharto is to visit Manila from July 17 to 18 for talks with President Marcos. UPI
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  • 33 6 AFP New Delhi, Thursday What could be a mere appropriate way to remember Shylab by? A newly-born baby bey In Patlala, PunSb, has been named ;ylab Singh by his parents. AFP
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  • 123 6 UPI Johannesburg, Thursday A distraught restaurant owner intends saing President Jimmy Carter and the US government (or 150,000 rand (about $359,000) for the 'mental anguish' caused by the threat of Skylab falling on his family. Johnny Holthausen told UPI he thought the
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    • 315 6 The General Who Loves Books Panglima Yang Gemarkan Buku-Buku illustrator: Arthero Lim m A. 1 W Wm iili -,\e m I/ I- ij a mm. m #v» ysi*rl a I to K m m s lip r> rvf^ 1 1 £5 o o In the course of rummaging through the
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  • 207 7 China lashes back World Focus Reuter Hong Kong, Thursday The New China News Agency yesterday accused Vietnam of carrying out missile firing practice along their tense border as part of preparations for war against China. The accusation followed Tuesday's Vietnamese claim that Chinese troops were
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  • 67 7 Reuter Geneva, Thursday A tariff-cutting agreement negotiated in marathon world trade talks became official yesterday, paving the way for 99 participating countries to give concessions on over US$l25 billion ($262.5 billion) worth of goods. A protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) was formally opened
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  • 106 7 Reuter Geneva, Thursday Women in rural China are supposed to possess equal rights but they will have to complete a long march before fully enjoying them, according to a study published by the International Labour Organisation yesterday. The communist government since 1949 swept away centuries
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  • 49 7 Vietnamese refugees standing In line at the registration counter at Reissy-Charles de Gaulle airport after their arrival from Kuala Lumpur en Tuesday. They are part of a group of 217 refugees from Vietnam who flew in by plane chartered by the city of Paris. AP picture
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  • News in brief
    • 81 7 AP Greenville, South Carolina, Thursday A US$l.3 million ($2.8 million) suit has been filed against a Clemson motel by 13 guests from six states who stayed there in June 1977. They claimed motel employees spied on them through peep holes in mirrors. The complaint against a Holiday
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    • 27 7 Bangkok, Thursday The Thai cabinet yesterday authorised the Defence Ministry to set up an explosives factory to cope with increasing "threats", a government spokesman revealed yesterday.
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    • 32 7 Reuter Bangkok, Thursday Six policemen were believed killed and one wounded when their armoured carrier hit a landmine, apparently planted by communist guerillas in southern Thailand, police said yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 155 7 ec va y\ 'I > .A. v tv 1 'S 3 tv 11 t'JIm •at 4 •i > <* 4 »TiP vk V;V •TV w V HI *4} Wt 3^-4 f) .<• V »7i Ten of Europe's Best Mannequins are flying to Singapore to present the truly remarkable collection of
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  • 461 8 Ten year olds prefer doing their mathematics homework to reading. This is one of the startling findings of the Institute of Education when it conducted a survey on the reading habits and difficulties of Primary Four students. The institute also found that children preferred
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  • 678 8  -  Where blacks' English is as much a dialect issue as the case in Singapore Edgar Koh New York: Differences of languages used in school and at home hamper some children in America as they do in Singapore. The government provides US$l5O million ($330 million)
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  • 490 8 Tales my mother told me Cheong Lay Soo, clerk, 30, 787 L, Block 22, Bedok South Avenue 1, Singapore 1646, heard this story from her grandmother when she was 10 years old. Long ago in a small village, there lived
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    • 46 8 Watch out for a group of women residents In Futura Apartments along Leonie Hill who call themselves FANG. But not to worry, their principal occupation is to sit aroud and put their claws, I mean, fingers, to stitching. FANG stands for Futura Apartments Needlepoint Group.
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    • 42 8 A friend from Hong Kong ordered a Pernod (pronounced Pair-noh) in a local restaurant. The waitress looked puz- zled so she tried again. "Oh', said the girl with a knowing look. She came back on the double with a Panadol.
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  • 708 9  -  Research just 'hack work with little relevance' 1969 speech By Gerry de Silva Local scientists are expecting Health Minister, Dr Toh Chin Chye to deliver another critical salvo on university fesearch work when he addresses a seminar tomorrow. They remember a similar seminar on research exactly
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  • 514 9  - What happened to good old American know-how Art Buchwald Los Angeles Times Washington The one thing all of us in this country prided ourselves on was "American KnowHow." No matter how messed up things got politically, we always could say: "What makes this country different is that we've got Know-How."
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  • 2080 10/11  -  The first bowling alley was run by the American Club. There were only four dark brown lanes in those early days of 1955. No automatic pin-setters and floor markers. Everything was operated manually and pinboys were the pillars of the operation. You could see their
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  • 66 10/11 Industrialist Jack Oei ef Jackie's Bawl to sees la this IM4 pfetare riving aa eight-year-old a helping hand at her first attempt at hewilng. The ■ccssfrn was the Bre>view ef Ids new howling alley Jackie' Bewlat the Orchard, Singapore's lint eMnmsreial nowllag centre. That was
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  • Article, Illustration
    82 10/11 Guess who Weald yea have gaessed that this Is a picture ef bawling king Henry Tan 11 yean age? He was thea eae of the eempettters la the International Masters reglenal bawling teanuuneat at Jaelde's Bawl. Henry stamped himself as Asia's top bewler whea he seared a doable la the
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  • 72 10/11 "S.P. never once ran away from a challenge," says an old-timer, remembering the great S.P. Loh whom many still regard as the greatest bowler ever to grace the local lanes. "I still remember the day when an Australian professional named Gary Barling challenged him to
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  • 395 10/11 March, 1965 American Club opened a fourlane alley at its premises in Scotts Road, (for members only) Mar If, IMS Singapore Island Country Club opened a four-lane centre at Upper Thomson, (for members only) Dee S4, IIM Jackie's Bowl Orchard became the first commercial centre to open in
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  • 126 10/11 Jackie's Bowl System 460 (1964) 24 AMF System 460 lanes. Yi-Lung Bowl (1965) Eight Brunswick lanes. Jackie's Bowl Katong (1965) 20 AMF Modj Star Bowl (1973) 36 Brunswick Astroline lanes. Anson Bowling Centre (1973) 12 AMF System 460 lanes. Jurong Bowl (1974) 20 Brunswick Astroline lanes. Pasir
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  • trend 1
    • 945 12  -  Cheating helps Cook In with Margaret Chan Whoever said anything was as easy as pie, probably never made one. Pie-making is a tedious process and certainly not easy. The filling has to be precooked. You need to have the seasoning just right for it to
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 12 Now even a travel case for Jewellery. And why not? The wallet Is designed with compartments for rings and chains. $13.5# from Philippine Trade House. Colonrfnl woven container hides the hnmhle toilet roll. $S.Sf from Philippine Trade Hesse.
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    • 925 13  -  by Sylvia Leow My five-year-old kindergarten-going son received his first report from school the other day. He was totally unconcerned, though slightly excited about this colourful picture book, which report books now have become, in which all sorts of letters were
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    • 290 13 What's Cooking? 1 I Have you ever opened a bottle of wine to cook a dish only to see the rest of the bottle go to waste? If you have, didn't you wish for miniature bottles of wine? Well, if you did, your prayers
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  • 168 14 UPI London, Thursday The dollar (ell again on European money markets yesterday and gold also closed lower. The gold closing price was US$l lower in Zurich at U*****,125 and US$l.5O down in London at U*****,625. On the Frankfurt foreign exchange market, the dollar lost one pfennig, closing at
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  • 29 14 Reuter Washington, Thursday The United States faces a mild recession this year but should pull out of it in 1980, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 319 14 F N may have to increase its prices again r I Business News and Views I L -L Fraser Neave, one of the leading soft-drink bottlers here, has indicated that it may have to increase its prices again to offset higher wage costs. This indication comes just after the five-cent
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  • 255 14 Mr Tan Peng Chuan has been appointed marketing manager of Leo Shipping this month. He has had 10 years with the Port of Singapore Authority which he joined in 1969 as assistant traffic superintendent. He was made container Grt manager in 1974 and s been responsible for
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  • 239 14 New York, Thursday Stocks fell for the second consecutive session yesterday in heavy trading, with oils taking the brunt of the selling. In reaction to President Carter's decision not to decontrol gasoline prices. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, according to some sources, is going to resign because of
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  • 37 14 UPI New York, Thursday Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Slock Exchange yester- industrials 843.86 (off 6.48): 20 transport 248.64 (off 1.70); 15 utilities 108.09 (off 0.20); 65 stocks 298.76 (off 1.92). UPI
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 88 14 GLASS PLUS CLEANS GLASS Plus ALMOST —X ANYTHING tex/ze B Of course Glass Plus cleans glass and without streaking. But this amazing little cleaner is also great on cabinets, tabletops, aluminium, even your car chrome bumpers", vinyl upholstery-. Comes in re-usable spray containers for r ironing or garden w insecticides.
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    • 48 14 METRIC NEWS *-ASM' SANYO CAN DO ALL YOUR METRIC CONVERSIONS AT ONE-TOUCH UK oz cc, in cm ft m, mil km in 2 cm 2, ft 2 —m 2 oz cc, UK gal—ltr in 3—cm 3 ft 3 m 3 Gal —Itr, oz g 1 CX723IM CSfe'Or.' k
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  • 249 15 Tennis New York, Thursday Wimbledon doubles champions John McEnroe and Peter Fleming lost a stormy preliminary round doubles match to French Open winners Sandy and Gene Mayer last night at the Forest Hills Invitation tennis tournament. The Mayers won 6-4, 26, 7-6 in a one-hour and 51minute duel
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  • 393 15  -  Basketball By TONY KOH Lam Teck Electric bowed out of the title chase for Premier League basketball championship when they crashed to a 9584 defeat by defending champions Singapore Airlines at the Gay World Stadium last night. With this defeat Lam Teck's best chance now
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  • 273 15 Golf AFP Fairfield, (Connecticut), Thursday. Nancy Lopez starts as firm favourite for the United States Women's Open golf championship, which gets underway here today, with a record prize money of U5125.000 ($262,000) at Stdk6. Miss Lopez will be bidding for success in what is
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  • 76 15 Johannesburg, Thursday South African heavyweight boxing champion Gerrie Coetzee will meet John Tate of the United States in Pretoria on Oct 20, it was announced here yesterday. Sol kerzner, managing director of a Hotel Cnain sponsoring the fight, said American promoter Bob Arum had signed
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    • 427 15 BUILDING DECORATION/REPAIRS MODERN UVNM GENERAL CONTRACTOR We specialise In housing renovation. A wide range of marbles, ceramic, terraszo, mosaic, parquet awaits your selection. Also dealers of materials. Open on Sundays. 514 Geylang Road (Lorong 28) S'pore 14. Tel: *****0. HDB Licence PW SPECIAL TREATMENTS SINGAPORE ACUPUNCTURE CENTRE, 104, Ist Floor,
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    • 104 15 NOTICE (Incorporated in tha Republic of Singapore) LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE The undermentioned Share Certificate he* been reported lost or destroyed: Shere Certificate No. Name of Shareholder Wo. of ehares of >1/- each *****8 Madam Urn Sian So. 1 X 5.000 Notice it hereby given that if within fourteen (14) deye
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  • 504 16  -  On the track By TURF RAY Swiss Tiger, a course scratching last week, showed encouraging form in a workout at Bukit Timah this morning. With jockey C. H. Tan astride, the four-year-old son of Workboy, went on the bit to return 36.4 for 600 m.
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  • 247 16 SATURDAY Race 1: (2.M) CLub g Div 5 12Mm: SUalag Byes. Ram 2: (2J9) QamS Wv 4 12N: Daaaa. T»p Cm, Fire bread. Race J: (3.M) Cum 5 Div 3 IZMm: Imperial CltatUa, Race 4: (J.*) Clam 1 Div 4 IZMm: Manlflceat, Dad's (4J9) Clam 1 Div S ItMm:
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  • 1294 16 SATURDAY Clms 1 Div. 2 220 M 1 General Trong IV 60 8 Cannon 56 2 Keep The Faith II 55 U Battle Toll 54 13 Air Marshal II 53.5 12 Helmsman 53.5 9 Motion Picture V 52.5 10 Think Oreat 52 14 Prince
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 331 16 r Crossword a J. ACROSS 1 Talker to a donkey 7 Radioactive ray 12 Mathematics course 13 Expensive tires 15 Try for a monopoly 17 Raise, as a flag 18 Conger catcher 19 Saint of films 20 Young rascal 21 Does in 22 Slot machine activator 23 Cotton fiber knot
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  • 395 17  -  Fencing By SHIRLEY TAN International fencer Mashuni Sabini is waiting for the "green light" from the Singapore Fencing Association to compete in the Oceanic Zone and World Championships in Australia next month. The Oceania competition is scheduled for Sydney from Aug 6 to 10 and the World
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  • Article, Illustration
    712 17  -  for the 15th Singapore international event BOWLING b v Brian Miller The countdown has begun for the 15th Singapore International bowling championships. And, with less than a month to go before the actual roll-off, the response from overseas has been very encouraging. According to Mr Ee Fook Choy of
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  • 255 18  -  Soccer By FAUZI OMAR Burma hit peak form last night and handed Singapore a 4-1 beating in their Merdeka tournament match at Merdeka stadium. Only the good goalkeeping of Edmund wee saved Singapore from a bigger defeat. It was Burma's best performace since the start
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  • 337 18  -  Athletics Byl SHIRLEY TAN Have you ever seen a pencil-slim boy clad in an Anglo Chinese Junior College tee-shirt and shorts, running along Bukit Timah Road? And, if you have been wondering who he is, then rest your mind. For he is none
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 70 18 OPENS ODEON TODAY! 5 SHOWS DAILY: 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 A 9.15pm A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY "DUKE" r-.% > y a i 4 4 (H i Sf 1 y nl l ■*>. i--r« iSSXZYI OMO OC LAURENTIS pmems a rHANMOMCM/SOf hoduttoi JOHN WAYNE LAUREN BACALL 9 IN A SllGtl
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 429 18 YOUR LUCKY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one who attempts always to reconcile what is, with what might have been You carry with you a certain nostalgia that not even the times of hilarity can entirely disperse. You love nothing better than being with others unless it
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  • What's On A page that tells you what's happening on TV and in town
    • 452 19 RTS to screen Rime of the Ancient Mariner "It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stops'st thou me?' With those lines, Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched into a poem known for its
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    • 275 19 You're never too old to marry but unfortunately this smiling wedding day picture is not what it seems. The old couple's smiles do not tell a romantic tale of love triumphing over age. The nave married in-*-stead because of a prosaic reason: they need
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 599 19 At the cinema CALIFORNIA SUITE: Neil Simon's hilarious film. Orchard: 1 JO, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. THE PARTY (re-run): One of Peter Sellers' zaniest films to date. Lld«: 1.45, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. JAGUAR LIVES: An adventure movie that takes place all around the world. Capitol: 1.30, 4,
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    • 644 19 In and around town CREATIVITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL arts and crafts exhibition at the National Museum Young People's Gallery till 7 p.m. On till July 15 Admission free. 3 Felicity Kendall as Wordsworth's sister Dolly with whom Coleridge later falls for. The film, which was also directed by Ken Russell
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    • 84 19 6.00 Opening Announcements and Programme Summary 6.05 Morning Prelude with Steve Gray and His Orchestra 6.30 News (E) 6.40 Morning Concert: Piano Concerto No.4 (Beethoven); Fantasy Op 77 (Beethoven), Paul Badura-Skoda (piano), Collegium Aureum; Sonata In B Minor Liszt), Van Cliburn piano) 8.00 News (C) 8.10 A Date With Kenny
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  • 63 20 AH POOR: So aU those fears of Skylab falling on us have turned out to be unfounded. What an'anti-climax for it to fall into the ocean. MEI UN: I still think we have had a close shave. Who can guarantee that future space objects will not choose us
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 763 20 TV AND RADIO SINGAPORE 5 700 million people in 43 countries can't be wrong. B9 TELEFUNKEN 3.M OPENING NOUNCEMENTSfoIIowed by STAB PERFORMANCE. S.S9 DIARY OF EVENTS (C). S.SS HOME SWEET HOME (r). Mandarin serial: 4.21 INTERMISSION. I.IS OPENING NOUNCEMENTSfoIIowed by WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS: Mink Pond. (M). IJ NEWS
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    • 201 20 r Today's top shows A THE PRIZEWINNERS: Rough Diamond. (Ch. 8, 7.45 p.m., in colour). This film retraces one day in the life of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 whilst he is at work on The Old Man and The Sea. m-j m L\: R«lf Harris...Ch. 5, 1.11 p.m. THE INNOVATORS:
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