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...second wife. The first, Egyptian Princess Fawzia, was Farouk's sister; he divorced her in 1948 for failure to bear...
During the next two years she collected some famous four-in-hands-Farouk's, Errol Flynn's, Governor Dewey's, Aly Khan's. When Maurice Chevalier told her she must leave her little cafe for bigger things, she obeyed. Patachou likes big rooms and big crowds. Says she: "If they are a good audience, I have a good time. But if I am excited and they are not excited, then I feel like I am the only one in the room and there...
...Allah Akhbar, Allah Akhbar. Then paratroops, Egypt's first, jumped into Heliopolis race track. "We have the means," cried Naguib, "to throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army moved last year against King Farouk, 101 guns boomed across the brooding Nile. Four hours later, a great crowd gathered with Naguib to hear the muezzin chant familiar verses from the Koran. Then, as the sun came up, they knelt in humility with their faces towards Mecca...
...Year. For the dedicated Ruling Twelve of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), for Naguib, its elder counselor and front man, for 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, its spark and driving power, it had been a good year. King Farouk, the monarchy, the political parties and the corruption had gone. Land reform was coming, confused but coming. Crops were good, and cotton exports were up one-third over last year. But the green young army officers of the RCC had no easy solution for Egypt's basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number...
...celebrate their first anniversary, the Ruling Twelve invited 81 newspapermen from 49 countries. The visitors could see for themselves that the Blessed Movement had come a long way from the unmourned era of Farouk, but still had a long...