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...suggested that it would like a short-range jet. While U.S. airframe companies stalled, British Aircraft, which had the One-Eleven on its drawing boards, built in the features that American wanted-with no promise of an order. Just to please Customer Pan Am, Dassault willingly redesigned its Mystère 20* to make it larger and switched to General Electric turbofan jet engines. If such aggressiveness continues and U.S. framemakers offer no better fight, the U.S. could be toppled from the position of planemaker to the world, which it has held ever since the first DC-3 lumbered down...
...TIME, May 17). In a rare joke with his audience, Solal risked a Franco-American pun last year by composing a parody of his own music and calling it Mystère Solal...
Despite the sorry sales record, the planemakers are gamely pushing ahead. Besides Lockheed, corporate jets are being built by North American, Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa...
Rambling along the Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...
...midnight Nasser knew by telephone from his Paris embassy that the Mystère report was correct. All next day he thundered in speech after speech to his soldiers about "the West's continuing conspiracy," without attacking the U.S. by name. He announced the formation of a "huge" Palestinian army inside the Egyptian army, recruited among the 220,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Back in Cairo, 38-year-old Premier Nasser cried dramatically: "I have witnessed a turning point in the Middle East...