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...that her latest career turn "came about completely by accident" when a friend at a recording studio casually suggested that she try a voice test. It went so well that she agreed to make a single with one side in English called Irresistible and the other in French called Ouragan (that means Hurricane, but it is actually the same song). The record, which will soon be released in the U.S., has been out for five weeks and has sold 100,000 copies in France alone. Her lark as a thrush might lead next to making an album, says Stephanie...
...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...
...returned to Saint-Cloud to rebuild his factory (the aviation industry was then partially denationalized). With Marshall Plan aid he set up a modern plant. In two years he turned out 300 twin-engine Flamant passenger planes for the French air force and navy. Next he turned out the Ouragan (hurricane) jet fighter, landed a French air force order for 350, and began building the first of five new factories. When he brought out the Mystère (TIME, March 17, 1952), U.S. Air Force officers classed it with the F-84 and Russia's MIG-15, and from...
...track notorious for reversals of form, six races on one afternoon's program were won by the favorites: Maine Chance, Spoilt Beauty, My Boss, Torfrida, New Pin and Ouragan...
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