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...resemblance was sufficient, in fact, to launch Mireille on a career that has become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face...
...area is a shambles. Gas and elec tric pipes litter the landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start...
...heart once more explodes into action the voyagers are hurled into even more photogenic adventures. To replenish their air supply, they snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...
SWEET CHARITY. As Toulouse-Lautrec memorialized the cancan girls of Pans, Director Bob Fosse celebrates the taxi dancers of New York with stylish staging and sophisticated choreography. Owen Verdon is a terpsichorean tornado as a gal who has a lot of love to give-if she could only find a taker...
...tornado struck directly at Burnett's Mound. Then, in contrast with the hop-and-skip progression of most twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...