Word: besan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language classes. To overcome the shortage of French instructors, he talked the French Ministry of Education into assigning some of its own teachers to Air Force schools, coaxed from the Ministry an offer of 35 scholarships to a seminar for French language teachers this summer at the University of Besançon. A recent Defense Department survey of dependents' schooling overseas found the general system to be riddled with shortcomings, but cited John Carpenter's persistent, polyglot language program as "deserving unique commendation...
...world's largest watchmaker (1962 sales: $74.5 million). Last year one out of every three of the 23 million watches sold in the U.S. was a Timex. The company has become so cocksure about the attractions of its watches that it has just opened a plant in Besançon, France, just half an hour's ticking distance from the Swiss border, and hopes to take over a third of Common Market watch sales...