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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...
...that he had spells of marching about like a soldier and in some of his youthful plays he wrote for himself parts as Napoleon. He was (his father assured him) "conceived ... on one of the highest peaks of the Vosges, in the course of a journey from Luneville to Besançon"-and this, to Victor, was topographical confirmation of his title to eminence in life. His very name was a triumphant blend of conquest and personal identity, and his war cry was Ego Hugo! "If I had any doubt of my ability to take the foremost place...
...soft at the same time, like the Gospels." Swiss Architect Hermann Bauer praised it as "more like sculpture than a work of architecture." A band of gypsies, adept at mind reading, decided they liked the new chapel "because of its pure form and white color." Even Abbé Besançon confessed a change of heart: "I take back everything I said against the chapel. I think it is beautiful and believe people can pray...
...hand for the dedication, Le Corbusier proudly proclaimed: "The Christian drama has henceforth taken possession of this spot. I hand over to you this chapel made of loyal cement, molded with boldness, with courage ..." Replied Besançon's Archbishop Duchet: "I have the honor to bless the most modern chapel in the world...