Word: cherbourg
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...Missing from the Lincoln Center bill, however, were Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, winner of the 1964 Cannes Festival's Grand Prix, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, recent top choice of the judges at Venice...
...onetime rector of Frankfurt University and former No. 2 man in the West German Foreign Office, Hallstein is possessed of formidable erudition, but no one in his U.S. audiences last week had much difficulty in understanding what he was saying. Captured at Cherbourg during World War II service as a Wehrmacht lieutenant, Hallstein polished up his American vernacular in a P.W. camp in Mississippi. Conceded by all hands to be a skilled negotiator, he is a party-shunning bachelor who devotes twelve hours a day to his job and is held by many to be a dull fellow...
...NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...
...Charles Spencer, third* Duke of Marlborough, was the first to escape Sarah's whip hand, hailed his freedom with debts and extravagances totaling some half a million pounds. Charles died in 1758 in the Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from Cherbourg had given France's Duc 'Ai-guillon the exquisite triumph of sending after him "a vessel under a flag of truce to restore the Duke of Marlborough's silver teaspoons which he had left behind in his hurry...
...yesterday, Cassill had not decided what to do shout Cherberg, and the unhappy coach would not comment. He had done his best--defeating a team which later beat Notre Dame, and routing the Cougars of Washington State, the Huskies arch-rivals. It will be another bad sleep for Coach Cherbourg tonight but that's football, West Coast style