Word: cherbourg
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...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
...Poverty. Meanwhile, partly because of its paltry teacher salary scale ($85 to $420 a month), the nation faces an eventual shortage of at least 20,000 teachers. The Rennes school system spent months trying to find 35 qualified instructors in mathematics and natural history. A typical secondary school in Cherbourg spent two years looking for a physics teacher, and in 1954 Paris was short 160 science teachers. But of all of France's educational headaches, poverty is, in a sense, the least. The major problem that the ministry was facing last week: the very nature of the school system...
...like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer's pass.) After the Germans surrendered at Cherbourg, Capa was trying to photograph an arrogant Nazi general who turned his back to Capa and said haughtily that he was "bored" with the freedom of photographers. Needled Capa: "And I am bored with photographing defeated German generals." Angrily, the general wheeled around, and Capa got just the shot he wanted...
...still the one & only boss. Any public official under Trujillo may suffer an occasional, penitential spell of unemployment; Rubi's turn has obviously come. For a while, he will have to get along without the magic diplomatic passport, will have to let the customs officers of New York, Cherbourg and other way stations muss his socks and shirts. Then, his cafe-society pals confidently believe, he will be restored to diplomacy and the work for which he is so well fitted...
...next" assignment was Newport, R.I., as instructor to a group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...