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...first time Professor Walter Hallstein visited the U.S., he was marched ashore at the point of an M1 carbine in 1944. He was a P.W., an owlish-looking Wehrmacht lieutenant captured at Cherbourg, and he was bound for the stockade at Camp Como, Miss. He didn't mind much. "It was like a monastery," he recalls, "an ideal place for study. No alcohol, no girls, no outside diversions...
...strategic withdrawal, Gabin retires to Cherbourg, where he owns a cafe and movie house, but the barmaid and complications follow him. Finally, Gabin packs his mistress off to Paris, gets the despairing young man a job as hairdresser on the Queen Mary and, happily resigned, leads the still-virtuous barmaid to the altar...
While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...
Meanwhile, Eurich and Wilson have kept on writing questions for TIME-readers - often from unlikely places such as just-captured Cherbourg, a pitching destroyer, the beach at Waikiki, and airplanes flying all over the world. Usually, each drafts a complete test, then, if possible, flies to a collaboration point. From there they send the resulting questionnaire to our staff for editing and checking. Its arrival often produces a spirited give & take between the editors and the educators, ending in a test...
...Cherbourg, where the American Importer was unloading the first shipment of arms to France, things were even quieter. A drab little female Communist turned up in the rain at the stevedores' hiring hall to hand out some leaflets urging the dockers not to unload imperialist weapons. A man in a raincoat tried to make a speech. The dockers paid no attention. They had already discussed the issue; only 21 of Cherbourg's 415 dockers had voted against working the ships with U.S. aid. "Cherbourg's example," said Defense Minister René Pleven as the last...