Word: mentone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...
...Menton, Yale attackman, opened the scoring at 10:42 of the first period. Maclay Hyde of the varsity's midfield retaliated by sinking the ball at 12:10, only to be followed shortly by a second Yale tally. After two rapid points scored by the Crimson in the next quarter, the Elis were trailing 3 to 2. But then the varsity defense began to crumble. Yale tallied three easy goals before ending the first half...
...Benedetto Gepponi, 68, an Italian laborer. In his youth he had journeyed to the U.S., but he did not make his fortune. After a while he came home and married an Italian girl. They settled in southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
Tourist lucky enough not to be on fixed!, prepaid tours fled northern France and England to find the sun in Spain, Italy and the CÔte d'Azur. "From Menton to Marseille, hotels were hanging out the "Complet" (full up) signs, often socking the dollar-heavy tourist as much as $9 a day for back rooms without running water. Nice and Cannes, sunny as usual, were so solidly booked that many late arrivals had to go 20 miles into the mountains to find a bed. Budget-minded travelers discovered a more economical sun-drenched paradise in Spain, where...
Last summer the camp obtained the Ecole du Sacre-Coeur at Menton for its site, a convenient spot because it is near the seashore and inside town. Three Harvard students, Edwin L. Francis '49, David L. Auerbach '52, and Robert F. Lawson '52, served as members of the camp's staff...