Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, Greeks and Turks fell to major fighting. On Kathara Theftera (first day of Lent in the Greek Orthodox calendar), well-wined Greek Cypriots met up with Turkish Cypriots in the village of Vasilia, staged a free-for-all which injured 21 people. Fearful of demonstrations on Greece's issth Day of Independence, Field Marshal Harding put the main towns of the island under curfew for the whole day, i.e., confined 165,000 Cypriot people to their homes. At week's end, while British police were still searching for Neophytos Sophocleous, Sir John Harding discharged his remaining...
...Council's plan would lengthen the break between terms by at least three days, the extra day being taken from the spring term reading period. The CEP is expected either to support the calendar revision without modification or to advise its outright defeat...
Many solutions to the dangers inherent in the "law's delay" have been suggested, ranging from abolition of the jury trial for civil cases to setting up non-judicial procedures for automobile litigation, which composes up to 90 percent of the calendar backlog. One of the most successful of these methods is the pre-trial conference between judge and lawyers. Here the issues are informally exposed, and the judge can familiarize himself with the case. If the conflict cannot be settled out of court, the trial, at least, can then proceed without routine delays...
...alternate suggestion to begin the fall term earlier instead of cutting the reading period was rejected primarily because it would involve major revision of the school calendar...
...Radcliffe statement on the vacation issue coincide with the Harvard Student Council's conclusion since the Administration's final decision will affect both colleges. The Harvard Council will meet tonight to consider the results of last Thursday's student opinion poll, and to take a stand on the proposed calendar revision...