Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer in charge of university entrance examinations at Cambridge said tolerantly: "This proposal has been brought up intermittently for over the last 100 years. I don't imagine the arguments have changed much." The proposal: drop Cambridge's stringent entrance rule requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among...
...Greek side definite progress has been made towards a solution. Enosis has been dropped and an independent Cyprus is now being talked of both by the Greek Government and by Archbishop Makarios. The repeated talks between Selwyn Lloyd and premier Karamanlis certainly represent progress over the situation a short three years ago when diplomatic relations were all but terminated between Athens and London. In the UN five years ago Greece failed to get the Cyprus item on the agenda for debate, and they were talking of enosis. Last year the Greek resolution for self-determination got a majority...
...that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation to work towards genuine safeguards for the minority of the island who have always lived at peace with the Greek Cypriots...
There were seventeen problems: money; passports; tetanus-typhoid-yellow fever shots; a Greek landlady bearing an expensive product (Snyde would say, Beware! I hated him); reservations on a plane carrying ginger ale to be served with Dramamine at Gander; German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the Swiss Alps; Greek for the return voyage...How else could we preserve the rapture of passion which comes when you eat pastry at the Patisserie Cafe Morceau beside the girl you love...
This raises the prospect of involved legal tangles in U.S. courts. Last week, when American and Greek owners of foreign-flag vessels sought injunctions to halt picketing, judges differed on what rights they were entitled to. Wrote London's Financial Times: "The international labour boycott is a dangerous and, in principle, undesirable practise; on the other hand, these shipowners have deliberately put themselves outside national loyalties and cannot claim their protection. They cannot ask for the benefit of responsibilities they do not accept, or of taxes they...