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...plea for special treatment came from a staunch conservative friend and West European ally, so President Reagan was happy to comply. He made a date in his appointment calendar, and this week the White House will roll out its best red carpet for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The one-day working visit will be used by Kohl to fill Reagan in on the latest Franco-German efforts to promote West European political unity and on Bonn's views of East-West relations. But that does not fully explain the Chancellor's eagerness to become the first major...
...China it will be the Year of the Ox, but in American bookstores, gift and stationery shops, 1985 may just become the Year of the Calendar. Some 1,500 different wall and desk versions, including a circular pop-up of flowers and ones with detachable postcards, celebrating everything from cats to Culture Club, are being snapped up at a phenomenal pace. Some favorites have earned second press runs; 250,000 Trivial Pursuit (QuillMark) calendars sold out in the U.S. and Canada in a month, and Cabbage Patch Kids (Abrams) has been bought by 1.4 million doll lovers. Says Michael Ritz...
...reason for the shopping spree is that calendars are bargains, costing from $4.95 for wall models to $14.95 for desk versions. Another factor: freebies from local merchants and major companies are disappearing. Cost-conscious Chemical Bank, for instance, gave away 550,000 calendars in its New York branches in 1982 but has printed less than half that number this year. Calendars are becoming personal statements. "There's no such thing as the family calendar any more," says Paul Gottlieb, president of Harry N. Abrams, which publishes seven calendars. "Everyone in the family has to have one, and they have...
...Harvard calendar tradition has struck again. Last year, seemingly more worshipful of tradition than even Zero Mostel, the University simply could not uproot Commencement from the 38th Thursday to accomodate its conflict with a Jewish religious holiday. Move Commencement? Start the year earlier to afford a longer Reading Period? Would such radicalism really send John Harvard's statue racing around the Yard...
...emasculation seems an unnecessary blow to a failing institution; extra lectures, labs and reading assignments already threaten to obliterate the distinction between Reading Period and any ten days in October. Explaining the demise of the once sacred fourteen days, officials can only shrug and point to a capricious calendar. "The fall term" Registrar Margaret E. Law said this week, "is a real mess because of Christmas and New Year's. If the term starts late in September, then technically reading period should start before New Year's but Christmas is Christmas and New Year's is New Year...