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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, he quickly made up his mind: liberal. Over the next six years Keating established a Senate roll-call record next only to that of Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, but still managed to hop the shuttle to New York two, three and four times a week to attend a bar mitzvah, a Negro Elks meeting, a Roman Catholic communion breakfast. He kept his face before his constituents with a regular radio-television show, Senate Report, carried on 36 New York stations. And he kept his name in print with his disclosures of Russian missile bases in Cuba...
...Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, senior partner in Manhattan's Goldman Sachs & Co. and once a director of 35 companies (he has cut it to six), all this corporate tolerance is no laughing matter. Annual meetings are becoming a "circus," says Weinberg, thanks to "publicity-seeking characters who attend primarily to ask impertinent, irrelevant, sometimes abusive questions. This kind of behavior must be stopped right now, before stockholders lose respect for management. The vast majority of stockholders resent these characters. I was delighted when many companies that dispensed free lunches and free products at meetings stopped...
...cent of the card-carrying students and officers of the University attend the meeting, directors will be elected by a popular vote. Only Harvard students-no Cliffies-can vote. If a quorum is not achieved, the Coop's ten stockholders will chose the directors, and undoubtedly reject Dietz's candidates. John G. Merrill, general manager of the Coop, has estimated a quorum to be 1000 voters...
...effect, these students participate in the same sort of adolescent fantasy-power life. They are Harvard's Walter Mittys; many are also wonks of varying descriptions. Meek Milquetoasts in reality, they attend Albert Finney or Belmondo or James Bond movies on nights off from Lamont. Identifying powerfully with their heroes, they sneer at themselves in the men's room mirror of the Harvard Square Theatre during intermission...
These nominees, and the stockholders' slate of directors, will be presented at the Coop's annual membership meeting, next Wednesday at 5 p.m. In Harvard Hall. Before an election can be held, however, ten per cent of the Coop's voting members must attend the meeting. The voting membership is restricted to' students and officers of the University...