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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draw a quorum of eligible voting members to the general membership meeting next Wednesday afternoon. The Coop by-law define a quorum as five per cent of the participating members of Harvard, M.I.T., and the Episcopal Theological School, or a little more than 1500 members. If, as in the past 85 years, not enough members show up, the stockholders' slate will automatically be elected. It appears likely, however, that if the Coop can secure a large enough meeting hall, the alternative slate, through concentrated promotion, will attract a quorum...
When he begins to speak of the war itself, its past, its future, McGuire uses phrases which seem slightly trite on paper, but which are probably just the honest opinions of an Irishman who has been around a bit. "It's just like any other war," he says, "they never solve anything, it never does any good." The war's origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention...
...McGuire takes out his crumpled, purplish U.S. passport, which has $10 bills folded between the pages. He flips past an April 22 exit stamp from Rwanda, and points out a page filled with exit and entry stamps from Lisbon, with no intervening destination stamps--the souvenirs of his clandestine flights. Then, with a little chuckle, he stuffs it back into his flight suit pocket. It won't stay there long, you might guess...
...obstacle to quick administration approval last spring was RUS's insistence on regular, non-voting membership on the College Council, Radcliffe's highest decision-making body. This would have made communication easier and more direct than in the past, when they were limited to various student-faculty committees. Regularization of student participation in the Council remains one of RUS's top priorities...
Packwood is everything that Morse isn't: he's predictable, pragmatic, somewhat superficial, and in supreme contrast to Morse, bland. As Morse reflects the past, Packwood symbolizes Modern Oregon--the freeways along the Columbia, the Manhattan-like skyscrapers of down-town Portland. Packwood is a progressive Republican, somewhat along the lines of Illinois' Senator Percy. He descends from Oregon's blue-blood establishment, and offers Oregonians a staid, mildly progressive alternative to Morse's turbulent Senate career...