Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half in jest, the American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC) was "founded" by alphabet-weary scientists at the Office of Naval Research in 1952. AMSOC has about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which...
...civil rights bill for more than a month, was finally forced, by a signed petition from his own committee, to hold hearings. For days Southern Congressmen paraded their objections before Rules -and all the while Judge Smith kept counting committee noses. Finally one afternoon he found that no quorum was present -and down went his gavel. Missouri's Dick Boiling, leading the civil rights fight within Rules, realized he had been caught...
...though popularly unrecognized talent will be chosen is high." The high caliber of the appointees in this first year of the policy, coupled with the fact that only one man will be chosen from each House, make the appointment an item of considerable prestige, and thus should insure a quorum of able and disinterested men on the Council each year...
...Council to Study Disarmament last night considered merging or cooperating with other student groups interested in arms control--the Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy, the Liberal Union, and the Young Democratic Club. Only six Council members attended the meeting, which was unofficial for lack of a quorum...
Ibish claimed, however, that the non-Moslems themselves voted 26 to 1 against participating in the election of officers. "The election was perfectly legal, announced, and conducted with a quorum," he emphasized...