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After the carefully organized spree, Mossadeq summoned the Majlis to endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
...purpose or kinds of extra-curricular activity, the admissions process becomes a "highly individualized proposition," Gummere points out. This year a record number of personal interview reports were submitted, and each particular report must be evaluated in a different way. So big are today's problems that a quorum of the Committee on Admissions holds sessions almost daily from April through June...
...When it comes to appraising things like general seriousness of purpose or kinds of extra-curricular activity, the admissions process becomes a "highly individualized a proposition," Gummere points out. This year saw a record number of personal interview reports come in. So big are today's problems that a quorum of the Committee on Admissions holds session almost daily from April through June...
...majority of the quorum (half the student body) must vote "I approve. . ." after each statement to make it effective. Three petitions submitted to the Council last week automatically, by constitutional law, forced the student vote. Three additions and two deletions have been proposed...
There was a noisy wait of half an hour or so while bells rang to bring in enough members to form a quorum. Then the House put its sentiments unmistakably on the record, approved the resolution with a roar of "ayes,1- a scattering of almost inaudible "nays...