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...American Bar Association. "Nixon's resignation took the tension out of this meeting," said Lawyer Carl Nielson of Hartford, Conn. And after the tension went, the Pacific sun and balmy air apparently softened all remaining resolve. As a result, at one afternoon meeting a 200-member quorum could not be mustered for the first time in memory...
...three-day-a-week schedule. Members straggled into their seats on the two-tiered walnut dais in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, many often late for sessions that began at 9:30 a.m. and usually ended by 5:15 p.m. They had to recess for every quorum and roll call on the House floor, and also broke for 1¾-hr. lunches...
During the interregnum, Faculty meetings reflected the vacuum of leadership. Debates lengthened and wandered from the issues at question, without the influential voice of a permanent dean to direct the discussions. Meanwhile attendance rose and fell erratically, occasionally dropping below the number necessary for a quorum. The low attendance became enough of a problem to compel the creation of rules requiring the presence at meetings of department chairmen, House masters and certain other faculty...
Ironically the quorum problems of last year disappeared last week, at least temporarily. Tuesday, in the first meeting of the year, a standing-room only crowd of Faculty members filled the second floor chamber of University Hall to see the debut of their new dean, Henry Rosovsky...
...that its own schedule has been revised, the Faculty will discuss and probably vote on changing the academic calendar. But a simple call for the necessary quorum of 129 professors may block calendar revision now that the retirement plan debate is over and the older professors have returned again to their labs and Widener offices...