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Despite more than adequate advance notice, not even a quorum was present at the Faculty meeting. The chief reaction of Faculty was to counter use of force by students; they seemed to be saying, "Say, come on guys. Let's keep academic solidarity in the fight against the big, mean Federal government...
...meeting, which was billed as a forum for debates about the Kraus plan, failed to draw even a quorum...
...transportation. The House disapproved. After days of bargaining, the Senate-House conference committee reached a compromise-about $7 billion for highways plus $ 1 billion a year from general taxes for mass transit. House Republicans, apparently responding to Administration opposition to new tax burdens, scuttled that by calling for a quorum after most Congressmen had gone home. That meant, for the first time since the road-building program began in 1956, no new legislation at all for highway construction. In theory, highway funds will run out next spring, and the Congress will then be more amenable to opening up the Highway...
Approval of the Radcliffe Trustees, of course, is dependent on a quorum of its membership being present at today's meeting...
...previous election attempts were cancelled, the first on March 14 because members said that they did not know enough about the candidates. The second on April 14 was cancelled when HSA failed to muster a quorum...