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Stephen P. Roose '70 and David L. Kirp, instructor in Economics and an opposition candidate, have launched an investigation into the membership figures the Coop used to define the quorum. Roose plans to obtain today the membership list used from John G. Morrill, Coop General Manager...
...Senate, however, wily Minor ity Leader Everett Dirksen reversed the procedure by stationing a page outside the doors to send Republicans away. Lacking a quorum of 51 the Senate was stymied, and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield finally signaled defeat 1 TV debates...
...Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each requiring roughly 30 minutes), Speaker John McCormack finally locked the doors for the first time since 1917. With a captive quorum, Democrats were able to ram the measure through...
Sometime this week the opposition slate will meet for the first time as a group to formulate its strategy and ideas. It faces the challenge of co-ordinating a campaign to 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...
...attempt to unseat the stockholders' proposed slate, Morrill said yesterday. In 1964. Sheldon Dietz '41, owner of the now defunct Club 47, put forth a six-man slate of architects. His proposal aborted, however, since he did not have the architects' consent and failed to get anywhere near a quorum...