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...Unless a quorum of five per cent of Coop members from Harvard-Radcliffe, M.I.T., and the Episcopal Theological Seminary attend the Oct. 23 meeting, the slate submitted by the ten Coop stock-holders will automatically be accepted for the year. Between 1400 and 1500 will have to attend the meeting to assure balloting for the new slate, Roose said yesterday...
John G. Morrill, general manager of the Coop, said yesterday, "If these kids intend to try for a quorum, I wish they'd come in and tell us. So far all we've had is rumor. We're certainly not attempting to keep anyone from running, but if 1500 people try to jam into Sever 35, it will look as if we're keeping them out and we're not. We have nothing to hide...
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally the mildest of men, was beside himself. "Outrageous!" he stormed. "We are, by our accomplishments, making the Senate look ridiculous, picayune and incompetent to handle the business of the people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole...
Neither the committee's three faculty members nor two deans were present at yesterday's meeting, which had been postponed from Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday. But a quorum of student members attended and after a short discussion voted unanimously to draft the letter to Dean Watson...
...been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee ever since President Johnson sent the nomination to the Senate on June 26. Last week, as Congress reconvened after the conventions, the committee was once again scheduled to consider his appointment. This time, its members did not even field a quorum to review the issue...