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Once again, control of the Harvard Cooperative Society has been passed down the line intact. The insurgent slate of directors proposed by Sheldon Dietz '41 was rejected without a vote when only 135 participating members, far fewer than the 1691 needed for a quorum, showed up at the Coop's annual meeting last night...
...cent of the card-carrying students and officers of the University attend the meeting, directors will be elected by a popular vote. Only Harvard students-no Cliffies-can vote. If a quorum is not achieved, the Coop's ten stockholders will chose the directors, and undoubtedly reject Dietz's candidates. John G. Merrill, general manager of the Coop, has estimated a quorum to be 1000 voters...
...quorum does not turn up, the Coop's 10 stockholders will elect the directors...
...quorum of voting members is not present the ten stockholders elect the directors...
...Senate last week blasted clear of its great reapportionment logjam. After six weeks of didactic debate, fulminating filibuster and mule-headed obstinacy on all sides, a quorum of weary Senators finally compromised, 44-38, on a "sense of Congress" resolution: federal courts are requested to grant a breathing spell to states reapportioning their legislative districts. In the soft est of language, the resolution asks that courts give the states at least one legislative session, plus an additional 30 days, to meet the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote requirements. But the "sense of Congress" really makes very little...