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...though popularly unrecognized talent will be chosen is high." The high caliber of the appointees in this first year of the policy, coupled with the fact that only one man will be chosen from each House, make the appointment an item of considerable prestige, and thus should insure a quorum of able and disinterested men on the Council each year...
...Council to Study Disarmament last night considered merging or cooperating with other student groups interested in arms control--the Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy, the Liberal Union, and the Young Democratic Club. Only six Council members attended the meeting, which was unofficial for lack of a quorum...
Ibish claimed, however, that the non-Moslems themselves voted 26 to 1 against participating in the election of officers. "The election was perfectly legal, announced, and conducted with a quorum," he emphasized...
...possibility also arose that Winans would try to enlist enough Council support so that if he is denied permission to speak tonight, at least seven members will walk out of the meeting, leaving Leland without a quorum...
...civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another meeting for that afternoon-knowing full well that most committee members would be tied up with business on the House floor, e.g., appropriations for the Health, Education and Welfare Department. He waited around for an hour, owlishly recessed the hearing when no quorum showed...