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...Quorum. Kadar flatly rejected, one by one, virtually every demand the workers' councils had made upon his government. He refused to bring former Premier Imre Nagy back into the government. He could not see his way clear to allowing the establishment of more political parties "under prevailing circumstances." (His own Communist Party, under a new name, the Socialist Workers, had been unable to muster a quorum at some meetings, and in the Csepel metalworks, once known as "Red Csepel," the party has so far enrolled only 360 out of 38,000 workers...
...situation range all the way from the ridiculous to the fundamental. Some lowans are against Hoegh because a bumptious, publicity-seeking television performer named Dagmar once bulged through his outer office, bussed the governor and then loped on up to the legislature, where she darned near kissed a quorum. Others are against him on the basic issue that he has raised taxes. Some farmers oppose him because they do not like the Eisenhower Administration's farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet, steady people of Iowa...
Angry Liberals, bent on keeping Winner Ponce out of office, staged an uprising in Manabi province, and Liberal Deputies tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...
...words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he was coming; there were only twelve Senators on the floor, and it was too near lunch time to round up a quorum. Apologetically Walter George hustled Pineau off to lunch with Senate leaders and several members of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Controlled Glee. Southern Democrats are stony-faced before these rattlings from the North. In Washington, Southern Congressmen, fighting to keep the House Judiciary Committee from voting out the Administration's civil-rights bill, forced the committee to break up four times in a single day to answer quorum calls in the House itself. Next day, by meeting before the House was in session, a coalition of Republicans and Northern Democrats succeeded in pushing through approval of the bill and passing it on to the Rules Committee (whose Southern members are likely to succeed in holding up action...