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...source of the charges was that well-known dealer in secret memos, Washington Columnist Jack Anderson. Last week Anderson published a summary of a personal memo, purportedly written by ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, that linked the favorable antitrust settlement with ITT's pledge to underwrite some of the convention costs. Addressed to William R. Merriam, head of ITT's Washington office, the memo refers to Mrs. Beard's accosting Attorney General Mitchell at a party thrown by former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn in Louisville after the 1971 Kentucky Derby...
Talking Freely. Mitchell had indicated to her, the memo said, that the settlement would turn out favorably for ITT. "Certainly the President has told Mitchell to see that things are worked out fairly," Mrs. Beard wrote. But, she warned Merriam, ITT officials were talking too freely about the $400,000 commitment, and if there was any more publicity, Mitchell might back away. So why didn't ITT put up the money and get its executives to shut up? The memo ends with the suggestion that Merriam destroy...
...federal judge in Chicago. The division had been furiously attacking ITT's earlier acquisition of several major companies, including the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Several stories about the "coincidence" of the division's subsequent favorable ruling had run in the Washington press. But it took Mrs. Beard's memo and Anderson's columns to show a direct link between the settlement and the ITT gift...
...which vignettes of Trotsky's career are staged against the moments leading up to the assassination. In England, a new version of that Communist calvary is being written by Novelist Nicholas Mosley, and Director Joseph Losey is filming Trotsky's last days. Richard Burton, in spade beard and granny glasses, is playing the lead...
...three women." Thus did a Cambridge friend many years ago describe Nubar Gulbenkian, the high-loving millionaire who died last week at 75 in Cannes, where he was being treated for a heart ailment. Resembling a Mephistophelean Santa Clans with his portly form, thick black eyebrows, fluffy white beard and twinkling eyes, Gulbenkian spent his life in a relentless chase after pleasure. "I believe in comfort. I enjoy everything I do," he said...