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...return for an ITT offer of up to $400,000 to help defray the cost of the Republicans' 1972 national convention in San Diego (later switched to Miami). Columnist Jack Anderson published an ITT memorandum last year that appeared to substantiate the charge. But before ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, the author of the memo, could give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she was spirited off to Colorado-reportedly by the White House "plumbers"-and was said to be too ill to be interviewed at the time. Last week the Ervin committee gained possession of a White House memorandum...
...stood ready to underwrite with cash any efforts the CIA might be considering to prevent the election of Salvador Allende, Chile's Marxist President. At home-if such a cozy term can be used for a multinational-ITT provided an early trickle to the Watergate. ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard's secret memo found its way into Jack Anderson's column, where it told of a $400,000 pledge for the 1972 Republican Convention. All this occurred shortly before the Justice Department settled an antitrust action against...
...spiriting to Denver of ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, whose memo had linked a lenient antitrust settlement by the Justice Department against ITT with an ITT pledge to provide funds for the Republican National Convention...
...Harold S. Geneen, chairman of the board of ITT, perhaps the most imperialist of U.S. corporations. Aside from trying to topple the socialist government of Chilean President Salvador Allende, Geneen, via Dita Beard, seems to have bedded down comfortably with the Nixon Administration. ITT's rise to industrial preeminence was accompanied by all sorts of shadiness, even beyond what one has come to expect from American big business...
...handsome face with the jaunty beard and mustache was vaguely and sadly familiar. A cache of newly discovered photographs, handed down by a friend of one of the Czarina's ladies in waiting, includes one of Czar Nicholas II, canoeing with his son, Czarevich Alexis, and another of the Czar's two youngest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia. The specter of their Romanov majesties was also unexpectedly raised in London by Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe...