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There was one particularly intriguing chapter in the week's testimony. Last month Jack Anderson's assistant, Brit Hume, had appeared in ITT's Washington office and showed the original of the Beard memo to Mrs. Beard and her boss, ITT Vice President W.R. Merriam. According to Geneen and ITT Senior Vice President Howard Aibel, the Washington staff was ordered "to remove any documents that were no longer needed for current operations, as well as documents which, if put into Mr. Anderson's possession, could be misused and misconstrued by him so as to cause embarrassment...
Then came Dita Beard's disavowal of the memo that Anderson had published. That claim seemed at best peculiar, since Anderson's assistant had showed her the memo three weeks before, giving her plenty of time to denounce it. If the memo was a fake, why did ITT go to the trouble of shredding its documents in Washington? Early on, ITTs defenders went to some lengths to portray Mrs. Beard as a sometimes irrational incompetent. Having first tried to discredit her, they are hard pressed to defend what she says...
Name Dropping. Some fellow lobbyists in Washington believe that if the memo was a fake, it was one perpetrated by Mrs. Beard. Among the lobbying fraternity in the capital, where salaries for such work often climb to six figures, Dita Beard was virtually unknown; she earned only $30,000 and lived in a modest house in nearby Arlington, Va. Important lobbyists entertain in baronial houses, charter airplanes, give lavish cocktail parties. Dita Beard lived more like a suburban schoolteacher. Once a year, in ITT's name, she gave a small Christmas cocktail party for 30 or 40 people. Curiously...
...investigators onto the case, but Democrats Tunney and Edward Kennedy have been bearing down with insistent questions that have increasingly aroused pro-Administration Republicans in the Senate. Kentucky Senator Marlow Cook last week charged that Anderson's secretary, Opal Ginn, was an old drinking companion of Dita Beard. It turned out, however, that they had only happened to be at the same party once at a Washington hotel...
When Hughes arrived in Vancouver, according to Canadian Customs Officer John Jackson, he was wearing pajamas, robe and slippers. Unaccountably, Jackson said that Hughes was wearing only a thin mustache and not the Vandyke beard that Shelton said he had when he left Nicaragua. "He looked weary and tired," with a thin, lined face and graying hair slicked back, Jackson said. An aide told customs authorities that Hughes would probably not stay in Canada more than three months, the maximum allowed for visitors without visas. Hughes was spared one routine question directed at arrivals in Canada: no one asked...