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...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, the Senate antitrust subcommittee, which an ITT lobbyist would certainly try to influence, had never heard...
...high seas, is due to dock at New Orleans this month with a cargo of Rhodesian chrome. The shipment violates the sanctions against trade with Rhodesia imposed by the United Nations Security Council in 1966 and marks the first time the U.S. has deliberately ignored its U.N. charter obligations...
Senator John F. Parker (R-Taunton) opposed the bill. He said Wednesday that any change in the charter of a city government should be made by people living in the city and "not by the politicians on Beacon Hill...
...that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." So said Oldenburg in a celebrated manifesto written in 1961, which came to be interpreted as one of the charter documents of Pop art. But the museum, like the kraken, envelops even those who defy it. Oldenburg, at 43, is one of the most avidly collected artists in America. The reasons have little to do with the Pop ballyhoo of the early '60s; firmly independent of movements, he has been trying for the past six years to get clear of the narrow...
...impressive as the YAK may be, it is hardly an immediate threat to U.S. aviation superiority. The Soviets have been slow to deliver: two of the three YAKs ordered by the Italian charter airline Aertirrena two years ago have not yet been received. The delay is caused partly by local aviation authorities, who must certify new models as to airworthiness before allowing them to enter service. The Soviets only recently allowed Italian and West German inspectors to visit all the YAK component factories necessary for certification...