Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Graham compounding their already complex problems, such as local fund raising, hotel space and the shadow of the ITT affair, the Republicans reluctantly abandoned San Diego, Richard Nixon's "lucky city" and sentimental first choice. The logical alternative seemed to be Miami Beach, where the Democrats will caucus beginning July 10. An immediate problem was a Buick dealers' convention, slated for the August slot the Republicans were loath to change. Buick quickly agreed to move, and will likely end up in San Diego, where the prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have...
...Harvard voted against or abstained on every other proxy resolution. It rejected an AT&T resolution similar to the Ford one which called for a broadened board. It voted against two other GM resolutions. The University sided with management against proposals to create committees within Honeywell, Sperry Rand and ITT to supervise the transition from warrelated production to peacetime manufacture...
RADICALS HAVE traditionally, and accurately, pointed to the economic dynamics of American and world capitalism as being the prime movers behind an expansionist foreign policy. But to say that a nation dominated by GM and ITT exists in an atmosphere where those in power believe the international expansion of American business to be consonant with the wellbeing of all Americans is very different from claiming that the presidents of those corporate giants have an active role in deciding America's day-to-day foreign policy. We face in the realm of foreign policy--especially in the Southeast Asian nightmare...
...Europe and Latin America, where much of ITT's business consists of selling communications equipment to state-owned telephone systems, the emphasis is on cultivating government officials. Latin American public relations are headed by Harold ("Hal") Hendrix, a onetime Scripps-Howard newsman who won a Pulitzer Prize for his disclosure of the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba, and has close ties with the Central Intelligence Agency. Columnist Jack Anderson's revelations of ITT's involvement in Chile's politics are based on memos written largely by Hendrix and Robert Berrellez, a former Associated Press reporter...
...measure, ITT's public relations operation is big, experienced, industrious. The most remarkable thing is that it could not foresee or prevent the worst public relations crisis in the company's history...