Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harold S. Geneen. Among the plumbers' unit's activities was spiriting Dita Beard, a lobbyist for International Telephone and Telegraph, away from reporters inquiring into ITT's contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. The gifts were apparently intended to get an anti-trust suit dropped--as it later was, at Nixon's personal insistence. ITT's President Geneen should probably come to trial for bribery. But just as some of the alleged Watergate consirators should have been tried years ago for other matters--things like ordering illegal mass arrests of political dissenters, as John N. Mitchell did during...
...Communications Corp. seems like the last company likely to worry American Telephone and Telegraph...
...example, he cited the recent disclosures of the role of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in Chilean domestic politics and antitrust violations here...
...past 2% years, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. has been trying without success to find a buyer for its Levitt home-building business, which the giant conglomerate is under a Justice Department order to sell. Last week a buyer finally surfaced. He was none other than William J. Levitt, the 67-year-old creator of the celebrated Levittown instant suburbs, who sold the business to ITT in 1968. Levitt signed a letter of intent to take the company back and said that he will operate it as a privately owned concern under its original name of Levitt & Sons (ITT had called...
Vicious Circle. The shortage of women managers is only partly due to discrimination, Hennig and Jardim believe. On the basis of their experience as consultants to such corporations as New England Bell Telephone & Telegraph and the Columbia Broadcasting System, they have discovered that women are held back partly by their own passivity, partly by a vicious circle of misunderstandings. Men tend to assume that women are more interested in marriage or their children than in careers. Women, on the other hand, assume that they will be tolerated only if they are superefficient. So they become experts at one particular...