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...three cases of Christian conversion, the Massachusetts rabbinical court decreed in March that a Jew who "joins the so-called Hebrew-Christians movement" has "betrayed his people" and has no right to a Jewish marriage or burial. The American Jewish Committee last month sent community leaders a more moderate memo, supporting freedom of conscience but warning that the surge of Christian evangelism among Jews is becoming a major interreligious problem. West Coast militants, for their part, have been breaking up Jewish Christian meetings...
...been hit by a public relations version of the domino effect: one charge against the company has led to an intensified examination by newsmen and politicians of just about everything the company is up to. The troubles began with the publication of the famous Dita Beard memo linking the company's offer to help bankroll this summer's Republican National Convention, through its Sheraton hotel chain, to the Government's settlement of a major antitrust suit against ITT. The settlement will force ITT to sell several companies but allows it to keep the big one it really...
...ripe apples. Testifying at Senate hearings, they have told confusing stories and committed some incredible gaffes. The most memorable, perhaps, was Vice President William R. Merriam's explanation of why he ordered ITT's Washington files fed into a paper shredder after publication of the Dita Beard memo. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin remarked that "you could not destroy that memo because you did not have it." Merriam's reply: "No, that is right, but there might have been a lot of others in there like that...
...correspondence begins straightforwardly enough on January 10, 1972 with a simple memo from Moos to Epps requesting Harvard facilities for "a Convention on Racism." (Note that in this early missive no preconceived normative judgements concerning racism are implied.) Little can be said about this opening volley; it would be unfair to infer a subtle threat when Moos continues the SDS tradition of relating better to administration buildings than to their occupants by saying: "I or other members of SDS would like to discuss costs and other arrangements with your office." One problem is that this is the only document...
Steve Farber, who later authored the Gulf Angola memo the Corporation used as the basis for its decision, sat through the whole presentation, and then telescoped the key point of what may prove to be the costly arrogant attitude of the Administration with his response. Farber said, "Well, black people don't have a monopoly on wisdom...