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...source of the charges was that well-known dealer in secret memos, Washington Columnist Jack Anderson. Last week Anderson published a summary of a personal memo, purportedly written by ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, that linked the favorable antitrust settlement with ITT's pledge to underwrite some of the convention costs. Addressed to William R. Merriam, head of ITT's Washington office, the memo refers to Mrs. Beard's accosting Attorney General Mitchell at a party thrown by former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn in Louisville after the 1971 Kentucky Derby...
Talking Freely. Mitchell had indicated to her, the memo said, that the settlement would turn out favorably for ITT. "Certainly the President has told Mitchell to see that things are worked out fairly," Mrs. Beard wrote. But, she warned Merriam, ITT officials were talking too freely about the $400,000 commitment, and if there was any more publicity, Mitchell might back away. So why didn't ITT put up the money and get its executives to shut up? The memo ends with the suggestion that Merriam destroy...
Anderson's charges and the memo set Washington buzzing with rumor and speculation. It was no secret in the capital that ITT had given $100,000 -through its subsidiary the Sheraton Corp.-to the G.O.P. and was considering giving more. It was also known that the money for the convention had been pledged only eight days before the Justice Department's favorable ruling. At the time, the department's Antitrust Division was under Richard McLaren, an exceptionally tough prosecutor who is now a federal judge in Chicago. The division had been furiously attacking ITT's earlier...
Meanwhile questions mounted concerning Mrs. Beard, who had dropped out of sight two days after Anderson published her memo. She had told a California Congressman that "where I'm going they won't be able to find me, and I won't be able to talk to them." Late last week, however, she was reported to be in the cardiac unit of the Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Center in Denver. Clearly Mrs. Beard, a divorcee of 53 with five children, and one of Washington's more colorful lobbyists, holds the key to many of the uncertainties surrounding...
...Standing Committee on Women--set up last Spring by the Committee on the Status of Women and passed by Faculty vote in May--also sent out a memo endorsed by Dean Dunlop to department heads which warned that in May Dunlop would ask each department head to show "the number of women in faculty positions" and what steps were taken to increase their number...