Lobbyist Alleges Forged Memo Ties ITT to Convention
Washington AP reporting that ITT lobbyist Dita Beard claims an Anderson memo linking ITT’s convention funding to antitrust settlements is a forgery. Beard says she wrote a different interoffice note. Senate panel to pursue sworn testimony. Beard ill in Denver hospital.
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Washington
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Jack Anderson
ITT
Dita Beard
Anderson
Ment
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Beard
Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital
Denver
David Fleming
Hugh Scott
W. R. Merriam
San Diego
John) Mitchell
Fleming
Mitchell
Richard G. Kleindienst
Harold S. Geneen
Brit Hume
Mass Transit Gets Attention
Washington report notes three quarters of interstate miles built and calls for diverting highway funds to mass transit. Ford, Woodcock, Volpe back transit. Sizey projects like a Chicago expressway face high costs while urban reforms gain momentum and new transportation research promoted.
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Washington
Mobile Oil Corp
Ford
Henry Ford II
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers Union
Woodcock
Senate Commerce Committee
Chicago
Theodore W. Kheel
Highway Action Coalition
Congress
Senate
Septuplets' Hope Fails as Three Daughters Die
In Santa Clara California doctors failed to save any of seven babies born to a couple after four years on fertility treatment. Three infant girls survived briefly but died at Stanford and Kaiser facilities. The sextet began 22 weeks premature with births on Friday.
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Santa Clara
Calif
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto
Kaiser Foundation
Anthony Damore
San Jose
Damore
San Francisco Peninsula
SBI Fears For Safety Of Morgan
The State Bureau of Investigation is taking steps to ensure the safety of Attorney General Robert Morgan while it investigates a life threat. SBI Director Charles J. Dunn said information about a threat was received about a week earlier and that details could not be released to avoid interfering with the investigation. Morgan was not available for comment.
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Raleigh
N.C
State Bureau of Investigation
Atty
Robert Morgan
SBI
Charles J. Dunn
Dunn
Morgan
Fill Dirt Sale Under Probe Involving Road Officials Brother
North Carolina Attorney General Robert Morgan said his office is investigating a report that the brother of a state Highway Commission member sold fill dirt to two road contractors. The Raleigh News and Observer cited $35,250 in dirt sold to Renfro Construction Co. and Barnhill Contracting Co. The commissioner said he did not profit but might have negotiated a sale, with ownership ties to property near Greenville.
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Raleigh (Ap
Robert Morgan
State Highway Commission
Morgan
Raleigh News and Observer
Tripp
W. Arthur Tripp
C. B. Renfro Construction Co
Goldsboro
Barnhill Contracting Co., Inc
Renfro
The
News and Observer
Pitt County Register of Deeds
Government Tightens Anti Hijack Measures Across Agencies
The Nixon administration moves on two fronts to curb air crimes. Major airports must file comprehensive security plans with the FAA within 90 days, while all 93 US attorneys are ordered to push for speedy hijack and bomb threat prosecutions.
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Washington
Transportation Department
Justice Department
Airport Operators Council International
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Richard G. Kleindienst
Nixon
Stabbing Sparks Prison Rampage at Walpole Facility
About 150 inmates at Walpole State Prison burned the library and damaged furniture after a stabbing of a black inmate. Authorities reported racial overtones. 100 plus troopers responded but did not enter. One inmate, Ronald Stokes, 22, of Boston, was hospitalized in fair condition after surgery for a back stab wound.
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Walpole
Mass
Walpole State Prison
Foxboro
Correction
John Boone
Mel Bernstein
State Office of Human Services
Ronald Stokes
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Stokes
Boone
Bernstein
Alaska man mourns wife killed by harsh Arctic life
Mike Holland, 29, a Alaska widower, recalls the death of his wife Sue during a snow machine trek from Stevens Village. She froze to death near their Yukon River cabin as blizzard cold and gear failures left her stranded. Holland plans to return north to raise their infant son and rebuild a trapping life in isolation.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Mike Holland
Yukon River
Arctic Circle
Associated Press
United States
Sue Holland
Stevens Village
Holland
Havertown
Alabama
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James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Williams Cummings
St. Patrick’s
Ruth Doughterty
St. Patrick's Day
Andrew Celli
Rochester
N.Y
Commerce Committee
Sen
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
John Volpe
Sue
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