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...Died. Bertram D. Wolfe, 81, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party in 1919 who later became a scholarly, vocal foe of Communism; of burns received when his clothing caught fire at home; in San Jose, Calif. As a Brooklyn high school teacher, Wolfe was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and became a Communist organizer and teacher. In 1929 he traveled to Moscow for the Third Communist International, where he jousted verbally with Stalin, Trotsky and Molotov. This temerity won him two months' detention; Wolfe's disillusionment with totalitarianism soon followed. He turned to historical examinations of Communism...
...director of the Office of Management and Budget, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, is managing three of President Carter's top-priority projects: balancing the budget by 1980, reorganizing the bureaucracy and preventing runaway inflation. Last week, as Lance weighed the final revisions of the fiscal 1978 budget, TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman called on him and sent this report...
...University has replaced the faulty pipes and radiators. Rugs sent out for cleaning returned yesterday. The students in Bertram had all been reinstated in their rooms by Tuesday night, Rulan C. Pian '44, master of South House said yesterday...
Frank A. Marciano, superintendent of Building and Grounds for the Quad area, said yesterday B&G personnel had checked Bertram the week before, but hadn't found anything amiss...
Rooms in parts of Bertram's second and third floors were flooded, and water had begun to leak through the ceiling of the living room on the first floor by the time the leaks were found...