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...selected Cyrus Vance, 59, an urbane, methodical, Yale-educated Manhattan lawyer who had been Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration and a familiar figure in and around U.S. foreign policy for more than a decade. At the same time, Carter also announced that a close personal friend, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, a bulky (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), blunt-speaking banker and college dropout from the mountains of north Georgia, would direct his Office of Management and Budget (TIME, Dec. 6). For all their sharp differences in background and style, Vance and Lance (reporters who had impatiently awaited...
...prefer to surround themselves with people they like and trust and whose ideas closely parallel their own. This week Jimmy Carter is expected to name to one of the top economic posts in his Administration an imposing (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), voluble, roughhewn Georgia banker named Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, who not only is a close friend but whose no-nonsense ways and conservative fiscal views match Carter's own. The most likely bet for the slot he will fill: director of the Office of Management and Budget, a job that would seem to coincide with...
...Bertram Fireston's three-year-old has done it all so far, winning at every asking and impressively at that. Though lightly raced in his young career, Honest Pleasure has yet to be really tested in any of his races, lending credence to the belief that he is every bit as good as his Racing Form chart indicates...
...scarred from the market bust of the early 1970s to take another chance. "The Government keeps telling me that the economy is better, and that makes me all the more suspicious," says Harvey Goldstein, a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Los Angeles Advertising Executive Bertram Gader says that the heavy institutional trading frightens him: 'The individual investor has no idea of what is going on and gets the feeling that the market is being manipulated." Atlanta Businessman Dick Fetsko, who lost on past stock purchases, observes bitterly: "There is a new group of investors coming...
...down to just over 200,000. One reason is the development of powerful tranquilizers like Thorazine, which make outpatient treatment more feasible. The second is an increasing belief that institutionalization is harmful to mental patients. The third is the soaring cost of medical care. Now, says Dr. Bertram Brown, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, "we are moving away from the large state or county facility and going to the concept of the community health center." With the help of federal funds, 500 such centers have been built in the last decade and another 100 privately supported ones...