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...Thomas Bertram Lance started work, after dropping out of the University of Georgia, as a $90-a-month teller at the Calhoun First National Bank, run by his wife's grandfather. Seven years later Bert Lance and his friends bought control of the bank, and the hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) country slicker from Young Harris (pop. 544) helped turn the area into a prosperous carpet center with his high-risk loans to local small businesses. He soon parlayed his bank connections into a paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took...
...tripled. Youth vandalism in Boston quadrupled in five years, while incidents of disorderly conduct doubled. There was also a marked increase in the amount of drinking in high schools and in the number of teen-agers under 18 found to be supplied with liquor by older friends. Says Bertram Holland, executive secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association: "Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 problem in schools...
...shift, pulls onto Mass Ave and turns on the speed. Cars block his way--he uses the manual light switch. The cars clear. he turns down Shepard. "Negative, disregard woman screaming." ..."Car 1 to' base...It looks like the woman was just leaving the party at Bertram with a friend...
...Maris' background, a private detective easily penetrated the cover supplied by Justice Department officials. Among other curiosities, the members of the Maris family had all been issued Social Security cards with consecutive numbers. Officials at Maris' supposed alma maters, John Bartram High School (Justice officials spelled it Bertram) in Philadelphia and Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio, had never heard of him. His Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When court...
...Christoph Bertram, director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies, the address was "a very important statement of long-term intent." Whether that intent can be translated into a less dangerous world, one in which human liberties will be enhanced, is not at all certain...