Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Financing Lance's campaign Comptroller Heimann's report took note of a more serious violation: overdrafts by the Calhoun bank on two accounts opened to finance Lance's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Georgia in 1973 and 1974. One account was overdrawn by $76,000, the other by $152,000. Incredibly, the bank even paid bills for Lance's campaign activities totaling $78,000 and listed them as "bank expenses." The bank was later reimbursed by Lance. All this had been examined by the comptroller's office in 1975 and was found...
Teamsters and embezzlers The report found nothing to criticize in the fact that in March 1976 Lance's Atlanta bank landed the right to manage $17.5 million in Teamster pension funds for an undisclosed fee. It noted that, while Lance had helped to initiate the agreement with the Teamsters, he had not taken part in the detailed negotiations. Nor did the report fault Lance specifically for the Atlanta bank's willingness to lend one of the Calhoun bank's officers, Billy L. Campbell, as much as $250,000 only weeks before his arrest for embezzling nearly...
...state law, first passed in 1903 and amended in 1954, requiring students "to show full respect to the flag while the pledge is given merely by standing at attention." Last week Federal District Court Judge H. Curtis Meaner declared the requirement unconstitutional. But the judge added a cautionary note: "Of course, the student has no right to disrupt the classroom-to jump up and down, play a drum, sing a song, pound on the table." So far no libertarian has attacked this injunction as an abridgment of freedom...
...Caelian Hill overlooking the Colosseum, a lone middle-aged woman moved with purpose. Around 1 a.m., she paused in the doorway of Room No. 2, located on the third floor of the surgical pavilion at the rear of the block-long hospital complex. On the door she tacked a note handwritten in Italian: "Please do not disturb me until 10a.m...
Scrupulously observing the note on the door, nurses at the hospital did not discover until late the next morning that the man in Room No. 2 was missing. Instead of the frail, 105-lb. cancer patient, they found a wig and a pillow propped up in the rumpled bed. By that time, Herbert Kappler, 70, a notorious Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence in Italy, was long gone. He and his German wife Anneliese, 52, who had spirited him out in the suitcase, turned up in West Germany the same day and were believed to be safely ensconced...