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When Bert Lance made a long-scheduled appearance at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio last week, it was inevitable that someone would ask him the question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island...
...once hoped they would. If anything, they were intensifying. White House mail was running 2 to 1 against Lance. Various bankers challenged his claim that some $450,000 in overdrafts amassed by him and his relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black...
This case is not the only embarrassment for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., parent of the Bell companies L.E. Rast, president of Atlanta-headquartered Southern Bell, John J. Ryan, former vice president and general manager for Bell operations in North Carolina, and three other company executives have been indicted in North Carolina on charges of conspiring to force other company officials into falsifying expense accounts so that the money could go into illegal political contributions. The company has admitted that some 80 Southern Bell executives between 1971 and 1973 made contributions to politicians totaling $142,000. Ryan last week pleaded...
This procedure, allowing terminal burn patients to choose death, in effect, sooner rather than later, has been in use at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center's burn unit for two years. During that time, 21 of 24 patients diagnosed as "having injury without precedent of survival" have chosen ordinary medical care and an earlier death. The other three - all men characterized by hospital personnel as "take charge types" in their 50s or 60s - also died; the longest survivor lived seven days...
Miller has also boosted newsstand sales by featuring a show-biz celebrity on the cover each month. The August cover offering a guide to 500 Southern California restaurants, pictures Rex Harrison awaiting dinner with a salivating smile-and an uncorked bottle of Chateau Latour '69. That, in the kingdom of Gallo is class...