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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most eagerly awaited inquiry was one launched last month by Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann, whose office regulates and supervises all national banks. After 35 hectic days, Heimann and a 40-member staff produced a weighty (7½ lbs.) three-volume, 394-page document. The report concluded that Lance had done nothing illegal in his varied dealings. But it also found that his banking habits "raised unresolved questions as to what constitutes acceptable banking practice." More specifically, it accused Georgia's Calhoun First National Bank of permitting "unsafe and unsound banking practices" while Lance was its president...
...called Carter at Camp David; the President thanked him "for this example of bipartisan support." In between conversations, Ford had been briefed for 90 minutes by Sol Linowitz (who had negotiated the terms, along with Ellsworth Bunker), and by Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the White House, Carter had former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger over for lunch and stressed that the agreement was part of "an absolute continuum of what you and [former President Ford] started." Kissinger, whose foreign policy was a major target during last year's presidential campaign, must...
...year he moved on to become New York commissioner of housing and community renewal and straightened out the state's nearly bankrupt programs in those areas. Heimann was an early backer of Jimmy Carter. Soon after beginning the investigation of Lance's finances, Heimann ordered his top staff to conduct "neither a whitewash nor a witch hunt...
...from regional chains that go by such names as Raceway (Alabama), Maverick (Colorado) and Fas Gas (Texas). What gasoline men describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las Vegas called Terrible Herbst that features 48 pumps, all run by a staff of two. The stations of the future, some oilmen say, may be somewhat like those run by an outfit in Brussels called Nafta, where a motorist punches his credit card number into a computer, then fills up his tank from an overhead nozzle. The computer then charges the amount...
...reads some potentially controversial stories before they are printed but almost never orders them softened. Over the vigorous objection of some Times lawyers, he ordered publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971, for which the paper received a Pulitzer Prize, one of 42 won by the Times and its staff since the paper was awarded the very first Pulitzer Gold Medal...