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...good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman was a Chillicothe schoolteacher who started a pet shop on Paint Street with a $1,600 loan from the teachers' credit union. Last year his company did $100 million in sales, with 152 franchises worldwide. Jim Whitman, the executive vice president in charge of recruiting franchisers, finds his best clients are refugees of the old order: the middle-aged managers and blue-collar workers laid off by corporations...
...right about reporting, from Truell's woozy bravado to the knowledge that a new owner may stride into the newsroom any morning and start counting paper clips. The ethical dilemma he presents is real too, though a bit overstated. Truell learns that the missing French microbiologist is on loan to China, working unwillingly on a deadly project. He needs to be rescued, and so does the world. His CIA contacts ask if Truell, who's headed for China, will take on the derring...
...aren't politicians real? It seems that once a person enters the political arena, he lives a fairy-tale existence [NATION, April 28]. In the latest episode, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's fairy godfather, Bob Dole, gives his old friend a sweetheart loan (possibly from campaign contributions) that most Americans would be unable to give their own son or daughter. Mother Goose couldn't write a better fairy tale. SANFORD DU ROFF Tarzana, Calif...
Does anyone really believe that when Gingrich is no longer in Congress and there will be no political repercussions for him, he will actually pay back this loan with personal funds? He should start paying off the loan while he is still serving in Congress. This would enable the public to verify that Gingrich is paying with personal funds. CHUCK ROBERTSON Morganton...
Inter-library Loan Assistant Wilson Gray said Playboy readership was not limited to library patrons...