
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200508
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT...

FROM THE it's-all-relative department: When Nolan Ryan, 43, pitched a no-hitter last week, he was hailed as a geriatric marvel. In 1960, 43-year-old Jack Kennedy's election to the presidency was hailed as a political marvel - because of his youth.

\ SAMUEL G. "Ted" Timberlake, a veteran member of the Giles County Board of Supervisors, likes to go painstakingly, irritatingly, over invoices at monthly meetings - a service for which he normally receives few thanks. The other day, however, he came up with a county bill paid to a machinist's shop that included $420 for six nuts and bolts. A mistake had been made; Timberlake saved the county $415.80. Any chance the Pentagon would hire him?

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