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SIDNEY KRANDALL & SONS JEWELERS
85th ANNIVERSARYALE

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e're celebrating 85 years in business with 20 dazzling days of savings.
Everything in the store is on sale!* Come save 30% to 60% on millions of dollars
worth of rings, earrings, pendants, bracelets, watches, rubies, diamonds, sapphires,
gold, platinum and more. Don't miss Krandall's 85th Anniversary Sale.
It's our Happiest Anniversary ever!

SAVE 30% - 60% April 29 - May 18

bring in this ad and get an additional 8.5% off the sale price!

Monday - Friday 9:30am - 6:00pm • Thursday 9:30am - 9:00pm • Saturday 9:30am - 5:00pm

FOURTH

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JEWELERS

755 West Big Beaver • Troy, Michigan 48084-0072
Main Floor, Top of Troy Tower • 1-1/4 Mile East of the Somerset Collection

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*Special orders and David Yuman excluded.

(810) 362-4500

Private entrance
entrance .Lnd free private parking.

VARIATIONS

Variations is now open to the public

We have been manufacturing custom furniture & cabinets for
over 25 years exclusively for retail stores and designers. Nov
you can deal directly with us and save yourself up to 60%.

1204 S. WOODWARD AVENUE
ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN 48067

SPRING DECORATING
EXTRAVAGANZA

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Take advantage of our "Full Room" Special
March 11 thru April 30, 1996. Purchase two
or more of the following and save 25%:
Wallpaper — Fabric — Window Blinds
Custom Drapery — Custom Slip Covers
25°A) OFF - 25% OFF - 25% OFF - 25% OFF

Specializing In

(810) 548-9515

• Home Theaters • Wall Units • Bookcases • Offices
• Bedrooms • Custom Bars • Vanities • Dining Rooms
Computer Work Stations • Occasional Tables

We Deliver and Install
Please call for an appointment

Ph. (810) 684-1221

Fx. (810) 685-8044

Milford, Michigan

(CLOSET COMPANY)

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Foremost in Design, Installation and Service

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and win lots of money. If it hap-
pens today, it's because the vic-
tim is afraid.
"People call us today and com-
plain about a teacher's slur or
not getting time off for the holi-
days. Today, they demand we
get involved. Thirty years ago,
they wouldn't even call."
Mr. Lobenthal and ADL ac-
cept partial credit for that evo-
lution. The agency has helped
write Michigan's laws regulat-
ing paramilitary groups, con-
sumer protection and ethnic
intimidation, and Mr. Lobenthal
serves as a co-chair of the state's
bias crimes task force.
He says he loves a lot of things
about his job, especially pro-
gramming and helping people.
He calls it "an opportunity every
day to affirm my own humanity
by making a difference to peo-
ple."
But he fears he represents
"the roll-top desk, quill pen" era
when. fund-raising was just
emerging. With 28-30 regional
offices that need to be expen-
sively computer-linked, fund-
raising is more critical today,
and he believes the ADL needs
someone who can automate the
Michigan office.
And, after 37 years, 'there are
things I don't want to do any-
more. You sort of begin to know
it's time" to move on.
Mr. Lobenthal describes him-
self as the gadfly of national
ADL. His seniority and local
base have allowed him to
fight against national ADL de-
cisions, "frequently without del-
icacy."
But local ADL president Dr.
Leonard Sahn describes Mr.
Lobenthal as "one of those
charismatic, bigger-than-life peo-
ple" whose major legacy is de-
veloping and giving lay
leadership the independence and
support to get things done.
"We would do a program be-
cause it needed to be done, and
look for the funding afterward,"
Dr. Sahn said. "Dick's media
presence, his integrity in not
compromising his principles of
honesty and forthrightness,
brought stature to the ADL of-
fice."
Mr. Lobenthal was honored
this week with the Ecumenical
Institute's Dove Award, and
ADL is planning an affair in his
honor in the fall.
Meanwhile, his fantasy is for
"somebody to call up and ask me
to write a newspaper or maga-
zine column, or be a talk-show
host."
This summer, he hopes to
start spending three-day week-
ends with his wife at their Flint-
area cottage, but he says it
will be at least five years before
they retire there. It's the place
where he "loves playing with my
garden tractor, tiller and chain
saw — all things that Jews don't
do."

