When Small Business Administrator Wendell B. (for Burton) Barnes, 45, was vacationing with his wife and four children near Jacksonville, Fla. a fortnight ago, Hurricane Carol began kicking up off the Florida coast. Right away, Barnes packed his family into the car and headed north. He reached his desk just in time. One of Barnes's major tasks is to make emergency loans in disaster areas. The morning after Carol smashed across the New England coast, Barnes declared disaster areas in six states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine).
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