Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent to which the repair business is thriving in Cambridge is reflected by the number of used part junkyards and body shops close by--the yellow pages list over 50 of them in Cambridge and Somerville alone. A sizeable number of these are clumped closely together in a three-block area along Columbia and Webster streets right on the Cambridge-Somerville line...
...race day, three of the original 1,200 horses were recognized favorites: Chick Called Sue, owned by Texas Trial Lawyer Aubrey Stokes; Rocket's Magic, belonging to Louisiana Fish Merchant Bill Thomas; and Bugs Alive, a filly bred by Ralph Shebester, owner of an Oklahoma oil rig repair company. In the starting gate, the three favorites were stationed side by side. Bugs Alive broke clean−a critically important advantage in so short a dash; Chick Called Sue stumbled badly; and Rocket's Magic quickly fell behind. Bugs Alive led all the way. "For the last 100 yards...
...even within the industrial sector, there has been an extraordinary change as automation has begun to replace both unskilled and semiskilled workers. The man on the production line is giving way to the man who watches the dials or the man who comes in, as a skilled worker, to repair the machine. Repairmen and foremen accounted for 75% of the growth in skilled jobs since...
...parts. Krokodil, the satirical weekly, recently ran a cartoon showing a farm worker running a lottery to get a spare part for his thresher. Pravda complained that harvesters manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk plant in Siberia are so sloppily assembled that more than half have to be fixed at farm repair shops...
Luis Guajardo Zamorano, 23, a cycling enthusiast and engineering student at the University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard...