Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bind. She carried a $100-deductible policy, and her insurance company tried to get her to pay $200 damages herself by insisting that a three-car smashup was actually two separate accidents. In Memphis, a collision with a city bus cost Businessman T. J. Downs Jr. $114 in repair bills, but the bus company's insurer offered him only half that amount-take it or leave it. He will take it. "It would cost more than $57 to fight the suit," says Downs. "They've got me over a barrel...
According to Miss Gill, the University "would still have the right to collect existing rents, keep the building in repair, and treat the tenants decently...
...Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital, a 738-ft. bridge on the Canal des Rapides across which all the traffic from Communist China and 30% of the North's war materiel are conveyed...
Pleasure & Pain. Despite the $250 million that he is estimated to have in Swiss banks, Saud's pleasures have lately been somewhat curtailed. He suffers from ulcers and cirrhosis of the liver, has traveled from Beirut to Boston looking for doctors to repair his chronically overworked digestive tract...
While he was thinking, a Karafin story appeared in the Inquirer under an eight-column headline, warning Philadelphians that house-repair frauds were spreading. "High pressure salesmen" were preying on "unwary home owners." A spokesman for the Better Business Bureau was quoted as saying that "the only way to stop this racket is to expose it." Scolnick and Karafin again dropped around to see Py, found him convinced. Py wrote two checks, one for $3,000 and another for $2,000. Thereafter, Karafin stopped by Py's office every Monday morning for a regular retainer check. Over the next...