Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admittedly not what it once was. The swimming pool and squash court are no longer used; shoes left outside one's door at night are no longer shined by morning as they were when George Santayana was a resident, and although the famous elevator is kept in good repair, the building in general has been allowed to get a bit shabby...
Pricing its watches from $6.95 to $39.95 (for a battery-powered electric model), Timex ignored the notion of a watch as a lifetime gift and made it an impulse item. The company preaches that it is almost as cheap to buy a new Timex as to repair an old one, and urges consumers to build a wardrobe of different watch styles, as if watches were shoes. With Timex sales growing at twice the rate of the rest of the watch industry, it is a rare jeweler-and usually a "prestige" one with no need for the business...
Directors of the Charles Playhouse have also met with actors and the theatre's staff to plan radio and television campaigns for the repair funds, which one spokesman said are "immediately needed...
...Charles Playhouse has begun a fund drive to repair losses resulting from a $100,000 fire Feb. 22. The blaze, started by a short circuit, damaged the lobby and box office, but the stage was saved by the theatre's sprinkler system...
...Williams, one of the sponsors of the Administration bill in Congress, has long been associated with the plight of migrant workers. Last weekend he and his staff initiated a miniature Service Corps of their own by traveling to Gun Springs, Va. to repair three shacks in that depressed area...