Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder of trucks and construction equipment. "It was there, under trucks, inside buckets, working hard," he writes, "that I faced the final contradictions, the ones that ended any hope of anything in my life ever being...
...sorts of items-TV sets, toothbrushes, light bulbs, oven cleaners, snowmobiles, power saws, mattresses and cosmetics. Cars still account for a sizable portion of the recalls: from 1966 through the end of February 1975, 45.7 million foreign and domestic autos were called back for inspection or actual repair. But in 1974 alone, 25 million product units other than cars were recalled, according to E. Patrick McGuire, marketing management research director of the Conference Board, a nonprofit research institution partly financed by businesses. He uses a Government definition of recalls that includes not only actual returns of products for refund...
...example, the Food and Drug Administration, which also has jurisdiction over radiation-emitting products, recently ordered the recall of 400,000 Panasonic color-television sets, almost 280,000 of which were in the hands of consumers. The FDA suspected the sets of being radiation hazards. To locate and repair the sets could cost Panasonic's Japanese owner, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., about $11 million, which is equal to Panasonic's U.S. profits for the past several years...
...that Connolly got out of his verbal battle with the umpires was a quick repair job of the entire fence by an agreeable Harvard squad and coach Loyal Park (who's probably agree to anything at that point as long as they kept the two runs on the scoreboard...
...most popular courses is "The Self-Confident Home Mechanic," designed to teach students how to repair light switches, calk pipes and fix appliances. One student, Blossom Gottlieb, 26, is taking the course so she and her husband can renovate their hot-dog stand in the seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven...