Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more people find themselves forced to stay in older houses for longer than they would like. Sooner rather than later, pipes crack, paint peels-and homeowners have to face up to the often traumatic experience of calling in that new aristocrat of the U.S. labor force, the repairman...
Accelerating demand for the repairman's services has turned him into a big businessman; estimates of his yearly volume range up to $12 billion. His business is also the leader in consumer complaints, which are climbing almost as rapidly as the wages of carpenters, plumbers, glaziers and electricians. Typically, the Chicago Better Business Bureau last year counted 2,178 protests against the performance of home remodelers, substantially more than the number of gripes registered against the runner-up, the auto-repair business. Home repair is characterized by maddening delays, shoddy workmanship and startling expense...
...DROPPED OUT of Cornell and enlisted in the Air Force, where they trained him to be a radar repairman. The military being what it is, a man who had had to leave school because of language difficulty found himself teaching others how to repair radar for three years in Biloxi, Miss., followed by a year putting his training into practice in Greenland...
...When Antoine takes an undercover job in a shoe store and becomes infatuated with the owner's wife (Delphine Seyrig), the sequence and rhythm of the scenes are anecdotal. After a brief assignation-which gets him fired from the detective agency-Antoine takes another job as a TV repairman. When her parents go on a holiday, Christine pulls a tube from the family TV and calls Antoine to fix it. They spend the night together and write love notes next morning at the breakfast table. Out for a morning walk, they meet a trench-coated stranger, a specter...
...course, some of the blame for the failures of the bells system rests with the Cliffies themselves. Often a girl will not ask for identification from a repairman, or she won't check the whole ground floor before locking up. When the dormitory is locked, girls often prop open the door while they go out to mail a letter or return a reserve book to Hilles. These are all mistakes which by now should no longer happen, in view of the increase of thefts and tension over physical safety...