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Automated bank-teller machines can be maddening devices, but there is one thing they supposedly do well: protect customers' accounts. Not always, apparently. Police are looking hard for Robert Post, 35, a Polish-born electronics expert and former ATM repairman who brags that he is something of a magician. According to the Secret Service, Post last year managed to make some $86,000 disappear from cash machines -- all from other people's bank accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Cash-Machine Magician | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...Blanca Stadium for each of Swaggart's three rallies. The free-admission programs presented Swaggart at his spellbinding best, even though the words of the non-Spanish-speaking minister had to be filtered through a translator. At the end of each sermon, thousands came forward to be saved. Typewriter Repairman Juan Pablo Campo, celebrating a previous born-again commitment, noted, "I used to smoke, dance, drink and chase women. But since I converted less than a year ago, I have won a good battle with the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Offering The Hope of Heaven | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Elsie's owner Phil Arkell initially called the restaurant's refrigerator company--which had worked in Elsie's Thursday--after seeing the smoke at 2:30 p.m. Repairman Ron Clayton said he knocked a hole in the floor to investigate and "smoke was coming out like a chimney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoke Disrupts Elsie's | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...West German government, but the others may have done considerable damage as well. Richter, who was already under surveillance by Tiedge's department, is thought to have worked as a control for other East German agents. One of those may have been Betzing. A onetime air-condition- ing repairman at the government's secret wartime operations bunker in the Ahr valley near Bonn, he would have had access to the layout and operations of the facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany the Counterspy Who Was a Spy | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...open his own taco stand in 1952. He now is a millionaire who owns three restaurants, five apartment buildings and a construction company. Says Dovalina: "I came to work a year or two and return, but you get used to the comforts of life here." -- Guillermo, 41, a furniture repairman, asked that his family name not be revealed because he is in the U.S. illegally. He entered in 1975 from a village in Michoacan, Mexico, and drifted north to Seattle, hoping to earn enough to start his own business back home ("upholstery or construction, senor, it would not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hispanics a Melding of Cultures | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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