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...Pavne elevator repairman tested the elevator within an hour of the incident and declared it safe...
...left the center to return for our exam, our car ran over an enormous nail on the highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...
...Feynman appears to have been unusually successful in selling his son on the joys of acquiring and applying knowledge. At about age twelve, Richard was the youngest radio repairman in Far Rockaway, an oceanside community on New York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon...
...computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build the Macintosh computer...
...clearing a little of the remaining wilderness in exchange for 160 acres of free federal land. For Carol and Marino, it seemed a risk worth taking. "Nothing belonged to us in Detroit," Carol recalls. "We had a trailer on a lot that belonged to somebody else. Marino was a repairman for the gas company in the daytime and a policeman at a drive-in at night, and I never saw him." Like the others, the Siks had no idea what they were getting into. Tires went flat, pickup trucks broke down, and trailers skidded dangerously down icy slopes...