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Perched atop the service elevator in Acapulco's pyramidal Princess Hotel, Repairman Lidio Sandoval was performing a routine maintenance check one morning last week, when suddenly the car began to rise. To his surprise, it ascended all the way to the forbidden 20th-floor penthouse, which elevators could reach only if summoned by a special key. Peering unseen through an open panel in the ceiling, he watched in fascination as a drama unfolded in the car below. Anxious aides and a doctor wheeled in a stretcher bearing an old, apparently unconscious man covered only by a yellow sheet...
...Michael Ward, a resident physician at the University of California Hospital in Los Angeles, exemplify two reasons that a federal program to guarantee loans to needy students is in deep trouble. Ponce borrowed $1,500 from a trade school that offered to teach him to become a TV repairman, but dropped out after two weeks because he found the courses too difficult. The school by then had already sold the loan to a credit union, which is now trying to collect the $1,500 from the Government. Dr. Ward and his wife Cheryl, a lawyer, declared themselves bankrupt...
...utter futility of gaining male sympathy for the plight of a raped woman was brought home to me forcefully a year ago when my one-legged sister was raped in her own kitchen by a supposed telephone repairman...
...bribes in an effort to get his Vietnamese wife and her six children out of the country. Another was former Serviceman Kenneth Cowan, who had left his wife and three children in Saigon when his tour of duty in Viet Nam ended two years ago. Now a helicopter repairman in Redondo Beach, Calif, Cowan took a month's leave from his job, sold his car, diving equipment and drums and flew back to Saigon to rescue his family. "My wife was worried about what the Communists might do to mixed kids," he said. "I just had to get them...
...trademark, a store label and a launderer's stamp. The manufacturer was able to pinpoint a store in Philadelphia where the garment had been sold. The dry cleaner was quickly found; only three blocks away lived the shirt's owner, Joseph Kallinger, 38, a shoe repairman who, with his wife Elizabeth, 40, and their five children occupied a house in the working-class Kensington area of Philadelphia. On the bottom floor of the house was a shoe repair shop that Kallinger owned and operated. True, Kallinger's name was misspelled on the shirt. But that...