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...armed forces, and alcoholism is a factor in the discharge of several hundred men each year. Alcoholism, in fact, is a far bigger problem than heroin addiction and other, newer forms of drug abuse. It is, of course, expensive in financial as well as human terms. A radar repairman lost to alcoholism costs about $10,000 to replace; the price of training a bomber pilot is around $200,000. Among sailors alone, the Navy estimates, the disease costs the taxpayers $45 million a year...
...bicycles, dune buggies, motorcycles, skis, boats, surfboards, waves, cars. The town has more cars per capita than any other place, more freeway miles and car dealers. Its dealers, even retired ones like Ralph Williams, are celebrities. "People here will go without food for their cars," a West Hollywood Jaguar repairman told me. It used to be said that some people did that for their children...
...their words. In contrast, Ralph Martin contributes an arch bit as a homosexual art collector who multiplies the confusion--and, in these days of gay lib, his ability to get away with a lisp and a swish attests to a great degree of style. Kazarus reappears as an immigrant repairman and Melissa Mueller shows up again as Clea, a second girlfriend whose exact motivation--if you're even inclined to bother about such matters after her most striking entrance--could be slightly troublesome. This time McCleary's set--an enormous funhouse of a room with hints of Aubrey Beardsley...
...program, though, has many jurisdictional oddities. Both a self-employed television repairman and a TV repairman who works for a company will have their incomes regulated?but by different bodies. The Price Commission will set standards applying to the fees that the self-employed repairman can charge; the Pay Board will draw up rules governing what wages the employee repairman can collect. Doctors may eventually be visited by those much-feared IRS agents, inquiring into complaints of "excessive" charges for operations or consultations. But lawyers who are partners in a firm will face no such investigations; income from partnerships will...
...Muskie], and in the last one, we brought up the subject of his temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...