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Surgeons have something in common with auto mechanics and TV repairmen, since all are devoted to curing ills that baffle the amateur. But the men who cut and patch and sew the human heart inspire awe even among cynics, precisely because they are working at the beating heart of life. That sense of awe and vulnerability lends Thompson's work a special source of drama...
...from bondage to the tyranny of the clock. Already the U.S., the pioneer in such matters, is losing some of its traditional reverence for punctuality. America's airlines are beginning to follow the lead of the nation's railroads in operating on almost Oriental time schedules. Appliance repairmen are as devoted to the mañana principle as Mexican peons: department stores promise delivery of goods in weeks rather than days; the Post Office makes the Pony Express seem like the very model of rapid transit. The wait for a dial tone or an operator...
...When women tell you that they're there because they love it, they're telling you that they're there because they're tired of doctors looking at their bodies like TV repairmen, tired of not having the skills they need, tired of not being able to touch other women," one woman said...
...quake at first knocked out all utilities-power, gas, telephones and water -in much of the valley. Gas repairmen laboriously turned off lines in 20,000 homes to avoid explosions, then faced what an official called a "monumental undertaking" to restore service. At Sylmar, telephone equipment was described as "just a jumbled mess." A major artery linking power circuits between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California will take 18 months to repair...
...part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year, one Manhattan insurance broker says: "No one ever loses an old suit in a fire...