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...Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...caper seems to have been executed with simple cat-burglary techniques. Sometime after dark, the thieves climbed a repairmen's scaffold on the west side of the imposing, neoclassical building. After scaling a 20-ft. stone wall, they reached one of the windows to the old masters' gallery. It was not protected by bars, so the thieves merely cut a hole in the glass, opened the latch, and slipped inside. The burglar alarm, museum attendants later admitted, had been out of order for three weeks...
Showing more versatility than flash, Brown climbed up AT&T's corporate telephone pole step by step, going through 23 jobs in nine cities. He became president of Illinois Bell Telephone in 1969 and earned a place in AT&T lore by making service calls during a repairmen's strike. After becoming chief financial officer of the parent company, he developed innovative ways to reduce AT&T's debt. As president, he began pushing AT&T forward rapidly in such advanced fields as fiber optics and electronic voice recognition...
College officials last night gave the first in a series of user demonstrations for 33 new coin-operated word processors located around campus, and explained both a refund system for machine malfunctions and a hotline for notifying repairmen of breakdowns...
...might have heard a polite but unresponsive recorded message: "I'm sorry, but due to a work stoppage, there may be a delay in answering your call. Will you please try again later?" The operators were on strike against AT&T, as were phone installers, maintenance workers and repairmen. In the first nationwide telephone walkout since 1971, some 675,000 members of three unions (Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Telecommunications International Union) were demanding higher pay and greater job security...