Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last May 1, both his wife and his parents asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for permission to go to Moscow to see him. With the baffling arbitrariness that so often characterizes Soviet officialdom, the Russians granted a visa only to Powers' father Oliver, who runs a shoe repair shop in Norton, Va. Powers' wife Barbara, 24, spent three anxious months importuning the U.S. State Department for help, pleading with Soviet embassy officials, even sending a personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev...
While workmen carry out their $1,400,000 repair job, Macmillan will have to find other quarters. He expects to live and work at Admiralty House in Whitehall, where a special Cabinet room has been readied...
Amidst such continuing danger, Chile sought to repair earlier damages. Government economists, counting up the cost of nature's month-long rampage, found that 130,000 houses-one in every three in the earthquake zone-had been destroyed. Total loss: $186 million. Damages to agriculture added up to another $70 million and to factories $34 million. Altogether, Chile's financial losses from the quake may read as high as $500 million, or about 5% of the nation's wealth...
...same time, wildcatters made their first major oil strikes in the Sahara. The big oil companies landed in Algiers, soon followed by dozens of smaller repair shops, equipped specialists and transport firms...
Clip Joints. In Detroit, a sign in the window of the Varsity Barber Shop an nounced: "We repair $1. $1.35 and $1.50 haircuts here for $1.75.'' Cowed. In Buenos Aires. Aerotrans-portes del Litoral Argentine canceled all flights to Santiago del Estero. where farmers, despite repeated requests and two near crashes, continued to graze cows on the landing strip...