Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week that several years on the back roads of America were finally coming to an end. In the network-news world of tailored suits and perfect teeth, Kuralt, 46, has long been an anomaly. Rumpled, round and slightly balding, Kuralt looks less like an anchorman than your average TV repairman. Earlier this year, when Dan Rather, 48, emerged from the jostling pack of contenders to win Walter Cronkite's job as father figure to the TV generation, Kuralt was not even in the running. Many viewers think he should have been. When he sat in for Cronkite...
...plot has remained. Repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is struck, like Saul of Tarsus, with a vision of alien benignity; together with Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), whose small son has run away from home to hitch a ride on a starship, Roy brazens his way into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here...
Cash or credit cards may be the accepted way to pay for services in most parts of the world, but in the U.S.S.R. the popular medium of exchange is vodka. Want a repairman to make a house call to fix the TV set? Pay him with a half-liter of vodka. Need someone to paint a room? Offer him his wages in bottles. Vodka is also the ideal gift for minor officials from whom a small favor is needed. Since vodka flows as freely as the Volga in the U.S.S.R., why do so many Soviet citizens welcome it as either...
Typical bonuses for persons with six years of service who re-enlist for three years: an Army infantryman $2,000 and an atomic demolitions munitions specialist $8,000; a Navy boiler technician $10,000 and a nuclear propulsion specialist $12,000; a Marine microwave-equipment repairman $6,000; an Air Force aircraft sheet metal worker $2,000 and an air traffic controller...