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Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce and all that," says Anderson...
...didn't know anything about it until a repairman came running in," Cleemann said. However, the technician was unable to release the student...
...really sort of comic, because the Harvard repairman that was there was dead set on hot-wiring the elevator but was not qualified or licensed to do it," Pereira said...
...recently as 1994, Gao Feng, now 47, earned $100 a month as a machine repairman in a state-run textile factory in Shanghai. Then the nearly bankrupt firm laid off 300 workers, promising Gao 300 yuan a month to stay home. "These changes offered new opportunities," says Gao, and so he cobbled together $1,100 and enrolled in a course for taxi drivers. Gao now drives a shiny Santana cab for another state enterprise, and his take-home pay is pegged to his own moxie. On average, he says, he earns $240 a month plying his route from...
DIED. JESSE WHITE, 79, kindly character actor who appeared in more than 60 films and was best known as TV's original thumb-twiddling Maytag repairman; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...