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...whole experience was so frustrating, so painful that even today Robert Lindsey, 46, cannot talk about his trouble calmly. "Five months ago," says Lindsey, who works as a short-order cook on Los Angeles' industrial East Side, "I called a repairman to fix my 21-in. TV set." The repairman took one look and said the tuner was broken, a minor matter of $20 or $25. He produced a blank "authorization" for repairs for Lindsey to sign. "So I signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Five men have been here. Why couldn't the first man fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...says Mike Venanzio. proprietor of a small repair shop in Ambridge, Pa. "Every drugstore and five & ten, I don't care where, can sell radios and TVs at cut-rate prices. They don't have to worry about service. If something breaks down, they don't fix it. The people come to me. If I charge a decent price because I can do a good job, they get sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...tracking camera uses an ultra fast f 1 lens with a 22-inch aperture. The image is photographed on a strip of 55 mm. CinemaScope film about one foot long. The camera can fix the satellite within one or two seconds of arc in space and within one thousandth of a second in time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palomar Prepares High Power Camera To Track Satellite | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

...wrist from the House Committee on Government Operations investigating the vaccine situation. Charged a committee report: PHS was guilty of "unimaginative leadership" and lack of effectiveness in last year's polio-vaccination program and paid too much for vaccine-possibly because the manufacturers had got together to fix prices, a matter now under grand-jury investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pride Above Polio | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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