| Mom is now saddled with the additional burdens of becoming the primary breadwinner and household repairman. |
| Nowadays when your solid-state, instant-on color TV goes on the blink, you phone the TV repairman for an appointment. |
| One early participant, postal-meter repairman Ian Williams, signed on last year after he discovered he had diabetes. |
| He sold everything from vacuum cleaners to flower seeds, became a radio repairman and an accomplished pilot. |
| From hi-fi repairman to dub pioneer, he tinkered and reconfigured his equipment and, in so doing, redefined the role of engineer-producer. |
| Westermann's tough-guy pose was fostered by early experiences as a professional acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman and janitor. |
