Word: transistor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading youth-centered culture, America has a special allure for the world's adolescents, even those who like to burn U.S.I.S. libraries on occasion. Teen-agers abroad have taken to such Americanisms as picnics, transistor radios, blue jeans and the frug, and some young Europeans hit the roads as beatniks, much as alienated young Americans did in the early '50s. The U.S. influence, in fact, is sometimes a disruptive one in families abroad, where the desire of youths to imitate their freer American counterparts may run smack up against an authoritarian family structure. When Free University of Berlin...
There were turbaned elders hobnobbing with the transistor-toting set, and fully half of the girls were slathered with tinct pastes. Several had managed, by artful application, to conceal their lips; others made it appear that they were born with azure eyelids...
...haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt and listening to a baseball game via transistor radio. "Two to one, Kansas City," he says gloomily...
...area. They are also surveying and likely to win some multimillion-dollar construction contracts in the Mekong River development project in Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Throughout Southeast Asia, Japanese businessmen and local entrepreneurs have set up 35 joint companies, including steel mills, auto-assembly plants, transistor-radio factories and big iron, copper, bauxite and nickel mines...
...promotion for sponsors. Cousin Brucie ("I really believe everyone's my cousin") Morrow, 31, top rock jockey for Manhattan's WABC, has formed a "Cousin Brucie's Pillow Talk Club" for the station's 20,000 sub-teen listeners who go beddie-bye with their transistor radios. "They're my little itty-bitty ones," drools Brucie. "Kids used to go to bed with teddy bears," he says. "Now they go to bed with...