Word: transistor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalions rolled along twisting roads into the mountain town of Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops' approach. But each side was unwilling to be the one to touch off a civil...
...over twenty Harvard men armed with transistor radios, soda pop, peanut butter and rum were huddled on the porch. They had had visits from the police ("Just like lining up for theatre tickets, huh?"), eight town girls ("What're you guys doing up there?"), four young men from Cambridge in a car who threw eggs, and two freshman, deans. The students started a list of arrivees which was used as a guide by section men in the morning...
Bleached-blond Boy with bangs meets beach-bound Girl with bikini. They stow their surfboards in his "woodie" (a vintage paneled station wagon) and take off for Malibu. En route, a transistor radio beats out the tune that has been topping the charts nationwide, Jan and Dean's Surf City...
First hydrofoil craft to enter regular commuter service in the U.S. is the good ship Albatross, which last week made her maiden voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
...sales into research, and is quick to add its own twist to what others invent. Brags Ibuka: "We have always been the first to see the possibilities in any new discovery and translate it into practical, useful items." After U.S. scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the transistor, Sony became the first non-U.S. company to make transistor radios. Older and bigger Japanese companies soon began competing with the upstart, but Sony held its own by successfully invading the U.S. market despite a 12.5% tariff...