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...difference between his research and ours can be seen by looking at a transistor radio. He was looking at how the transistor work. We're looking at how they're strung together," Hubel said...
...certain nights over the past two years, residents along a street in downtown Tulsa, Okla., have heard puzzling, ghostly wisps of guitar music floating up from beneath the pavement. For a long time, no one bothered to investigate, thinking perhaps that a sewer worker was listening to a transistor radio...
...cachag (a powerful sugarcane liquor). All too often, part of the bargain is also civilization's diseases-tuberculosis, measles, smallpox-to which the indigenous tribes have no resistance. All of the workers are under strict orders to give the Indians anything they want. One party handed over a transistor radio and later found it riddled with arrows. The Indians had apparently become startled when they turned it on, and tried to do away with the evil spirit inside. Another group of men had their heads shaved by Indian women, who used sharp leaves for the task...
Hogs for Stud. Businessmen have coped as best they could, often by paying premium rates for shipping their orders by air. Air cargo companies, which had suffered from the overall airlines malaise (see story, page 80), were doing record business, transporting loads that included heavy machinery, transistor radios, beer, and even hogs for stud. The only alternative for importers was to find a port just outside the U.S., where goods could be off-loaded and shipped by train or truck to their destinations. Ship captains are permitted to drop cargoes at any "port of convenience" in the event...
...sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After he was released he seldom came back for more. Prison then was a real deterrent. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. They have got television in prisons now and transistor radios in cells. There is a choice of grub and they get weekend leave to allow them to go home and breed more criminals." Unless "firm measures" are taken, the officers argued, the now safe streets of London will become as dangerous as New York's in five years...