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...first day's battle bulletins teemed with false reports of victory, including the claim of 86 Israeli planes shot down. At each fresh bit of wishful reporting, the Cairo mobs that were gathered around transistor radios on every street corner erupted in excited yells and jubilant dances. They chanted such ditties as "We shall fight, we shall fight, our beloved Nasser; we are behind you to Tel Aviv...
...years ago, Edwin Turner, a civilian electrical engineer in the Air Force Avionics Laboratory at Dayton's Wright-Patterson A.F.B., became convinced that a large antenna could be duplicated electronically by a smaller device. The solution, he felt intuitively, was a miniature antenna with an active, built-in transistor circuit. Unable to perfect the mini-antenna himself, he turned to other electronics experts for help but was told repeatedly that his concept was not feasible. To work efficiently, they said, an antenna had to be physically at least one-quarter as long as the wave length of its design...
...work, he has finally built several prototype models of the mini-antennas that Turner visualized. The simplest of Meinke's devices, which the Air Force calls Subminiature Integrated Antennas (SIA), consists of three stubby, pencil-sized arms, each at tached to one of the three terminals of a transistor. Combined with the electrical properties of capacitance, inductance and resistance in the antenna arms, the transistor forms a circuit that has a low resonant frequency and thus "looks" physically bigger to incoming radio waves. Using the receiver to which it is attached as a power source, it can amplify...
...girls are going to a local dance. Their mothers will call the chaperon to make sure they have arrived, call again at 10 o'clock to make sure that the dance has concluded and the girls are coming home. Other groups will walk together for hours, transistor radios swinging close to the sidewalk. They go by younger friends with a nod and older, rat, boys with a toss of the head. Perhaps they will meet next week at a dance. No one but a colleege boy does much dating, and he dates girls from outside the North...
Long is not the only one shocked by the growing arsenal of electronic devices designed to eavesdrop on their most personal affairs. The advent of the transistor marked the end of the Fourth Amendment's protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Electronic bugging has become so widespread that Congressman Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.) says nobody in Washington can be certain his telephones are private...