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...much of an invention at the time. The participant merely planted his feet opposite his partner, started churning his arms as if shadowboxing, while rotating his hips like a girl trying to wriggle out of a tight girdle. But it transformed rock 'n' roll from a noise on the transistor radio into a teen-age style. For the first time since the decline of the jitterbug, teen-agers had a new dance, and soon, at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, the famous and near famous discovered its uninhibited joys. Fashion reacted dexterously. To provide freedom of motion, dress designers shortened skirts...
...over the Soviet land mass for a considerable time during each revolution. Two or three satellites would pro vide the U.S.S.R. with communications day and night. This may be all that the Russians are planning, but a powerful satellite sending strong, clear radio propaganda mixed with entertainment to the transistor radios that swarm in every country would be a powerful and potentially dangerous influence. The J.S. could set up the same sort of system, of course, and so could other countries...
Meatless Days. With commerce largely under state ownership or control, consumers have to put up with acute shortages of almost everything from toilet paper to transistor radio batteries. Demand far outstrips supply of most foods; in much of the country there are three meatless days a week. But there is no hunger, as party stalwarts are quick to point out. "We can always go back to bread and beans," says one proudly. For all the shortages, most Egyptians are far better off than they were a decade ago. The lack of such things as radio batteries is in a sense...
When it was formed, the triumvirate pledged to hold a presidential election within two years. The date is now set for Sept. 1, but it may be slipping. The austerity program, which means far fewer transistor radios, TV sets, autos and other luxury goods, is not popular with Dominicans, and politicians on all sides are campaigning against it. Reid maintains that he favors elections this year, but there is a chance that he will try to postpone them for a year or so until his economic measures begin to pay off-and perhaps convince a few more Dominicans that Donny...
...dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag. And how about the poor Japanese traveling salesman who committed the error of parking outside the Aussie dorm-only to discover later that ?400 ($1,120) worth of transistor radios had disappeared from...