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...seems an irresistible bargain. The folder that arrives in the mail offers to sell a $41.50 transistor radio for only $12.50, or perhaps a blender worth $49.50 for only $19.50. The notice is on official-looking paper of the kind that is usually sent out by claims adjusting firms assigned to liquidate the stock of a bankrupt company at distress prices. Every week more than a million similar notices, offering everything from Bibles to binoculars, go into mailboxes across the U.S.-and every week thousands of people bite at the bait...
...bosses who hire sons-in-law reap whirlwinds of the like of Daniel E. Hogan Jr., 46. After the marriage, Yaleman Hogan helped Father-in-Law John Bolten sell his small Massachusetts plastics company, start a successful transistor plant, sell that, and then buy into a string of small businesses that range from printing to Latin American Coca-Cola franchises. Their biggest purchase, three years ago, was Lestoil liquid detergent, which was doing well then but shortly afterward was hard hit by the entrance of the giants into the field; sales sagged from $24 to $14 million. Hogan, after first...
...Massachusetts Avenue groups clustered by car windows to hear the radio. Transistor radios were everywhere. Students greeted each other with "He's dead," and in the restaurants the few diners spoke in low voices...
President Paz has given land to the Indians; schools are being built. For the first time, glass is going into window spaces long open to the winds of winter. An occasional Indian pedals the stony paths on a bicycle. A rarer one carries a Japanese transistor radio. Signs of hope are scattered, but visible-much of it owing to President...
...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...