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...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...
Addicted to quality, Sony has done as much as any company to demolish the cheap and imitative image of Japanese goods, and is being widely imitated it self. An Italian manufacturer for a while sold .a Sony-looking transistor radio called "Somy." Back home, electrical companies from Mitsubishi to Matsu shita this year rushed out portable TV sets to compete with Sony's battery-powered, transistorized models, which come with 5-in. or 8-in. screens and weigh only 8 Ibs. General Electric also started thinking small, last month introduced an 11 -in. plug-in TV set listed...
...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...