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...Lebanon. Nasser has collected the best entertainers in the Arab world, and uses them superbly. When Um Kalsoum sings We Revolutionists, the Bedouins in the desert are deeply stirred. One of the most popular songs among Arab kids is How We Build the High Dam at Aswan. Every transistor radio in the Middle East is a Nasser agent. When Yemen revolted against the Imam, Nasser sent them arms and transistors. Arab Communists who broadcast long, windy speeches from Bulgaria have not a chance against Nasser's entertainers...
...supplying 49% of the capital for a $16 million steel mill in Malaya. Matsushita Electric has started a battery plant in Thailand and an assembly plant for transistor radios and TV sets on Formosa. Japanese companies run a department store in Hong Kong and a toothpaste factory in Malaya, make gasoline rickshas in Pakistan and fountain pens in India. Altogether, no Japanese companies have moved into Southeast Asia...
...duty-free status had ensured it a higher standard of living than neighboring India. Teachers and minor government officials, paid nearly three times as much as their counterparts across the border, could easily afford such imported luxuries as Belgian sausage and $2-a-bottle Scotch whisky. Field laborers carried transistor radios, and peasant women dabbed their ears with Chanel No. 5. A steady stream of ships carried high-grade Goan ore to Europe as well as Japan. "All you had to do to make money," said one Goan trader, "was to type a few letters...
Zero Gate. To find out whether space radiation was the guilty party, Bell engineers hooked up a command decoder just like Telstar's and exposed it to gamma rays in a shielded chamber. It went out of action quickly, and the engineers traced the trouble to a single transistor called the "zero gate" designed to react to short pulses-coded zeros-in command signals. With the zero-counting transistor blocked by ions, the decoder could receive no zeros, and a binary code, which consists only of zeros and ones, is meaningless if deprived of half its vocabulary...
When this season's tourists deflate their rubber balls, shut off their squawking transistor radios and return to the cities, they will leave behind more than $55 million spent on food, lodging and recreation. Included in the take will be an estimated $3,600,000 spent gambling at the world's biggest casino, stretching four blocks along the ocean, with room enough inside for 20,000 customers (Monte Carlo's capacity: 7,000). By U.S. standards, that may not be much money, but for the average Argentine worker, who makes less than $100 a month, throwing about...