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...might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda of the Indian government...
...were more fearful of India's confiscatory taxes and stifling bureaucracy than they were of the petty restrictions of the Portuguese colonial authorities. Union would also end Goa's virtually duty-free status and the sight of peasant women buying Chanel No. 5 and field hands carrying transistor radios. Goan Christians, who account for 40% of Goa's 700,000 population, wondered about their rights among India's 304 million Hindus...
...build rocket launchers and satellite trackers. Scientific toys, regular catalogue items for four years at F.A.O. Schwarz and other big stores, are even bigger this year. Latest entrant: General Electric, which is aiming at the pre-teen market with a variety of advanced do-it-yourself kits (analogue computer, transistor radio, electricity lab). Two big sellers are Ohio Art's Magnastiks, a construction toy that utilizes a magnetic field, and Etch A Sketch, an updated and challenging version of the old magic slate idea...
...lead to "listener fatigue," a condition characterized by a desire on the part of the listener to shut the set off, even though he doesn't quite know what is irritating him. In larger doses this is the rasping, grating effect we are used to from the majority of transistor radios, for example...
...undercut, the action. In their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets his implacable doom with dignity...