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...jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...
Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...
...farmers within a few miles of steel mills can buy imported barbed wire $40 a ton under the U.S. price. Five years ago U.S. auto exports were five times imports; today imports are nearly four times exports. Other consumer industries, ranging from fishing tackle and electric clocks to cameras, transistor radios, and generators are also running into stiff competition because the U.S. manufacturer cannot match the foreign seller, for reasons ranging from price to quality and delivery terms...
...ultrasonic cleaners, jet-engine nozzles and oil filters had to be thrown away when dirty. Now imbedded residue can be removed in minutes through the use of sound energy. The sound waves whip the water into millions of microscopic bubbles which burst against the material, ripping dirt away. No transistor core goes to its final assembly package without an ultrasonic bath to remove impurities...
...Russian, meeting an American tourist carrying a transistor radio, says: "We have those too.'' and then adds: "What...