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...high building. There, in a relatively particle-free chamber, the spy satellites and other exotic space gear to be carried aloft will be given final checks in sealed chambers. Explains Engineer O'Gorman: "If we do the job right you should be able to take a transistor radio in there and not pick up a single outside signal." This feature is designed to prevent accidental interference during testing and, obviously, to prevent unauthorized monitoring of electronic transmissions...
Japan's Sony Corp. has long boasted that it is "the one and only." But that confident advertising slogan now is beginning to sound hollow. The company that gave the world the transistor radio in the '50s, Trinitron color television in the '60s, the Walkman portable cassette player in the '70s and the Watchman micro-TV in the '80s is in trouble. In 1983 Sony's sales slipped for the first time in eight years, to $4.8 billion, while profits fell for the second consecutive year, to $119.3 million...
...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...
...assets. It is bigger than GM, Mobil and Exxon combined. With nearly a million employees, it is the second largest employer in America, behind only the U.S. Government. Its annual spending of $17 billion equals about 4% of all U.S. capital investment. Its Bell Laboratories, incubator of the transistor, the laser and Direct Distance Dialing, is the world's foremost industrial research organization. Western Electric makes 80% of all the telephone equipment used in America, including most of AT&T's 827 million miles of copper wire...
Other products are even more portable and flexible. Intoximeters Inc. of St. Louis produces the transistor radio-size Alco-Sensor, which is being used for roadside tests by police in cities like New York. The $390 device gives a digital readout when the suspect breathes into its plastic mouthpiece. In July, Allstate Distributors of Marietta, Ga., introduced a coin-operated tester for use in taverns...