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...apocalypse has taken over Fenway Park. With the cutting 45 degree elements shedding a weird glow to this summer sport, fans sipped hot chocolate and pressed their ears to transistor radios straining to hear the outcome of the ever-more-important ball games in New York. New York went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 behind Ron Guidry's 24th win, and not surprisingly, the tight defensive play of the Red Sox didn't cheer anyone up. They are still second best. And there are three games left in the season...
...country cottage in the Aube region of northeastern France was easy pickings for burglars, who regularly made off with furniture, children's toys, sheets and kitchenware. After a dozen such thefts, Owner Lionel Legras, 50, operator of a local garage, fastened some shotgun cartridges to the inside of a transistor radio and locked it in a cupboard; he wired it to a timer that would detonate the shells 90 seconds after the radio was moved or switched on. Outside, he posted a warning: ENTRY PROHIBITED...
...that the only loot brought back from the quick war: most of the rebels had transistor radios slung across their backs, and music blared. Others carried small tape recorders. A few had weapons - Belgian or Portuguese automatic rifles...
Outside the French base camp is a hastily built row of canvas shops where the entrepreneurial Lebanese sell everything from cigarettes to transistor radios. A tailor sitting at his sewing machine says he is doing "terrific business" cutting and making tailored summer uniforms. One of the bestselling items is a spiral punk made in China and thought by the paras to be the best defense against the horde of mosquitoes. "C'est la vie," says a French trooper of the punk's nauseating aroma. "Better the smell than the bites...
...with impurities that give it a deficiency of electrons-making it a so-called p (or electrically positive) zone, while an adjacent area gets a surplus of electrons to create an n (negative) zone. If two n zones, say, are separated by a p zone, they act as a transistor, which is an electronic switch: a small voltage in the p zone controls the fluctuations in a current flowing between the n zones. In this manner, thousands of transistors can be built into a single chip...