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With competition from the A.L. playoffs this Saturday, HARVARD and WMEX are opening a "Transistor Territory" in the Stadium so fans can watch football and listen to the Sox at the same time...
...social level, the ex-colony's semi-Westernization has left it with some anomalies: tribesmen clad only in "ass grass" (leaves fore and aft hanging from a bark belt) push shopping carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...
...whole-earth experience." By whatever name, the grail of the great outdoors lures more and more thousands of Americans each year to an increasingly jampacked yonder where too often the awareness is of crowded humanity and the call of the wild has become the bawl of a transistor radio...
...Viet Cong troops. The soldiers, scrupulously polite and well-behaved, were mostly simple country boys obviously astounded by the sights of sophisticated Saigon. They posed for photos in front of prominent buildings and statues and, until the authorities banned bargaining, haggled with shopkeepers over the prices of Japanese transistor radios and watches...
...years after World War II, "the greater co-prosperity sphere" in Asia-once the aim of an aggressive Japanese empire-has been achieved by Japan Inc., a vast army of devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...