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...coup. Quick to follow was Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who, like Marmon, reported for TIME on both the Viet Nam War and last year's Middle East October war. Prager made it to Cyprus aboard a 1,000-ton German trawler bearing two dozen newsmen whose transistor radios interfered dangerously with the ship's compass. "The old Viet Nam bush jackets are here in full flower," quipped Marmon as Prager and other journalists arrived...
Soon the sounds of fighting could be heard throughout the city. Residents of the capital clustered in stair wells, basements and other parts of their homes seeking shelter. Many held portable transistor radios to their ears, trying to determine what was happening. The radio announced total mobilization, exhorting: "Greeks! Arise and fight! We will fight the Turks...
...enough for William the Conqueror is good enough for us!" was the grande dame's battle cry against the incursions of modernity. As a result of her efforts, the farmers and fisherman of Sark pay not a farthing of British income taxes; neither are they plagued by automobiles, transistor radios and unemployment...
...story is told in flashback as Pip, now in his 50s, returns to a home town circled by trailers and transformed by "the telly and the transistor, the small car and the tourist agencies." The author's moral: They don't make small towns the way they used to. Delderfield died in 1972. But as long as his books flourish, nobody will be able to say that about the novel...
...newer ones of government and administration. The Suq Hamidiyeh, the city's famous central market, is built around the columns and arches of a Roman temple to Jupiter. Surrounding it are other suqs with countless hundreds of tiny shops offering everything from Persian carpets and Damascus silks to transistor radios. In the modern west end, tree-lined boulevards are full of patisseries, flower shops and fashionable boutiques, reminders of the days when Syria was a French mandate. There is little of Beirut's brilliant but plastic dolce vita atmosphere, yet plenty to suggest that Damascus and Syria...