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...birth movement." Birth control partisans, he complains, display a "quasi-messianic conviction": their campaigns employ "methods of propaganda and of subtle and varied pressure" that in effect deny couples real freedom of choice. Among the pressures, charges Villot, are material incentives; in some areas, couples are awarded gifts like transistor radios if they cooperate...
...source of such electromagnetic interference may be almost any piece of electrical equipment-fluorescent lights, the ignition system of a car, or even a seemingly innocuous transistor radio. And with so many sources, the interference is becoming more and more exasperating. Even the Government finds itself suffering from the technological pollution. Shortly after the Internal Revenue Service opened a new computer complex in Louisiana, part of the brain's memory suddenly went blank. Puzzled IRS officials eventually learned why. The center had been built under a flight path to the New Orleans airport, and radar signals from the field...
...patterned photos that have slits so that one can build a house of herbs and spices, spools of thread, Victorian English pill boxes or Chinese baby firecrackers. With his newest deck, the Computer House of Cards, one can build keyboards on resistors and capacitors or make flow charts of transistor heat sinks and wire-wrapped pin connections...
...doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen-agers flip through album after album. Prostitutes, panhandlers, winos and pickpockets...
...have now climbed to equality with other parts of the Common Market, and Italian unions are demanding that the same scales be extended to workers in the depressed south. One result: Societa Generate Semicon-duttori, the country's biggest maker of electronic components, is building a $1.3 million transistor plant in Singapore, where wage costs will be only one-tenth what they are in Italy...