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...economy. Where most nations at war-including North Viet Nam-endure rationing and self-denial, the South has spent the last few years on a prolonged shopping spree. There are no meatless Wednesdays, no food queues, few shortages of any kind. Shiny new appliances, from electric rice cookers to transistor radios, occupy conspicuous nooks even in the homes of unskilled laborers. Television antennas rise everywhere, even over tin-roofed huts. Saigon's greenery has suffered less damage from Communist bombs than from the choking exhaust fumes of Mercedes autos and Honda motorcycles...
...FROM transistor radios to whole steel mills, the Japanese have been able to sell the rest of the world just about everything-except themselves. A "hate-Japan wind," as it is called in Tokyo, has been rising as legions of Japanese tourists and hard-bargaining salesmen swarm into the rest of Asia. "Once it was 'the ugly American' who proved most conspicuous around here," says a Japanese correspondent in Bangkok. "Now it's 'the ugly Japanese.' And wherever he goes, bribery, the kickback routine, dumping practices, golfing and sex crazes go with...
...authority of an inside tip. Just about any company that managed to get that magic into its name, or to pass the word that it had even a fringe involvement in the field, enjoyed a profitable play in the market. Since then, the speculative incantation has run through electronic, transistor, missile, computer and-in the recent franchising spurt-fried chicken...
...barely nine years after Joseph Heller's Catch-22 bemused readers with loony proof that war is an insane farce, the somewhat similar propositions of Kurt Vonnegut can be read with mild impatience. Vonnegut is simply not saying enough. There is something mean and gritty in the two-transistor collective consciousness that asks, "O.K., O.K., the center cannot hold. Now what...
...Negro boy played by Kevin Hooks, son of N.Y.P.D.'s Robert Hooks. J.T. is trying desperately to grow up in Harlem amidst peeling paint, dank buildings, rubbish-filled lots and a way of life that is guaranteed to turn any American Dream into a nightmare. He steals a transistor radio, then befriends a decrepit street cat. He is set upon by two older boys determined to steal the radio from...