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...highly specialized AM and FM receiver rigged with red and green warning lights and an automatically rotating antenna. In a bugged room, its circuits will lock on to offending transmitters, its warning lights will blink and its antenna will point at the bug. Another detector resembles a small transistor radio, but the high-pitched whine from its speaker dies down as its whip antenna is swept toward a hidden bug. For those who do not want to bother locating bugs, a scrambling device concealed in a fountain pen can generate static in any radio-frequency bug within 100 ft., making...
...forests of Togo, one Christian Agbeze spends three hours a day-one hour down a mountain and two hours up-walking to the nearest village with a radio so that he can catch Voice broadcasts. Never one to let a listener down, VOA is sending him his own transistor...
Some 3,000 corporations from within and without Asia set up exhibits and began bargaining at Bangkok, but the fair's main purpose is to stimulate trade, even among sometimes warring Asian nations. Included in their offerings: electrical and telephone equipment from India, machine tools and transistor radios from Pakistan, tires and tex tiles from South Korea, lacquerware handicrafts from South Viet Nam, cigarettes from Laos and air conditioners from Hong Kong...
After the fall, Fairchild Chairman John Carter admitted that fourth-quarter earnings will be down. He insisted that "there will not be any price cuts"-a statement that many observers openly doubted. In fact, just as the 1961 drop in transistor prices was more than offset by increased demand, a microcircuitry price cut might be healthy. So why did Fairchild take such a beating? "Well," explained one trader,"there is one thing to understand. Even though brokers may know better, buying breeds buying and selling breeds selling. Panic here is exaggerated." Fairchild now understands-both ways...
...campaign had a lot of pizazz, a lot of sex," he explained. "I tried to turn people on, to show them that politics wasn't boring, or useless, or distant. We used every device known to Tammany Hall: we raffled off turkeys and transistor radios, held bingo games, and even hired go-go girls to wake people...