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Shifting back to the communications revolution, Humphrey said that the transistor radio "may have had more psychological impact on the world than any other single invention in the past century...
Uncommitted Crime. In Albany, teen-agers with transistor radios went from house to house advising residents to turn off appliances. The people of Burlington, Vt., in response to a prankster's plea aired by a local radio station, took 200 flashlights to De Goesbriand Memorial Hospital?where the lights only dimmed momentarily...
...ever, and there is no sign of their withdrawal now or in the foreseeable future. Living standards for whites have inevitably progressed with the jet and transistor age: fresh newspapers and delicacies from Europe abound in African cities; Belgian pleasure craft swarm on the Congo River of a weekend; a few theaters in each capital allow whites to keep at least some touch with European culture...
...demand for Italian shoes, Pucci pants and British woolens has lifted imports of clothes and tex tiles this year by 18%, to $853 million. Purchases of leisure goods-German toys, Japanese baseball gloves, French musical instruments and the like-have risen 20%, to $187 million. Electrical apparatus, notably Japanese transistor radios and TV sets, are up 39%, to $429 million. Among other gainers: Danish cheese, Swedish cars, Brazilian galoshes, Scotch whisky...
...truck companies are developing increasingly sophisticated new equipment. Chevrolet showed off a turbine engine last week at the Manhattan convention of the American Trucking Association, though the current high cost of turbines may delay their widespread introduction for some time. Trucks are now equipped with air conditioning, pushbutton windows, transistor radios, bucket seats and adjustable steering wheels. Most big trucks carry beds with innerspring mattresses for the alternate driver; companies are planning to add bathrooms, pantries and even TV before long...