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...week it had jumped to No. 80 in the so-called "Hot 100," and it is almost certain to keep right on rising. The song is from Baker Street, which has yet to reach Broadway. But the recording is already so popular with disk jockeys that every time a transistor is flipped on, or so it seems, out comes Married Man. This, without doubt, is because the recording artist, the nouveau ducktail of this display of flaming treacle, is none other than Richard Burton, who has no connection with Baker Street. He merely recorded the song to exploit his peerage...
Christmas was good to thieves this year. Comstock Hall provided some lucky second-to-fourth story man with three transistor radios, two cameras, one of them worth $250, a copy of The Kennedy Years, a box of LBJ matches from the election, a roll of stamps, and numerous other goodies...
...more of the world wide computer market now dominated by International Business Machines. In its most costly move since entering the field in 1958, RCA brought out a new line of computers (called Spectra 70s) with integrated circuits that it claims are faster and cheaper to make than the transistor circuits that run most computers. Next, it signed a ten-year agree ment with West Germany's giant electronics and computer company, Siemens & Halske, to swap patent licenses and technical data in a bid to compete with General Electric in Europe...
Anyone with a radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing...
...between Charles de Gaulle and Ben Bella, both in shorts and "bicycling madly in the Algerian velodrome, with Ben Bella winning." As for historical hilarity, Bousgarbiès said he could even stomach a current Paris revue that portrays Joan of Arc hearing those voices and then yanking a transistor radio out of her bodice. But tax-paid satire of Napoleon? "Scandalous," bristled the aged avocat. "I would be just as upset to see Joan of Arc doing a striptease or Clemenceau wrestling on government television...