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...throes of a belated industrial revolution that is boosting living standards, diversifying its farm-based economy, and will increasingly absorb the talents that the nation breeds. Since 1955, 160 new Irish and foreign-backed plants have created 21,000 new jobs and are turning out goods ranging from transistor radios (Japanese) and pianos (Dutch) to heavy cranes for a German company and oil heaters for a French firm. Fifty more plants are nearing completion, most notably a French-owned aviation factory to turn out a new, short-haul plane aimed specifically at U.S. feeder airlines...
Sony, the world's best-known maker of transistor radios, ships 700,000 tiny sets a year to more than 70 countries, and has helped to turn a generation of teenagers into strolling jukeboxes...
...field, he shares his tent with three officers and four enlisted men. They mess together around a campfire, sing sad Laotian songs or dance the graceful lamvong, while Kong Le, holding two pet hamsters in his lap, looks on. His possessions are few: a desk, a footlocker, a transistor radio (gift from the U.S. ambassador), and five locked briefcases, which he keeps under his bunk. Occasionally he unlocks one to take out not confidential papers but a handkerchief and a pair of socks, and then carefully relocks...
...magic word in U.S. industry is research, which has created everything from transistor radios to measles vaccine since World War II. This year the U.S. will invest a record $17 billion in research and development, or an average of $300 for every family. Businessmen, economists and scientists are increasingly worried that too great and growing a part of this enormous effort is now commanded by the Government. Last week top scientists testified before the Senate Space Committee that Government spending for space and military survival is diverting too much money and manpower away from the development of the civilian products...
...producers have created a kind of New Wave western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe...