Gray Shockley wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:55:04 -0500, Soliloquy wrote
(in message ):
(snip)
and a short-wave radio

When I first got to VietNam in 1968, I bought (at the 4th ID (M) PX) a Zenith
TransOceanic". I wasn't pretentious enough to say I got "intel" on it but did
listen to Hanoi Hannah and her male sidekick.

When I lived in San Francisco one day I noticed a homeless man selling,
among various knickknacks, a 1960s Zenith TO. I asked him about it and
he said he bought it in America and took it to Nam, where it literally
saw him through hell and high water. He said he hated to sell it but
needed to eat. He was asking $20, and I didn't have the cash on me. When
I went back the next day with a $20 bill, he was nowhere to be found. I
always wondered if that TO ended up with somebody who would have cared
for it as much as I would.