Andrew Carlan wrote:

>Frankly, I was more interested in the campaign than the misprint from:
>
>>John G. Deacon
>>Pipedown: The Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music
>>http://www.btinternet.com/~pipedown

When my wife and I travelled through China in 1979, the trains had Chinese
popular music and what I suspect was verbal propaganda continuously piped
through the railway train, even into the private compartments, of which
we occupied one.  The volume could be turned down but not off.  It was a
24-hour trip from Beijing to Soochow.  Our Fodor travel guide suggested we
simply rip out the wires if we wanted silence.

Walter Meyer