Word: sylvania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landon of Kansas, turned down an in vitation); Congressional Leaders Ev Dirksen and Tom Kuchel from the Sen ate, Gerry Ford and Les Arends from the House; Governors George Romney of Michigan and Bill Scranton of Penn sylvania, both top prospects for the 1968 presidential nomination; G.O.P...
...last float rolled down Penn sylvania Avenue, Lady Bird leaned to Lyndon's ear and whispered a word. The President turned and said: "Thank you very much. You are wonderful people, and you have made this such a lovely day, and we will try so hard to be worthy of your trust and friendship...
...tubes it buys for its sets, will become the sixth U.S. maker to manufacture its own color tubes when its new $12 million factory is finished. National Video, the supplier of Motorola's 23-inch color tubes, is spending $4,000,000 to double its capacity. Sylvania has developed a new color tube with a rare earth phosphor that makes it 40% brighter than others on the market. Last week Zenith introduced its new 25-inch rectangular color tube, which shows more of the transmitted picture, and Philco began pilot production of 21-inch color tubes...
...name was Kelly-Major Charles Kelly, of Sylvania, Ga.-but in the manner of combat soldiers the world over, his men seldom called him by anything but his nicknames. One was "Little Napoleon," because he was only a shade over 5 ft. 6 in. tall, had intense blue eyes and a shock of unruly black hair. They also called him "Madman Kelly," for during his six months in the South Viet Nam war, he flew more helicopter missions than...
...color television, however, profits are high and prices firm. Color sales rose by 72% to 750,000 sets last year, and RCA, the industry's biggest producer, expects them almost to double this year. Though Zenith, Sylvania and National Video Corp. have lately joined RCA as manufacturers of color TV tubes, high demand has made for a shortage of tubes that is likely to continue through 1964. Next year RCA will bring out a rectangular tube that will do away with the cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color...