Word: sylvania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy forces in his delegation; still, stubborn Bob Meyner refused to make any public endorsements. In California, Kennedy advance men helped fan reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked out of his 81 first-ballot favorite-son votes. Penn sylvania's Governor David Lawrence (81 votes) kept his silence. Kennedy-minded Lawrence watchers thought that they read a new Kennedy gleam in his eye, but Lyndon Johnson's forces began claiming 27 Pennsylvania votes...
...Power pulled his biggest coup by arranging a merger with Sylvania Electric Products Inc. Sylvania's stock had a higher book value than General's, but Power picked it up in a bargain share-for-share trade, took over the helm of the merged companies. The acquisition not only gave General Telephone the scientists and engineers (3,000) that it needed for basic research, but a big manufacturing business...