Word: sylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GARLAN MORSE, president of GTE Sylvania, Inc. (lamps, electronics, TV and radio sets...
...versatile cameras, developed by GTE Sylvania for military use, have light-amplification scanning tubes that provide night shots of daylight quality. They can photograph a man or record a license number half a mile away at night...
...Michael Court notes that "it would take three men to patrol that area over a 24-hour period. That's $30,000 a year, so in about 19 months we break even." The police force in Hoboken, N.J., plans to install a similar system by mid-June, and Sylvania reports that 50 other police departments have requested demonstrations. Thus the TV patrol may well appear in high-crime areas across the nation, peering through darkened stores and examining dark alleyways. To some, that prospect invites comparison to Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984. But Sylvania Spokesman Gene...
...proportion for Affluent Bedroom suburbs but hardly a significant minority. Here Nixon won-but only by 47% to 40%. The boredom quotient is higher; nearly half think that their community offers an inadequate range of things to do with leisure time. LOW-INCOME GROWING. These are towns like Sylvania, Ohio, and Billerica, Mass., with sizable populations of skilled workers, most of whom earn their living close to home. This tends to be upward-mobile blue collar country, where incomes are substantially lower than in the affluent suburbs: only 9% of the residents earn $15,000 or more. Still, four...