Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like old times. There was Harry Truman ranting away in people's living rooms, almost as if it were 1950 and the old Zenith console with the round eye was down out of the attic...
...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...
...Turn. The industry nonetheless considers color's triumph over black-and-white inevitable. Holdout CBS has invested $13 million in new color facilities, and its nearly completed broadcast center in Manhattan has been designed to accommodate a full schedule of color programs. Zenith and Admiral, following the trend in black-and-white to smaller screens, are developing 19-inch color tubes, and several companies are experimenting with 16-inch sets. Most of the new tubes cast images on the screen at a 90° angle instead of the usual 70°, can thus be made shorter to fit into...
...White House press conference Well, if he didn't, it would certainly be the biggest surprise since the St. Louis Browns won a pennant. For Lyndon Johnson this week will mark the zenith of a vigorous and ambitious career. He will be nominated as the Democratic candidate for President of the U.S. The next night, on his 56th birthday, he will deliver his acceptance speech. He wouldn't miss it for the world...
What motivates a man most to become a director? "Prestige, pride, interest and a sense of participation," says Zenith Radio Corp. President Joseph Wright. Certainly it is not the lagniappe...