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Died. Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, president and then chairman of General Foods Corp., a Wall Street lawyer who took over the presidency of small Postum Cereal in 1924 and began an expansion program that resulted five years later in the merger of 15 food companies, continued to develop ever speedier convenience foods (Minute Rice, JellO, Birds Eye) until sales reached $260 million at his retirement in 1941, $1.5 billion last year; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
...From headquarters in Norwalk, Conn., this global operation is run by a man with a famous name: Chester W. Nimitz Jr., 50, son of the naval hero and himself a retired rear admiral. Salty-tongued Chet Nimitz, who served in the submarine service in World War II and later got his technical training as an executive at Texas Instruments, went to Perkin-Elmer as a vice president in 1961 because he wanted to be nearer the salt water. When the company's president resigned because of illness eight months ago, Nimitz took the helm...
...clogged with logs, rotted pilings, flammable chemicals, oil slicks and old tires that it has been labeled a fire hazard. Adding to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the pollution. On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo Mayor Chester Kowal slid past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust, and a general rainbow of industrial discharge. The stink was overpowering. "Unbelievable! Disgusting!" he concluded...
...many years had Army Major General Chester V. Clifton Jr. commanded troops or made a military policy decision. Yet last week, in a White House ceremony, the President of the U.S. said of Clifton: "His influence-at least upon me-has been of the greatest value and, I think, the greatest worth to his country." The President then awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to "Ted" Clifton, military aide to both Johnson and Kennedy, who was retiring from the Army at 51 to become executive vice president of Manhattan's Thomas J. Deegan Co. Inc., a public relations firm...
...Muste, 30-year-old retired Presbyterian minister and a leader of the demonstration, outlined the group's demands to White House aids Chester Cooper in a 15-minute confrontation just outside the gate. "You can't have a discussion with 100 people," Cooper answered. He asked that a delegation of five people be selected to meet with him in his office...