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...other Ford campaign officials who attended his announcement ceremony have reputations for openness and honesty. The finance chairman is David Packard, former Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and a multimillionaire California industrialist (Hewlett-Packard Co.). The treasurer is Robert C. Moot, Defense Department comptroller in the Nixon Administration. Moot said jokingly that his job will be to watch Callaway and Packard and "keep 'em both honest." The chairman of Ford's campaign advisory committee, Dean Burch, a former Nixon aide and political counsel to Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, noted that his eyes will be pointed...
Horowitz arrived at the morning appointment that had become a lunch date 30 minutes late, but took the time to lock his new calculator--an $800 model from Hewlett-Packard that can run a computer program--deep in his trunk, pushing aside neatly arranged tools and a box of his own microphones, still in his car since Yo Yo Ma's last concert. Horowitz tapes many of the cellist's concerts, using equipment he designed and built himself, as he has become good friends with Ma. In college Horowitz played a little cello himself--he was better at building metronomes...
Susan M. Carlucci Hewlett...
...Loravia is one of the funniest things to come from the Pudding--certainly far more humorous than most of the shows. One evening an informal party was held backstage before curtain time and everyone had a bit too much of his or "her" favorite beverage. As Roger S. Hewlett '33 recounted it: "When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero in a tree, cast kneeling before it on the ground--their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from the tree and lay prone on the stage, and when rescue came in was found that the chorus was sound...
...David Packard picked exactly the right time financially to resign as Deputy Secretary of Defense in December 1971 and resume the chairmanship of Hewlett-Packard, the California electronics company that he and his Stanford classmate William Hewlett founded in a garage in 1939. During his three years in Washington, Packard had put his H-P stock in a trust, which gave to charity $23 million in dividends and capital appreciation. Last year the 60-year-old Packard got the full benefit of a rise in H-P stock from 48 to 87; the value of his holdings zoomed no less...