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...Defense, No. 2 man in the Government's biggest department ($80 billion a year, a military and civilian personnel of 4,500,000), he picked one of the nation's most unusual and successful businessmen: Centimillionaire David Packard, 56, board chairman of California's prosperous Hewlett-Packard...
Packard and William Hewlett, a Stanford classmate ('34), started the electronics company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with a $600 stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare...
...companies have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through their German subsidiaries...
...Along with four new vice chairmen: General Electric President Fred J. Borch, B. F. Goodrich President J. Ward Keener, Federated Stores President Ralph Lazarus and Hewlett-Packard Chairman David Packard...
...beat Hardin, Lawlor had to obliterate ate the Heptagonal record of 25:03 set by Harvard's Welt Hewlett over the five mile course in 1964. Hardin's 25:01 clocking also beat the old record and was 50 seconds better than his time here in the triangular meet with Columbia and Penn last month...