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...from Washington, Chester Nimitz had studied the statistics of disaster. None conveyed so urgently the task that faced him as the sight that met the admiral at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Day, 1941. Where three weeks earlier the proudest flagships of the U.S. Navy had swung at anchor, only small boats plied through the oil slick, still bringing ashore the dead crewmen of a dead fleet...
...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...
...continue its growth, Perkin-Elmer searches restlessly for new products, spends $4,000,000 a year on research. Nimitz runs the company like a tight ship, believes that the Navy teaches valuable lessons about "the necessity and the way of getting a job done through other people. Almost any plan is a good plan if you can get people to work at it willingly and together." Perkin-Elmer's plan is to win for itself a reputation as a place that will design or make an analytical instrument to suit the needs of any customer. Customers have already gotten...
...more positive test of his imperturbability, I invite Jim Clark [July 9] to compete in the qualifying trials held daily on any of the San Francisco Bay area courses, notably the Bay shore Highway or the Nimitz Freeway. He will then be eligible to participate in the finals on the toughest course of all-the entire Los Angeles freeway system...
Married. Frances Mary Nimitz, 24, granddaughter of Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander and hero of the Pacific theater in World War II; and Edwin Gordon Johns, 28, Manhattan adman; in New Canaan, Conn...