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...staff. He named General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole Jr., another J. Walter Thompson product and a top Ehrlichman assistant since 1969, will...
...said he could not write about government or politics, but he said he liked baseball very much," said Bulletin managing editor George R. Packard yesterday. When asked what will happen to President Nixon's son-in-law when the baseball season ends, Packard said, "We haven't looked down the road that...
DeLorean had been in that job only since last October. The son of a Detroit welder, he came to G.M. in 1956 from Packard, after that company folded, and quickly made a name as a crack engineer. He is credited by G.M. with such innovations as the overhead camshaft engine and the concealed windshield wiper. As head of Chevrolet, he set industry sales records in 1971 and 1972. But after ascending last fall to the group vice presidency in charge of all car and truck production, DeLorean became visibly unhappy. As had been his wont, he showed up late...
...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...
After long urging by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, the Pentagon is now moving to a fixed-price "fly-before-you-buy" system. In the first award in years under this system, Fairchild Industries' Republic Division, -based on Long Island, was picked last week to produce the A-10 combat support plane. Fairchild landed the contract only after it agreed to hold prices to $1.4 million per plane and its prototype won a "fly-off" against a plane made by California's Northrop Corp. If the A-10 continues to please the Air Force after...