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...crew is as modern as the ship. Captain Raymond E. Peet, 41, an Annapolis graduate ('43) with a master of science degree from M.I.T., was one of the officers hand-picked and trained by Admiral Hyman Rickover to operate the nuclear Navy. During World War II, Peet was a gunnery officer in Admiral Arleigh Burke's famed "Little Beaver" squadron of destroyers in the Pacific. Later he was Burke's aide for two years, when the man who handled a destroyer like a hot-rod became Chief of Naval Operations. To get ready for the Bainbridge, Peet...
...Bainbridge will be antisubmarine warfare; the ship bristles with special torpedoes and rockets to hunt out the underwater enemy. But the destroyer is also armed with antiaircraft Terrier missiles, may be used as an escort. "This ship is really a task force in herself." says Captain Peet. "She's an elegant young lady...
...included the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, but nary a diplomat. I therefore nominate Robert Peet Skinner, a career Foreign Service great. As keen as mustard, Mr. Skinner at 92 is fighting for the return of an honest U.S. dollar...
...three hats. She is chairman of the Creative Plans Board, administrative director of the 300-man Creative Division, and takes a hand in the development of talent in the agency's training program. Even more important is a fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles D. Peet of Bronxville, wife of a Manhattan lawyer, mother of a son, 22, a daughter, 12. She and her husband duck Manhattan nightlife, spend most of their spare time at home with their family. Does Mrs. Peet find conflict in two careers in the family? "I get disgusted," she says, "with...
Died. Richard Frazer Allen, 66, vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...