¶ Lieut. General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, 52, was named chairman of Los Angeles' Topp Industries, Inc. (estimated annual sales: $5,000,000), which specializes in research-manufacture of electronic and automated devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performancea characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company...
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