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...years and transforming it from a one-horse manufacturer of furnace damper controls into a $426 million producer of computers and automatic controls for everything from ice cream plants to missiles, Harold W. Sweatt, 70, finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer. Elevated to the throne was President Paul Barclay Wishart, 63, Honeywell's crown prince for eleven years. An Annapolis graduate (class of '20), the natty, articulate Wishart ran a Packard agency in Minneapolis until 1942 when he came to Honeywell as a coordinator of its war contracts. Among Wishart's plans for Honeywell...
...London residence. The 6-lb. 4-oz. child automatically received his father's secondary title, Viscount Linley, but while the Royal Family searched for proper Christian names, delighted London newspapers referred to him simply as "the Jones boy.'' He is fifth in line for the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and his mother-exactly the same position occupied by Princess Victoria in 1819, 18 years before she became queen...
...jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...
With an adequately offensive diplomatic police, the free nations of the West can destroy the Communist threat, the now arch-democratic former pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne claimed last night...
Even more important, there are few events as such in Genet's work, and even less power. What he offers are reports of events and images of power: a phallus in The Balcony, a racial throne in The Blacks, and a well-publicized murder in Deathwatch. Thus there are no powerful characters: only those who pretend successfully (the strong) and those who fail in their deceptions (the weak...