Word: wishart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarlet-robed students of St. Andrews, who have the unusual tradition of electing someone likable and lustrous to represent them on the university's governing council. Hard by the renowned golf course, St. Andrews is known for its equitable violence of yore. Protestant Reformer George Wishart was burned there in 1546, and two months later his nemesis, David Cardinal Beaton, was hanged from the local castle window...
...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: increased concentration on electronic...