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...orbit from an apogee of 1,074 miles to a perigee of 134 miles. The Soviets declared it was not one of theirs. U.S. spacemen said it was not one of theirs. Was it an enemy's "seeing-eye" space station (as retired Army Lieut. General James Gavin darkly suggested), or a curious visitor from outer space? No one knew for sure. Best guess: it was a harmless piece of space "garbage"-perhaps a spent final stage from some past satellite -and it will stay up there to tantalize scientists for several months more...
...other speakers at the weekend conference were Lt.Gen. James M. Gavin(ret.), and James F. Crow, professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin. The harmful radiation effects of nuclear testing, Crow stated, are not negligible, but are sufficiently distributed over the earth so that testing, if politically necessary, can be continued...
...Freshman touch football, Chuck Mercer and Gavin Gilmore paced Grays Hall American League champs to first place over the National and Continental League pennant winners...
From such clues, students have proposed dozens of alternative routes. In Alps and Elephants, published in 1955, Britain's Sir Gavin de Beer casts his vote for the Col de la Traversette, but analyzes 30 different books that have proposed no fewer than twelve different Alpine passes for Hannibal's crossing. The most popular ones: Mont Genevre, Mont Cenis (Napoleon's theory), and the treacherous Col Clapier. Last week a pint-sized re-creation of Hannibal's horde wound its way through the French Alps toward Clapier pass, bent on proving that Hannibal could have used...
...Young Gavin often peeked around a boxcar for a glimpse of the old man ("nobody dared come into his presence uninvited"), rose through station agent to division superintendent at Spokane in 1916, the year Jim Hill died. Gavin kept on climbing, was made president in 1939, brought the Great Northern successfully through the trying days of World War II, afterwards was one of the first Western railroad men to modernize. In 1951 Gavin stepped out of the presidency and up to chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke...