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...Lieut. General James M. Gavin (ret.), 52, onetime Army missile chief who quit his job in 1958 after criticizing Administration policy, was named president and chief executive officer of Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. (1959 sales: $19 million), the nation's oldest (since 1886) major industrial research firm. Gavin joined Little as a vice president shortly after leaving the Army, has been executive vice president since last March, will succeed President Raymond Stevens, 65, who will become chairman of the executive committee...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) William Irving Westervelt, 83, Texas-born artillery expert who recommended in the early '20s the modernization of field weapons finally undertaken at the beginning of World War II, retired in 1927 to direct research for Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Brattleboro...
...Falcon Foundation, a group of air-minded men and present and former Air Force officials, headed by Major General (ret.) Robert J. Smith, chairman of Dallas' Federal Reserve Bank, is financing 20 boys in three preparatory schools this year, all Air Force Academy applicants turned down initially only because of inadequate preparation. Eight current academy cadets rose through the Falcon Foundation's prep program last year...
...list in rank and position was Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has accepted Martin's hospitality three times (on one occasion accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson). Other guests: Air Force Lieut. General E. R. ("Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research and development; Rear...
...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...