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...back, where they are supposed to apply the three rules they follow in their own work: Recognize the risk, analyze it, then manage it. "A lot of people don't understand the snow," says Pavillard. "It looks beautiful, but it is very insidious, and it never stops changing." Janet Kellam of the Forest Service Sun Valley Avalanche Center teaches classes in which students are given all the information they need to make a sensible decision--the right route, say--in order to avoid catastrophe. "One-half of them will choose to kill themselves," she says...
Amid this typhoon of claims and counterclaims, Federal Judge Richard Kellam must decide whether the salvage rights won by the robot lead to ownership or merely a finder's fee. And perhaps a bottle...
...preference for legislation over political organizing reflects his view of himself as a lawyer rather than a politician; of course, it also testifies to the Byrd Organization's complete control of state Democratic machinery. Although Spong clearly represents a new political movement in the Old Dominion, National Committeeman Sydney Kellam, who has long been the Organization's chief strategist, still symbolizes Virginia Politics to Lyndon Johnson and his aides...
...quiet devotion to Senate chores gives him a handy excuse for staying out of Virginia's political struggles at a time when the Organization still controls county governments, the state legislature, and the governor's mansion. Last summer his allies soundly defeated Kellam's brother in a primary race for the State Senate, but he says, "I didn't do anything--I've set off a movement that will keep growing whether I do anything or not." The young lawyers who helped in his 1966 campaign are planning to move into politics for themselves, and "I couldn't stop them...
...Virginia, political fief of the late Harry Byrd for four decades, last week's Democratic primary elections indicated that the old Byrd machine might be rattling toward a final breakdown. Sidney Severn Kellam, a chief mechanic of the machine for 36 years, lost his political power base in the Norfolk area when five of the eight candidates supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses...