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...week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again, this time to A.T. & T.'s Manhattan home office, climbed through a succession of tempering vice-presidential assignments...
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Spiritual followers of Jacob Hutter, a 16th century Moravian patriarch who preached literal obedience to the Scriptures, the Hutterites first settled in South Dakota; in 1918 many of them moved to Alberta to escape U.S. draft laws. They established seven colonies, or Bruderhofe, each with 50 to 75 members. As each colony became overcrowded, it divided its assets to set up a new Bruderhof...
...similar law passed by the South Dakota legislature in 1955 was voided as "too vague, indefinite and uncertain to be enforceable" (TIME, July...