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...studious, tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-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...
Gallantry of Course. Saints have traveled a gruesome gamut of agonizing deaths. Blessed Margaret Clitherow, a jolly, capable British housewife who had hid many an underground cleric in her secret "priests' chamber," chose not to plead innocent or guilty at her trial in 1586 so as not to involve her children or Anglican husband-though she knew the penalty for such a stand was being pressed to death. "She was about a quarter of an hour in dying," flat on the ground with a sharp stone under her back and a door on her body with "weights placed upon...
When Simone de Beauvoir is not talking, she is writing. Her novels, like her talk, run the gamut from just silly (All Men Are Mortal; TIME, Feb. 7, 1955) to brilliant (She Came to Stay; TIME, March 15, 1954). Her latest novel, The Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals), is not her best, but it is her most successful. It brought her close to a seat in the Goncourt Academy, fetched her the Goncourt Prize instead, and brought her a sale in France of 250,000 copies. Now that it is published in the U.S., it is not too hard...
...that neither Martin nor Hanson can easily achieve. The topics that come up in easy dormitory relations--where to buy an overcoat, how to select courses, where to entertain a date, how to solve academic difficulties or how to find a purpose in a college education--can run the gamut, depending entirely on which way the student steers the course. And, as one adviser said, "I've never given any so-called advice during office hours...
...classified emergencies under five loose-fitting categories, running the crisis gamut from a state of prevention ("when perturbation of public order is imminent") to out-and-out war. The various states of emergency can be declared by simple executive decree in all categories except war (which requires a congressional vote). Faced by the mildest disturbance, the President can dissolve political parties, order troops to fire on demonstrators, permit police to enter homes without warrants, force newspapers to accept censorship or shut down...