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After taking her final vows in 1932, Gabrielle's wish was answered at last; she was sent to the Congo. The next seven years of selfless, 16-hour-a-day dedication to the health of the natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into...
...well-known figure in the academic world, equally well known in what he called the underworld of New York's Times Square, where he and his Ph.D. associates had conducted widespread interviews. Apart from a passion for hi-fi music, he was driven by a 16-hour-a-day dedication to his work. Said his wife once in a famous aside: "I hardly ever see him at night any more since he took...
...TIME Inc., Osborne runs the Telephone Room and the Wire Room, both 16-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week operations. On a busy day, the switchboard and its 23 telephone operators−all, it seems, experts at tracking down staffers or newsworthy figures anywhere in the world− handle 25,000 calls. In the Wire Room, Teletype circuits interconnect all our U.S. and Canadian news bureaus, and a radio Teletype service gives instant contact with London, Paris, Bonn, The Hague, Rome and, soon, Tokyo. The Teletype systems add up to the most extensive private network in the magazine publishing...
...Jordan's Sari Aweidah, 26, a producer-announcer with the government-owned Hashemite Jordan Broadcasting Service, the junket provided his first professional contact with TV. Biggest beef: the "24-hour-a-day 'disk jockey.' It is just appalling. Perhaps that is because in Jordan we like to think of radio as a field where you transmit education, through entertainment...
...sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals a week, and by 1969 or 1970, the cemetery will be filled with the nation's honored dead. Before that time, presumably, an Unknown Soldier of World War II will...