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...market dealings, conspiracy against the government-very like the charges against Cardinal Mindszenty. While Bishop Ordass was in jail, the Communists had repeatedly tried to make him resign his office. He refused. Recently, Lutheran Bishop Zoltan Thuroczy-who wants to play along with the Reds-visited Ordass in his cell and delivered a Communist ultimatum: either Ordass resigns, or Communist Boss Rakosi puts the Lutheran Church under complete state control, with a government commissioner in charge. Last week Ordass still held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: War on Faith | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...normal state, a nerve cell is like an electrical relay waiting for a signal to send it into action. When the signal (a pulse of energy from another neuron) arrives, the cell "fires." An electrical disturbance starts at its center and travels outward along all its fibers. When the pulse reaches the end of a fiber and touches a fiber of another cell, it may or may not "fire" that cell, too. This selective action is the basis of the brain's operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ten Billion Relays | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Fairbank does not see a swift end of the Chinese civil war if the Communists continue their present use of the "cell system." This method, necessarily time consuming, involves infiltration of certain sections by Chinese Communists who work to prepare the population of these areas to receive Communist troops, rather than to help Nationalist troops fight them. "By this means of warfare," Fairbank noted, "it will take another year for the Communists to get to Canton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Avoid Chinese Policy Errors, Fairbank Says | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...into the countryside. In the ghetto, the arrests continued. Among the Jews seized was Lazzaro Anticoli, one of the Black Panther's childhood friends. In prison, so goes the story, he cut himself, and with his finger dipped in his own blood wrote on the wall of his cell: "My name is Lazzaro Anticoli, arrested by the Black Panther. If I do not see my family again, avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Black Panther | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Political Paavo | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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