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...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...
...instructed to write confessions. None of their "confessions" were acceptable. On the fifth day they were handed "confessions" and told to sign them. Interrogators pointed to a stack of statements by company employees. "You're not a boy. Look at what we have against you." Back in his cell, Ruedemann noticed for the first time the sketchy histories of some previous suspects scribbled on the wall. One had stayed in the cell 17 days, another 23. Said Ruedemann: "Then I asked myself, 'What am I doing here?' " Ruedemann signed the "confession...
...Harm's Way. In Fayetteville, N.C., Elmer Haywood rushed into the city jail, locked himself in a cell, explained that he wanted to avoid being arrested for drunkenness...
...basic unit of the nervous system, said Dr. Hoagland, is the neuron or nerve cell. When neurons are stimulated, a wave of electrical energy passes along their interconnecting fibers. When it reaches the "synapses" where the fibers touch those of other nerve cells, it may pass the impulse along. Or it may not. This "yes-or-no" response of the neurons, Dr. Hoagland believes, is the basis of brain operation. Certain calculating machines work the same way, their vacuum tubes or relays responding or not to the electrical impulses that reach 'them...
...brain's most baffling qualities-memory-began to be explained, said Dr. Hoagland, when it was found that many of the brain's neurons are arranged in closed chains. An impulse can move around the chain, "firing" one cell after another. When it gets back to its starting place, it can make the circuit again & again. These circulating impulses, thinks Dr. Hoagland, are the basis of memory...