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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much Time to Lose. Next, Halvard Lange took on his critics in the Storting. At a special session, he told the isolationist nervous-Nellies that Norway alone "is not and cannot be militarily strong enough" either to discourage or fight off an attack by a great power. Whatever Norway decided, she would decide herself; he would bring back to the Storting the detailed conditions for joining the pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: No Middle Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...diocese of Archbishop Czapik) priests read Mindszenty's last pastoral letter. It was also his answer to those who, like Czapik, wanted to compromise with the sons of evil. "After taking so many things, the world can still rob us of this or that, but it cannot take our faith in Jesus Christ," said Mindszenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY-: Their Tongues Cut Off | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...mind . . . The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be poleaxed. But this last extreme process cannot be carried out every day; and certainly not in the days just after he has been chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Finest Hour | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Everything is free for families who cannot afford private medical care (rheumatic fever seems to be most common among low-income families). But the hospital first checks carefully to make sure that the mother is willing to accept the burden of caring for a child at home, and that the home is not overcrowded or ill-kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital at Home | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...they have a long way to go before they rival the brain. A big calculator with 10,000 vacuum tubes may be a useful machine, but it has no more "intelligence" than a primitive flatworm with about that number of nerve cells. Lecturer McCulloch frankly admits that he cannot explain, in terms of electrical engineering, the brain's creative powers...

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

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