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...sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that it often uses for a primitive kind of conjugation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Original Sex | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...caulobacter, say Drs. Nemec and Bystricky, is a sausagelike object with a long stalk protruding from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Original Sex | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...counter skepticism, the U.S. State Department stepped in to confirm "a nefarious plot," and U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg reported that its counter-intelligence agents had discovered the guilty Communist, one Jaroslav Nemec, who works in the Czechoslovak consulate at Salzburg, Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: In the Salt | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Last week Cleveland's License Commissioner Stanley P. Nemec grumbled that his city's amusement tax receipts for the first six months of 1950 had dropped 16.6% (from 1949-8 $259,700.38 to $216,507.25). Said Nemec: "Theater owners . . . say the steady customers they used to have are staying home or going to corner bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Home & Bar | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Said Frantisek Nemec, the Czechoslovak Government's newly appointed delegate to liberated territories: "All of us in Occupied Europe were civilized people with national and human pride. Suddenly there came men who assumed the right to kill us like dogs in the street. That has created a very dangerous psychological mood. The people of the liberated countries will be sensitive, suspicious and unbelieving. It will require great understanding on the part of the Allies. . . . I, myself, go with the great joy of a man returning to his home. But I go with fear for what I may find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: With Joy and Fear | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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