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Meanwhile, while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...
...known and existing patterns of life, the opening words of their Manifesto-"A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism"-were by no means a description of an existing situation; but today, exactly a century later, these same words are more than completely fulfilled . . . And yet, the dangers latent in Communism need not have awaited the developments of this whole century to be fully realized; they were already there ... for the whole world to read, decades before Communism had at its disposal the world's most highly organized war machinery. At the outset. . . men failed to realize...
...there were traits of his which, as one looks back on them, become significant. He had a force of personality which was latent and which subsequent occasions would call out. He liked people, and he made them instictively like him. Moreover, in his geniality there was a kind of frictionless command...
...Price-fixing," he said, ". . . discourages production and stimulates consumption, and the latent inflation may do more damage when it breaks out later than if it had been allowed to run its course in the first place . . . Price-fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe...
Your analysis of the public's sober mood about Korea [TIME, Aug. 14] is all bone and sinew, no fat. What's more, after much traveling lately, I feel sure it is in essence accurate. I think I detect in our country a fine latent dignity and seriousness which I was frankly not so sure of a few months...