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...embryologist, that any chemical of sufficient specific potency as to suspend the normal maturation of eggs in the ovary can be free from adverse side effects. The absence of side effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial period. Some cancers have a latent period of 17-35 years following the irritating cause. It would be much safer to prevent the union of sperm and egg by the more conventional methods of contraception than to embark upon a widespread use of a pill, the full effects of which cannot yet be known. ROBERT RUGH New York...
Radiation hazards are multiplying fast today, but Psychologist Edward L. Hunt of the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco thinks that nature has not exhausted her defensive resources. He is sure that some higher animals-perhaps even man-have a latent radiation sense that might be trained to warn them against Atomic Age hazards...
...dialogue is never wasted chit-chat. Miss Hellman indicates that love has been over-advertised. In her work it never takes on mystical qualities or solves life's problems upon arrival. Similarly, talent by itself means little; accomplishment is a truer index. After a certain stage of the game, latent talent will not bloom and the magic turning points won't arrive. The author's technical refusal to base the play on a crisis situation is beautifully suited to this theme...
...Crimson sat by helplessly, Princeton and Yale battled for the first team championship in the history of the meet. The Tigers, who failed to defeat Harvard and Yale in the regular season, showed their latent strength by winning 69 to 60 1/2 over the host Yale team. Harvard finished third with 47 points, followed by North Carolina State (which entered just three men), 42 1/2; Villanova, 25; North Carolina, 18; Navy, 17 1/2; and Colgate...
Having mastered the lesson that Castro was a Communist from way back, the moral was drawn: Communism is congenital. It is not a political response to certain conditions, but a pathological state, overt in those who espouse it, latent in those who but show the symptoms (Agrarian reform, trade with the East, a vocabulary that includes "imperialism" ...). It is worth noting that the triumph of the congenital theory has invalidated the hypothesis that Communism is a contagious disease, spread by certain strong carriers like Che Guevara in countries with weak Constitutions. This development makes the solution of the problem surgical...