Word: instinctiveness
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Finally it becomes instinct. There are probably less than five people here who can read a compass, but they know every tree in these woods. So drawled Guard Bill Garrison, 45, last week as he described to TIME Correspondent George Taber how the Tennessee mountain men at Brushy Mountain prison flushed out and captured James Earl Ray in less than 2½% days...
...color of the brush-a fresh break has almost no discoloration, but an older break is brownish. Garrison can also determine if a convict has a partner traveling with him by noting that a twig has been bent back or broken shoulder-high. "There's almost an instinct for the first person to push the branch back, so it doesn't hit the second guy in the face." Another sure sign that his quarry is a criminal and not a hunter, according to Garrison, is whether the person has entered the high grass: "No one but someone...
...scent again. Surprisingly, a runaway's best defense is dry weather, which can often blend all local smells together, making them indistinguishable to a hound. Thus when thunderstorms hit the Cumberlands last week after a dry spell, Don Daugherty knew by his old mountaineer's instinct that Ray's hours of freedom were coming to an end. "Rain washes out the forest," he says, "and makes all scents new and tracking a lot easier." But, admits Sammy Joe Chapman, "for a 49-year-old man who didn't know the mountains, James Earl Ray really didn...
They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...
...tickets are being distributed now, long before the June 14 event. Last year each family had to wait in line to pick up their tickets, before getting food. This is where the bottleneck developed. Koivumaki said because of the "herd instinct", entire families stood in the ticket line last year, although only one person...